Kate Knox is a NH-based artist with a focus on printmaking. Her intricate woodcuts and etchings depict familiar aspects of New England structures and architecture, and repurposes them with a contemporary approach. Dairy barns and wood buildings are often dissembled, mirrored and distorted to create surreal imagery.  Kate Knox will be demonstrating her approach to printmaking, including recent experimentations with photogravure.

She received her BFA in painting and printmaking from the New England College Institute of Art and Design in 2015 and is the 2021 recipient of the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant. Her mixed media work can be found in many public and private collections. The artist’s New England roots are evident throughout her mixed media work. Colonialism in all of its downfalls, the working waterfront – stoic and scraping, empty dairy barns still standing on pride alone. Taking all these ingredients from yesterdays living, Knox liberates them from their fixed traditions, their superstitions, and spins them into surreal illusions quite capable of anything. Combining historic mediums with contemporary awareness, Knox delves into the pitfalls and possibilities associated with trying to transcend ones personal, political and cultural history.

Knox currently teaches at University of New Hampshire, and the demo will be live from the UNH printmaking studio.