About Katherine Taylor

KT is a prolific artist who divides her time between Texas, the Adirondack Mountains, and northern Spain, where her foundry, Alfa Arte, is located. She is presently engaged in crafting a ‘prairie dog’ sculpture. This endeavor is in response to a commission extended to her studio by the Museum of the Southwest located in Midland, TX, aimed at enriching their permanent collection. The artist’s task involves not only creating a visually engaging ‘prairie dog’ sculpture but also ensuring its educational significance, offering insights into the lives of these creatures. Next year, “Falcon” , a large metal sculpture with a remarkable 14-foot wingspan, completed in 2023 is scheduled for installation at the University of Texas Permian Basin. The resulting artwork aptly captures the vivacity and essence of the university’s beloved Falcon mascot.

Katherine ‘KT’ Taylor explores strategies that fuse her themes and concern for elements drawn from the natural world with an awareness of formal sculptural traditions and techniques. Highly textured and rigorously constructed, her work starts in the outdoors and draws on the materiality of the landscape, a vocabulary of forms and means of manipulating textures that she is able to revisit, rethink and reframe in her quest to exploit the interconnectedness of nature and the limitless possibilities of artistic expression. Her practice of swapping tree bark textures for their animal counterparts creates subtle and uncanny mimicry that results in sculptures appearing to be in a state of constant flux: a strange back-and-forth that gives the viewer what the artist calls a sense of visual refreshment.

And in the artist’s own words: “Texture swapping involves the meticulous process of capturing the intricate details of various natural textures and then seamlessly blending them with unexpected counterparts. The juxtaposition of these textures results in a captivating fusion that surprises, intrigues, and provokes contemplation. By taking elements from the environment and swapping them out with one another, I aim to inspire a newfound appreciation for the beauty and complexity of the world around us”