Katie Hector

Working primarily with dyed and bleached canvas rather in place of traditional media, Katie Hector (b.1992, USA) creates portraits of others, including the people around her. Despite being modeled on real people, however, the identity of the enlarged, partially depicted figures, stripped of any decorative elements, remain ambiguous. The colors that look like they were taken with a thermal camera, the airbrushed outlines, and the layered composition of repeated dyeing and bleaching gesture toward Hector’s thoughts and intentions, but the finished pieces do not reveal their essence, allowing for a three-dimensional interpretation.