The Art Of Katerina Lanfranco

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Katerina Lanfranco

The basis of my art practice is the act of collecting, organizing, and fragmenting images and objects from nature and everyday life, incorporating my own vocabulary of visual elements. I make art as a way to ask questions about the world that I live in:

How do I make the invisible visible?
At what point does fantasy become reality?

How is our concept of nature a cultural construct?
My work seeks to explore the intricate duality of culture and nature, and the ways in which our understanding of nature informs our own identities. I reference culture-specific modes of representing nature, such as botanical illustrations, floral fabric patterns, curio cabinets, scientific notes, dioramas, and panoramas. Landscapes, sacred geometry, natural disasters, natural history, biological structures, and genetic engineering are recurring themes, as are cultural conceptions of progress, systems of knowledge, and the problem of creating meaning within a natural world.

Below A Sea Of Stars, Installation View 2009
Mixed Media 68' x 96' x 48'

Natural Selection 2012
Installation at Sesnon Gallery, CA, With Handcut Tyvek 14' x 80'

Tomorrow Dreams Of Neon, 2015
Site Specific Acrylic Wall Painting at Andrew Edin Gallery NYC, Dimensions Variable

The Creation Of Ursus Horibillus, 2006
Mixed Media Diorama With Paper Mache, Recycled Rabbit Fur & Oil On Canvas (96' x 72')
160 x 240 x 50"

Forming The Heart Of a Quasar, 2008
Oil On Linen 72 x 72"

Remnants Of a Supernova, 2008 Oil On Linen 72 x 72"

Heart Of The Matter 2012
Oil On Canvas 30 x 24"

Katerina Lanfranco is a Brooklyn-based artist whose body of work includes paintings, drawings, sculptures,
and mixed media installations.

She earned her BA from UC Santa Cruz and her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her work is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) in Berlin, and the Corning Museum of Glass. She teaches studio art at the MOMA, among other institutions for higher learning throughout New York.

Lanfranco is the founder and director of
Rhombus Space, an exhibition space in Brooklyn where she curates concept-driven group and solo shows. She is also Chief Curator at Brooklyn’s Trestle Gallery.