Artist photo
Katie Waugh - RESOLUTION BOXES
Experience this work in the upper meadow.
Taking a cue from small podiums or proverbial “soap boxes,” Resolution Boxes cite platforms meant to elevate or facilitate (individual) public address. This series of low-slung, horizontal wooden structures each feature a structural failing, each struggling to support a glossy black plane. These planes reflect the circumstances in which they are placed, capturing modified images of their surroundings.
Individually, each must be shored up to overcome their systemic failures; as a group, they become a collective action, a gathering, or a conversation, dependent on and reflective of their context.
Katie Waugh is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in photography, sculpture, and video. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MA from Savannah College of Art and Design—Atlanta. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the US and internationally, including at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta Georgia; and the Kauno Biennale in Kaunas, Lithuania, the Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL; and ADDS DONNA, Chicago. She recently completed a Photography Fellowship Residency at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works in the Fingerlakes region of New York, where she is an Associate Professor and Art Gallery Director in the Visual Arts Program of Wells College.