Kathryn Clarke-Garcia
Kathryn Clarke Garcia is a San Francisco based multidisciplinary artist. She often explores femininity and faith through her artwork, typically in printmaking or painting. Her aesthetic sensibilities are grounded in an appreciation for flat applications of color and finding beauty in the mysterious. Themes of memory, tradition, and religious practice are resonant in her work.
Angels in a Strip Mall
Kathryn’s thesis, Angels in a Strip Mall is a series of linocut prints that explore how memory can be distorted by grief and dreams. After losing loved ones, she found herself turning both to faith and films to process. Reimagining her memories and dreams inside of Blockbuster Video stores, this artwork asks how we can hold onto something as slippery as remembrance and explores her discomfort with how imagining loved ones as angels can simplify their memory. Images appropriated from Blockbuster promotional materials synthesized with seraphic apparitions take on an otherworldly tone, with repetition of form mirroring recurring thoughts of lost loved ones.