Kat LiBretto

Kat’s work is fueled by inspiration in natural landscape and how humans experience them. This theme became prominent in her work when she noticed the impact corporations were having on her surrounding environment and their rapid overdevelopment of the spacious land neighboring her.   The compositions reflect recognizable landmarks, offering narratives and asking the viewer to connect with them.  An identity of place is a key theme in her work, and her work reflects a relationship between self, place and time, inviting the viewer to seek out the sublime, solitude, grandeur and adventure in the most natural places.

Changing environments and a wanderlust desire inspire Kat’s work.  She aims to provide her audience with a diversity of landscapes, offering personal interpretations of environmental themes.  The places she reflects on are places she explores on her own, traveling thousands of miles by car to reach them, and then explores inside by foot.  She photographs and sketches on site, then returns to her studio to spend countless hours illustrating the artwork that she will screen print by hand. 

 The experimental way in which she is using screen printing is similar to a painter in a studio, working with a variety of materials, manipulating the flat surface of paper, adding illusion and texture and areas of depth and complexity in multiple layers, colors, and application.  Her screen printing practice is constantly evolving while she experiments with and develops innovative methods in the process.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katprints/?hl=en 

Website: http://www.katlibretto.com/shop