Katie Rodgers
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Katie Rodgers is an artist based in New York City & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Clients include Estée Lauder, Veuve Clicquot, Diptyque Paris, Christian Louboutin, La Maison du Pastel, Don Julio, Focus Features, Seedling by Grove, Harper Collins, Jaeger- LeCoultre, Noble Panacea, Google, DOVE Chocolate, Boston Ballet, and Disney, among others.
Katie Rodgers
3y ago
After living in New York City for years, I started to feel like I was living in a box. Like I was some pet hamster running from one box to another, every now and then escaping to Central Park before I was caught and placed back inside.
I love New York City. I like its weirdness and efficiency. I like how you sometimes walk past a person with 14 dogs strapped to their body, or that time I saw a man walking his 2 turtles on leashes in Central Park. Also, the time a man walked into this pub with his dog - the dog hopped up on a stool and they stared at each other while he drank a beer. But at som ..read more
Katie Rodgers
3y ago
Maybe it all started with my newfound love of gardening last summer. Every morning I would arrive at my studio and go out onto the small terrace to water my plants. They slowly began to multiply and sprout new layers of leaves one after another. To be honest, it surprised me how much I started to care about the plants (and the fact that they flourished under my once black thumb), and how much they became a part of my life. I missed them when I had to travel, and I especially miss them now that it is winter.
Somewhere in that time, they inspired me to create artwork that felt like this little g ..read more
Katie Rodgers
3y ago
A little more than five years ago, I sat down at my drafting table and painted the first “Shadow Dancers”. They came to be sort of as an accident. I was painting and the dancers just turned out to look like shadows, and I loved them that way. They also make me think of this scene in the 1960 version of Peter Pan played by Mary Martin (the shadow and how they just made Tinker Bell with a light reflection were the best!).
The Shadow Dancers became a theme for me. I started trying to find them everywhere, in everything ..read more
Katie Rodgers
3y ago
Last week, Uber invited me to the Guggenheim Museum to see a new exhibition on the Swedish female artist, Hilma af Klint.
To be honest, I hadn’t heard of her (only 5% of United States and European Museum collections are comprised of female artists’ work). But beyond that, there’s more to the story. So, I went to stand in front of her paintings and find out about this woman’s life.
Her work was wonderful, I mean, I really genuinely was fascinated by it. When I first walked in, my immediate reaction was to feel some sort of optimism in response to her shapes and color usage. It’s playful and n ..read more
Katie Rodgers
6y ago
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