Adventures in Arting Podcast: Katerina Lanfranco

I'm delighted to bring you another episode of the Adventures in Arting Podcast!

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Today we're talking to mixed media fine artist, Katerina Lanfranco.

Katerina is a New York City-based visual artist making paintings, drawings,
sculptures, and mixed media installations.  She explores the themes of nature and fantasy. Her artwork
references cultural modes of representing nature to engage in a dialogue
between nature and culture, through the medium of visual art. 

“I make art as a way to think about and understand the world
that I live in. Questions that I frequently ask are: How do I make the
invisible visible? At what point, does fantasy become reality? And how do we construct
our concept of nature?”

“Collecting, organizing and fragmenting images
and objects from encounters with nature and everyday life are combined with my own
vocabulary of visual elements forming the fundamental activity of my art
practice. The three main conceptual strains that I explore are: metaphors of
nature in relation to culture, cultural forms of framing and displaying nature,
and how our concept of nature informs our construction of identity. Through my
work, I reference cultural modes of representing nature such as botanical
illustrations, flora fabric patterns, curiosity cabinets, scientific field
notes, as well as natural history styled dioramas and panoramas."

She studied art at the University of California,
Santa Cruz where she received her Bachelor of Art (B.A.) with honors
in Visual Art and in an independent major entitled “Visual Theory and Museum
Studies,” and did a semester at the Sierra Institute studying Nature
Philosophies and Religions while camping in the California wilderness. She
received her Master of Fine Art (M.F.A) with honors at Hunter College in Studio
Art, with an emphasis in painting. 

Her work is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in
NYC, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art,
the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) in Berlin,
Germany, and the Corning Museum of Glass.  

You can read more about Katerina on her website, her blog, her wikipedia page, and her solo exhibit opens at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in NYC on Thursday and runs through August 2, 2013.  I know that I'm planning to check it out.  I hope you are too!

On the podcast we discuss Katerina's career path, her upcoming exhibit, her life in Germany, what it's like to be an artist in New York City, and so much more!

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