About

Found and collected materials are the main component of my work - graphic elements of etchings and physical building blocks of sculptures and installations. The practice of printmaking, multiplicity, and repeated action provides a way to aggregate all of the disparate bits together as I explore my role as an heirloom machine. Routine’s transformation into ritual and what is left from that metamorphosis is a defining theme of my practice. Eggshells, missed birth control pills, empty produce netting, tangles of hair in the brush, wilting plants, stained tea bags, old spoons are all fodder for the studio. When I became a mother, I found myself in this ritualistic madness, each day repeating the day before and hoping for a different result. As the leftovers of those actions accumulated on my kitchen counter, I saw that my life had become an open edition of same but different days.

About

Kate VanVliet (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Philadelphia, PA. She is a Director of BYO Printmaking Collaborative, a nonprofit community printshop, that she co-founded in 2010 as an artist collective. She received a BFA in Fine Arts from Moore College of Art & Design in 2007. She was a resident at Vermont Studio Center in 2017 and was the 2018 - 2019 printmaker in residence at Cheltenham Arts Center. In 2022, VanVliet co-curated Solastalgia: Redefining Home in Precarious Times, presented at SGCI: Our Shared Future, in Madison, WI. Her work is in numerous private collections. Public collections include The Free Library of Philadelphia, Zuckerman Museum of Art, William Penn Foundation, Bowes Art & Architecture Library at Stanford University and Moore College of Art & Design. She teaches printmaking at Cheltenham Arts Center, and offers tutoring at BYO Print. She is represented by Paradigm Gallery + Studio.