BIO

Katy Flammia is an artist, architect and designer.

She works in encaustic and acrylic painting, ceramics, and assemblage.

She studied architecture at Pennsylvania State University, Boston Architectural College and McGill University in Montreal. She has studied painting and ceramics in Philadelphia, Boston, NYC, Mexico, Denmark and Sweden.

Katy's interests include biophilic design, perception and space, sustainable building science, land art, poetry, native plant gardening, and all things Swedish.

She was born in South Korea, raised in Pennsylvania and lives in Claverack, NY.  Her studio is in Hollowville, NY.

I want to see the world and all that is in it as living; unique and overlapping beings, each part of other beings and systems. Painting is a practice that helps me unlearn the separation and hierarchies in our culture.

Life persists through a constant recombination of the animate and the inanimate, and its possible, at a different scale or duration, even the inanimate is animate.

I think about how perception shifts based on our place in the world, our movement through space, and our changing points of view.

Do we experience a ceaseless passage of time and the influences this passage has on the world around us, or can we be held in a moment that extends forward and back, something vast, something that hovers and holds?  Can we experience both together?

My work is an exploration of the fluidity of existence, where the insistence of the eternal and the fragility of impermanence converge. I am interested in the moments when things transition from one state to another. 

Those moments of intricate intermingling of our inner and outer worlds, can access hidden dimensions of our perceptions and emotions.