¡Katie B Funk! is an artist, writer, curator, and educator currently based in Las Vegas,
Nevada. She received her BFA from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame,
Indiana in 2012, MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design in
Columbus, Ohio in 2018, and is slated to receive a second MFA from the
University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2025.
Born on a Friday night under waning crescent moon in South Bend,
Indiana, she would soon get the chance to haphazardly construct a
double-bottled tornado maker in preschool - a project which remains a
pivotal core memory. Once a pile of Barbasol shaving cream was plopped
in front of her to play with in the early days of kindergarten, fates were
sealed, and ¡Katie B Funk! knew art was her life.
Since those formative years, she has scooped ice cream, patched and
painted walls, iced cinnamon rolls, ground coffee, art handled, slung
around Mid-western-ly huge platters of gummy prime rib, poured beers,
arranged flowers, fried a smorgasbord of finger foods, opened wine,
taught first years in college, taught first graders in an after school program,
arranged cookies, babysat kids, dogsat dogs, shaken cocktails, pulled
weeds, checked in cardiology patients, baked scones, and assisted in a
number of artist studios.
Her work oscillates between questions of the serious and the seriously
funny - what constitutes the perfect cheeseburger? Why does heartbreak
taste like iron and salt? Which episode entered SpongeBob SquarePants
into the zeitgeist? What does cardboard think about after it has been
discarded? Is she currently manic, or does she just wanna have fun?
Building a mercurial space in both the making and the made, her work
endlessly chases the spaces that allow for static work to come alive and
live work to stand still. Peering through multi-sourced lens in a cross
pollinated practice, she hunts the possibilities of
a tender construction through deconstruction, always making certain
to leave a light on down the hall.
Nevada. She received her BFA from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame,
Indiana in 2012, MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design in
Columbus, Ohio in 2018, and is slated to receive a second MFA from the
University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2025.
Born on a Friday night under waning crescent moon in South Bend,
Indiana, she would soon get the chance to haphazardly construct a
double-bottled tornado maker in preschool - a project which remains a
pivotal core memory. Once a pile of Barbasol shaving cream was plopped
in front of her to play with in the early days of kindergarten, fates were
sealed, and ¡Katie B Funk! knew art was her life.
Since those formative years, she has scooped ice cream, patched and
painted walls, iced cinnamon rolls, ground coffee, art handled, slung
around Mid-western-ly huge platters of gummy prime rib, poured beers,
arranged flowers, fried a smorgasbord of finger foods, opened wine,
taught first years in college, taught first graders in an after school program,
arranged cookies, babysat kids, dogsat dogs, shaken cocktails, pulled
weeds, checked in cardiology patients, baked scones, and assisted in a
number of artist studios.
Her work oscillates between questions of the serious and the seriously
funny - what constitutes the perfect cheeseburger? Why does heartbreak
taste like iron and salt? Which episode entered SpongeBob SquarePants
into the zeitgeist? What does cardboard think about after it has been
discarded? Is she currently manic, or does she just wanna have fun?
Building a mercurial space in both the making and the made, her work
endlessly chases the spaces that allow for static work to come alive and
live work to stand still. Peering through multi-sourced lens in a cross
pollinated practice, she hunts the possibilities of
a tender construction through deconstruction, always making certain
to leave a light on down the hall.
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