Kate Therrian

Kate Therrian is a textile artist, illustrator and graphic designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Newark, NY in 1988 and spent the greater part of her childhood outside of Cleveland, OH. Completing one year at SCAD and continuing on to Pratt Institute she earned her BFA in Fashion Design in 2012. Therrian’s work often revolves around the exploration of the human existence, its make up and its global reach. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions including Pratt Photography Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Pratt Photography Gallery (Brooklyn, NY, 2018); Small Works Art Show, Greenpoint Gallery (Brooklyn, NY, 2015); Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci, Macy’s Herald Square (New York, NY, 2011); Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci, Ralph Pucci International (New York, NY, 2010). She published her first book of illustrations worldPOWER (Oranbeg Press, Brooklyn, NY) in 2017. Her first solo exhibition Insides will be opening this August at The Emerson (Brooklyn, NY).

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Artist Statement

Artist Kate Therrian unveils human folly in its many manifestations, using embroidery, painting, illustration, and photography to reveal the characteristics that make us each unique and also the same.

In her first major body of work, Insides, she explores the form of human internal organs through the traditional embroidery method of cross-stitching. The series of anatomical thread illustrations reveals the complexity of these rarely acknowledged forms and examines our culture’s relation to mortality.

Therrian continues to explore this theme through sculptural work in her newest series, Dust, “family portraits” portrayed through time capsules of collected dust from the family home.

She has also published books of illustrative work depicting the redundancy of electrical plugs and outlets around the world in worldPower and the death of technologies through the years in Where Have They Gone?.

With a wink of humor and a touch of macabre, Therrian’s work often confronts human arrogance by exploring commonalities that reveal we are all part of a greater whole.

About

Kate Therrian is a fiber artist, illustrator and graphic designer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She was born in Newark, NY and grew up outside of Cleveland, OH. She attended Savannah College of Art and Design before moving to Brooklyn, NY in 2008 to attend Pratt Institute. There she received her BFA in Fashion Design in 2012. In 2016, she founded her graphic design company, Split Graphics, creating work for clients including The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pratt Institute, and Le Fermière. She launched her curatorial debut in January 2019 with “re/GENERATE,” a larger than life outdoor public exhibition in the center of Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. The series has become an annual installation every fall. Publications include two books of illustrations worldPOWER (Oranbeg Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2017) and Where Have They Gone? (Oranbeg Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2019). Her first book of photography FRESH (Oranbeg Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2020) will debut this February at the Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair.

Therrian’s work often confronts human arrogance by exploring commonalities that reveal we are all part of a greater whole. Solo exhibitions include “Kate Therrian: Insides,” Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY (2018) and “Insides,” The Emerson, Brooklyn, NY (2018). Group exhibitions include “Grass of Memory,” Pratt Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018) and “Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci,” Macy’s Herald Square, New York, NY (2011). Her work has been featured in publications including Elle Décor, Interior Design Magazine, and WWD.

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therriankate@gmail.com   |  @katetherrianbarron   |  @split_graphics