FURNISH ME
Katie Sinnott www.katiesinnott.com
Katie Sinnott received her Master of Fine Arts from UCLA in 2013, and holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2011, she was awarded the Travelling Scholars Grant from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and in 2013 was the recipient of the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. Most recently, Sinnott has exhibited at Cirrus Editions, Night Gallery, ACME and the Sonce Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles, California, where she currently lives.
Project ‘My work involves play in architectural space, where I treat the studio like an unfolding painting, a malleable sculpture that develops and moves over time. In a daily practice I will add and remove paint, drywall, plywood, light and other materials in the space, to bring it close to a balancing point where it is moving and still, flat and dimensional, empty and vibrant, imagined and real; like an interior and outside space, coming together and falling apart. This work grows from the idea of being inside of a changing painting, and engaged in a process of continuous renewal. I arrived at CeRCCa to an empty bedroom, no plan for my contribution, piles of old doors and windows, and the company of four other artists from all parts of the world. Together we sunk into the space of the house and mixed our ideas, and our own projects began. After four days of observing the empty, white room and playing with arrangements of pieces of old furniture, I began to construct the space around the feelings of emptiness, simplicity, and light, to build what I consider a three dimensional drawing.’
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