photo: Mana Kaasik
BIOGRAPHY
Katarina Jerinic makes photographs, maps and ephemera about built landscapes and the past, present and possible of particular places. Her solo exhibitions and projects include SPACES, Cleveland, OH; Baxter St at CCNY, New York; Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at University of Nevada Las Vegas; and a public project along the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, NY supported by NYC Department of Transportation Art Program and community partners. Her work has been included in exhibitions at PS122 Gallery, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Queens Museum, NY; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY; and other institutions and galleries nationally. Her projects have been supported by Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ; Times Square Alliance, New York, NY; Brooklyn Arts Council, NY and chashama, New York, NY. Residencies include Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; SPACES, Cleveland, OH; Baxter St at Camera Club of New York, NY; Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY; and MacDowell, Peterborough, NH. Her work has been discussed in Hyperallergic, New York Magazine, Washington City Paper, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and more. Jerinic has an MFA in Photography and Related Media from School of Visual Arts and a BA in History from American University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Through my project-based practice, I construct aesthetic and poetic responses to noticing the built landscape, approached simultaneously with curiosity, humor, and awe. I re-frame what is already there with photographs, prints, ephemera, and installations. I sometimes present these as objects in exhibition spaces and at other times integrate them into public places, depending on the conversation a project is having with the world around it. I make things that look like other things—a map or a municipal sign or a monument—and seem almost invisible, encouraging observation and connection. My work echoes what seems ordinary and familiar in the landscape and invites viewers to engage with the past, present and possible of our shared surroundings.