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ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is based in observations made while walking in cities and thinking through past and present of particular places. I intervene in and re-frame what is already there with understated materials including photographs, maps, ephemera, and installations which formally connect everyday surroundings to human and natural history. Through my project-based practice, I construct aesthetic and poetic responses to the experience of noticing and navigating place—approached simultaneously with curiosity, humor, and awe—and invite viewers and passers-by to do the same.
I am influenced by urban practitioners from flaneurs to the Situationists to current-day city planners re-using found infrastructure. Equally influential are the photographers of the U.S. Geological Survey and their contemporaries, whose images shaped a cultural understanding of landscape, and Land Artists, whose work is in part a response to those ideas.
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BIOGRAPHY
Katarina Jerinic’s recent solo exhibitions and projects include SPACES, Cleveland, OH (2020); BAXTER ST at CCNY, New York (2018); Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at University of Nevada Las Vegas (2017); and a public project along the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, NY supported by NYC Department of Transportation Art Program and community partners (2017). Her work has been included in exhibitions at PS122 Gallery, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Queens Museum, NY; Bronx Museum of the Arts, 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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