Resume: Katie Walker

KATIE WALKER
Greenville, SC



EDUCATION MFA - WITH DISTINCTION, Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia, 1998
BA, Studio Art, Furman University, 1992
Cortona Study Abroad, Studio Art and Art History, University of Georgia, 1991, 1997


RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2003 Drawing Instructor, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
2003 Painting Instructor, Tanglewood School, Arts Integration Grant Project
1998-2003 Adjunct Professor of Painting/Drawing/Art History/Art Education, Furman University

1999-2000 Adjunct Instructor of Drawing, Design/Color, Art History, Greenville Technical College

1996-1998 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia

1997 Painting instructor, Cortona, Italy (University of Georgia)

1992 South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, Furman University, Greenville, SC
Position: Assistant to Betsy Delacruz, head of the Visual Arts


GALLERY AFFILIATION
Sandler Hudson Gallery, 1831 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, GA
Hodges/Taylor Gallery, 401 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC


EXHIBITIONS
2006 Enamel – Small works, The Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
New Year Exhibition, Conn Gallery, Landrum, SC
2005 Florence Biennale 2005, Fortezza de Basso, Florence, Italy
“Plane and Simple”, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, solo exhibition, Atlanta, GA
CAA National Women’s Caucus, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 “So Big”, The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC

2003 Wall Tales, Carillon Building Gallery, solo exhibition, Charlotte, NC
“Grand Opening Show”, The Artbomb, Greenville, SC

2002 “From the Studio”, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
“Revolving Wall”, Artstuff Gallery, Greenville, SC
“Small Works” juried exhibit, The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC
“New American Paintings”, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
Upstate Visual Artists Exhibit, Spartanburg County Museum of Art, Spartanburg, SC
“Feminine Charms”, Artstuff Gallery, Greenville, SC
Anderson Arts Council Southeastern Exhibition, Anderson, SC
Recent Works on Paper, Artstuff Gallery, Greenville, SC

2001 Pickens County Museum of Art, Pickens, SC
“Repetition”, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Belton Standpipe Juried Exhibition, Belton, SC
SC Governor’s School for the Arts , juried/award, Greenville, SC
Anderson Arts Council Southeastern Exhibition, juried/award, Anderson, SC
Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, SC
Paintings on Paper, Coffee Underground Gallery, Greenville, SC

2000 “Immediate and Intimate”, The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC
“Art in the Park”/juried exhibition, Governor’s School for the Arts, Greenville, SC
“Recent Work”, One Main Place, Greenville, SC
“An Artist’s Space”, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Faculty Show 2000, Gallery 1, Greenville Technical College, SC

1999 Upstate Visual Arts Invitational , Wachovia Gallery, Greenville, SC

1998 Paintings and Ceramic Sculpture, Thompson Gallery, Furman University
“Abstractions” , Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Master of Fine Arts Exhibition”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
“MFA Open House Exhibit”, Cedar Street Studios, Athens, GA
“Works from Italy”, Main Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
“Paintings on Paper”, 56 Bydapeshckaya 69, St. Petersburg, Russia

1997 “Shine”, juried exhibition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
“Mostra”, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy
“ Works on Paper “, Augusta Place, Greenville, SC

1996 “ Lyndon House Annual Juried Exhibition “, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA
“ Exhibit “, Dogwood Cafe, Athens, GA
“ MFA Annual Open House Exhibit “, Cedar Street Studios, Athens, GA
“ Recent Works “, Augusta Place, Greenville, SC

1995 “ Columbia Museum of Art Exhibit and Auction “, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
“ Anderson Arts Council Southeastern Exhibition “, juried/award, Anderson, SC
“ Paintings and Drawings “, Dreamcatcher, Athens, GA
“ MFA Annual Open House Exhibit “, Cedar Street Studios, Athens, GA

1994 “ Recent Works “, Carolina Foothills Gallery, Falls Cottage, Greenville, SC
“ Southern Home Show 1994 “, International Exposition Center, Greenville, SC
“ Columbia Museum of Art Exhibit and Auction “, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
“ Artists on Exhibit “, Wittershins Bookstore and Cafe, Greenville, SC
“ American Heart Association Exhibit and Auction “, Hyatt Regency, Greenville, SC

1993 “ Art in the Park “, Upstate Visual Arts Exhibition, Cleveland Park, Greenville, SC

1992 “ Senior Graduation Exhibition “, Roe Gallery, Furman University, Greenville, SC
“ Annual Student Spring Exhibition “, Roe Gallery, Furman University, Greenville, SC
“ Cortona Study Abroad Exhibition “, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
“ South Carolina Collegiate Art Show “, juried/award, Anderson College, Anderson, SC

1991 “ Mostra “, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy
“ Spring Exhibition “, Roe Gallery, Furman University, Greenville, SC



AWARDS/OFFICES/
2005 La Nouvelle Bague Design Award, Florence Biennale 2005, Florence, Italy
2002 Open Studios Press Competition Winner, New American Paintings, Vol. 40, Boston MA
2002 The Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC, juried exhibit, Purchase Award
2001 Second place, Southeastern juried exhibition, Belton Industries
1996-1998 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Georgia
1997 Guiseppe Favilli Scholarship Award for the Arts, awarded by City of Cortona, Italy
1995 Anderson Arts Council Purchase Award
1991-1992 Irene Keith Studio Art Scholarship, Furman University
1992 Senior Art Award, Furman University


Commissions/Corporate Collections
Hyatt Regency, Indianapolis, Indiana
Marriott, Indianapolis, Indiana
Capitol Suite Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC
Alston and Bird Law Corp., Atlanta, Ga
South Carolina Genetics Research Center, Greenwood, SC
Halpern Enterprises, Charlotte, NC
Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Winston Salem, NC
Mariott Houston, Houston, TX
Hyatt DC, Washington, DC
Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Greenville, SC
Headquarters Plaza Hotel, NJ

Biography: Katie Walker

Katie Walker (b. 1970)

Greenville, S.C., artist Katie Walker (b. 1970) has been among South Carolina’s most prominent abstract artists for many years. In 2012, she was included in the South Carolina State Museum’s exhibition Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012. She also was selected for the 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial 2011and 2013 at 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, S.C. Her most recent museum solo exhibition was in 2014 at the Greenville County (S.C.) Museum of Art. In 2015, she was part of the Columbia Museum of Art’s exhibition Independent Spirits. Walker also has exhibited in Spartanburg Museum of Art and the Pickens County Museum of Art and History, both in South Carolina, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Ga., and the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens. She was represented at the 2005 Florence, Italy, Biennale, where she was an award winner. Walker was included in New American Paintings, Vol. 40, 2002, and the publication’s 2010 anniversary edition. 

            Walker has taught at Furman University in Greenville, where she earned her BA in studio art. She holds an MFA from the University of Georgia and studied and taught in the university’s Cortona Study Abroad program in Italy.           

Essay: Katie Walker

KATIE WALKER

by Wim Roefs

2007

Katie Walker occupies a space somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. She’s not alone. Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis and others have combined some of the aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism with the techniques of Color Field painting, especially staining unprimed canvas. 

Walker’s work also has elements of Minimalism and geometric art, without the hard edges and clinical feel. In the past, she has attached pieces of painted canvas on a larger canvas, “stitching” one piece to another by applying paint to the edges of the smaller piece on top. At that stage, Conrad Marca-Relli came to mind.

None of this is to suggest that Walker’s work is derivative. The references merely place her work in the tradition of post-World War II abstraction. In Walker’s hands, elements of that tradition take a distinctly personal and original form.

“It’s hard to pinpoint influences,” Walker says, “and I hate doing it because you get categorized so easily. But Marca-Relli is a major influence, and maybe Frankenthaler. I admire her work though, I think that my work looks very different. But I like to work with watered-down paint, like her, and I pour paint. I like Motherwell, too, but I don’t study him. In my small pieces I like to play with scale, like he did. The small pieces seem monumental because the shape in them is so large.”

“I like to use off colors, not directly out of the tube. I am intuitive about it but try to have one color activate the next color. I am very calculated, figure stuff out in advance. It’s calculated activity.”

Walker works with brayers, spackling scrapers and her hands. And she pours and squirts from plastic bottles, sometimes with two or more holes to create multiple streams, parallel lines. She mostly uses unprimed canvas, applying thin layers of acrylic paint, though her small pieces are often on wood, painted with oils.

Walker used to take cues from the natural world and landscapes, including rock formations. “My drawing has become so automatic that it does not relate to landscapes and such anymore. Some of the shapes are still there, but I no longer think of them as landscapes. When someone asks why there are circles attached to each other, I know where it comes from, but the work is completely non-objective now.”

For practical reasons, Walker also works on small surfaces, but she prefers large canvases. “I am not sure why,” she says. “I have a lot of energy, and with big paintings I can put my whole body into it. I think of drawing and painting as an aggressive activity. So in part it’s the process, the aggressive nature of painting big. Get up on the floor with your butt up in the air or stand and move into it like a boxer. I have no place to store those big paintings, but I can’t stop doing them.”

The Inventory: February 15-26, 2008

Red Light/White Light, 2006

Acrylic on canvas

40 x 60 in

$2,800

if ART

presents at

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady St., Columbia, S.C.

THE INVENTORY:

A Group Show of if ART artists

Feb. 15 – 26, 2008

Artists’ Reception: Friday, Feb. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sundays, 1 – 5 p.m.

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. and by appointment

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

For its February exhibition, if ART presents The Inventory, a group exhibition of artists from if ART Gallery. The show will consist of many new works by if ART artists as well as older pieces from the gallery’s inventory.

Included in the show will be work by Columbia artists Jeff Donovan, Mary Gilkerson, Marcelo Novo, Anna Redwine and David Yaghjian. Other South Carolina artists include Carl Blair, Jeri Burdick, Phil Garrett, Bill Jackson, Peter Lenzo, Dorothy Netherland, Matt Overend, Edward Rice, Tom Stanley, Christine Tedesco, H. Brown Thornton, Leo Twiggs, Katie Walker and Paul Yanko. Furthermore, the show will present work by former South Carolina residents Tonya Gregg, Eric Miller and Andy Moon. Also included are California collage artist Jerry Harris, Dutch painter Kees Salentijn and German artists Roland Albert, Klaus Hartmann and Silvia Rudolf.

Abstract in Nature: February 9-20, 2007

if ART, International Fine Art Services

presents at

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, 808 Lady St., Columbia, S.C.

A b s t r a c t I n N a t u r e:

Featuring

Washington Color Field Great

PAUL REED

and

South Carolina’s

LAURA SPONG

KATIE WALKER

MIKE WILLIAMS

Feb. 9 – 20, 2007

Artists’ Reception:

Friday, Feb. 9, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sundays, 1 – 5 p.m.

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

and by appointment

Contact Wim Roefs at if ART:(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

For its February exhibition at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, S.C., if ART, International Fine Art Services, presents Abstract In Nature, a group exhibition with work by South Carolina artists Laura Spong, Mike Williams and Katie Walker as well as renowned first-generation Washington Color Field painter Paul Reed. The show consists of abstract paintings by Reed, Spong and Walker and abstract metal sculpture by Williams. The exhibition opens Friday, Feb. 9, with a reception from 5:00 –10:00 p.m. and runs through Feb. 20. Opening hours are weekdays, 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., and Sundays 1:00 ¬ – 5:00 p.m. Reed, Spong and Walker are represented by Columbia’s if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., (803) 238-2351, which also shows sculpture by Williams.

Washington, D.C., native Paul Reed, (b. 1919) in 1965-1966 was one of the six painters in The Washington Color Painters, the first nationally traveling exhibition of Washington Color Field paintings. The other five painters were Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Howard Mehring and Tom Downey. Reed’s work is in dozens of museums across the country, including the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Museum of American Art, all in D.C., the Detroit Institute of Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum in Hartford, Conn., the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. In South Carolina, his work is in the Greenville County Museum of Art and the Columbia Museum of Art, whose acquisition of two Paul Reed paintings was facilitated by if ART owner Wim Roefs. Reed’s work has been in more than 100 solo and group shows, including Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which traveled nationally from 2000-2002.

Columbia’s Laura Spong (b. 1926) enjoyed her most successful year in 2006, both in terms of sales and critical acclaim. Spong sold more than 30 paintings from her 80th birthday solo exhibition at Gallery 80808 in February 2006, which was accompanied by a 32-page catalogue published by if ART. Spong also had solo exhibitions last year at Carol Saunders Gallery in Columbia and Greenville’s Hampton III Gallery, as well as a retrospective at the University of South Carolina’s McMaster Gallery. She was in a two-person show at Atlanta’s Vinson Gallery and in several group exhibitions in North and South Carolina. In April, she’ll be in a group exhibition at the Greenville County Museum of Art that also will include if ART Gallery artist David Yaghjian.

Greenville’s Katie Walker (b. 1970) was in the 2005 Florence, Italy, Biennale, and recently has been in exhibitions at the Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, N.C., Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, the Spartanburg (S.C.) Museum of Art, the Carillon Building in Charlotte, N.C., the Artbomb in Greenville and Brookgreen Gardens in Pawley’s Island, S.C. She was included in New American Paintings No. 40, 2002. Walker holds a BFA in Studio Art from Furman University and an MFA from the University of Georgia.

Sumter native and Columbia resident Mike Williams (b. 1963) recently had a major solo exhibition at Columbia College in Columbia, S.C. Williams is among the state’s most-acclaimed painters and sculptors. In recent years he has had solo exhibitions at Pawleys Island Cheryl Newby Gallery, I. Pinckney Simons Gallery in Beaufort, S.C., and at Newberry College in Newberry, S.C, Francis Marion University in Florence, S.C., and the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, S.C.

Preview of Katie Walker: Alternate Timelines, September 16-October 8, 2016

Diagram For Old Age, 2016, acrylic on canvas,
36 x 36 in., $3,000

Legend For Memory Map, 2015, acrylic on canvas,
30 1/4 x 58 in., $3,750

His and Hers, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 in., $4,100

The Wind Told Her To Take Cover, 2015, acrylic on canvas,
48 x 48 in., $4,500/SOLD

Blueprint For Night Ceremony, 2016, acrylic on wood,
24 x 24 in., $1,400

Watchdog, 2015, acrylic on wood, 24 x 30 in., $1,700

Map of Boxing Condition, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 
48 x 48 in., $4,500

Settling In, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 in., $3,000

Dress Rehearsal For the New Year, 2016,
acrylic on canvas, 50 x 43 in., $4,300

She Invented An Evening For Herself, 2015, acrylic
 on canvas, 48 x 48 in., $4,500

Architectural Conversation, 2015, acrylic
on wood, 30 x 24 in., $1,700

Artist's Map, 2014, acrylic on canvas,
45 1/4 x 35 in., $3,500

Calculation XII, 2013, acrylic 
on canvas mounted on wood, 12 x 12 in., 
$450/SOLD

Exhibitionist, 1999, acrylic on canvas,
23 3/4 x 18 1/4 in., $1,200

Left Hook, 2016, acrylic on wood, 12 x 12 in., $500

Spatial Concept XX, 2014, 
acrylic on canvas mounted on wood, 24 x 24 in.,
$1,400

Memory Space II, 1999, acrylic on canvas,
 23 3/4 x 18 1/4 in., $1,200/SOLD

Burial Map, 2016, acrylic on wood, 12 x 12 in., $500

Exhibitionist, 2016, acrylic on wood, 12 x 12 in., $500

Figures In Space, 1998, acrylic on canvas,
14 1/4 x 11 1/4 in., $600/SOLD

Memory Space I, 1999, acrylic on canvas,
23 3/4 x 18 1/4 in., $1,200

When He Told Her She Talked Too Much, She Exploded And Grew Her Own Stripes, 2015, acrylic on
canvas, 47 x 73 in., $6,500

SOLD WORKS OF ART

Journal Entries Series, $200

No More Than a Spot, 2006-08
Acrylic on paper, 38 x 23 in., 
$1,800

Artist's Flag, 2008-09, acrylic on paper
22 x 16 1/2 in., $900

Mind Map, 2008, acrylic on paper
22 x 16 1/2 in., $900

Untitled, 2008

Oil on wood, 12 x 12 in., $ 400

Untitled, 2009

Acrylic and acrylic paint stick on paper

11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in., $ 525

Untitled, 2009

Acrylic and acrylic paint stick on paper

11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in., $ 525

Untitled, 2009

Acrylic and acrylic paint stick on paper

11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in., $ 525

2013, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 u=in. $4,500

Figures In Space, 1998, acrylic on wood, 
14 1/4 x 11 1/4 in., $600

Calculation XII, 2013, acrylic on wood, 12 x 12 in., $450

The Wind Told Her To Take Cover, 2015,
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in., $4,500

Untitled, 2007
Oil on wood
12 x 12 in.