KATIE PROCK
Katie Prock is a photographic artist and book maker. Currently, Prock is an MFA candidate at Florida Atlantic University, where she holds a graduate teaching assistantship and has been awarded the Esther Saylor Rothenberger Scholarship, the Friedland Project Grant, and a Presidential Fellowship. Her practice utilizes alternative printing techniques and incorporates handcrafted processes which emphasize chance occurrence and imperfections. Her work and research focus on topics such as identity, gender, family history, and girlhood. In addition to being exhibited across the United States, including Biblio 2020 at Art Palm Beach, Prock’s work was recently featured in the Body + Memory + City Photo Festival in Alicante, Spain.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My creative practice relies on photography’s capacity to highlight underrepresented voices, to find strength in vulnerability, and to promote empathy that begins at the individual level. I emphasize personal stories as a way to engage with broader themes such as family history, domesticity, identity, girlhood, and transformation. Working primarily through photography, I take inspiration from the history of image making while expanding the possibilities of the photographic object through digitally augmented printing techniques. My work ranges from unaltered photographic images to hand-crafted installations, artist books, collages, and three-dimensional photographic objects. Through processes that allow for chance occurrences and imperfections; cutting, layering, bleaching, dyeing, stitching, and writing on, these pieces emphasize the material qualities of photography as a medium.
AVAILABLE WORKS
