Katharina Barrett
 mixed media collage on manila tag: paper, acrylic, paint sticks, charcoal, spray paint, white pen, stencils, rubber stamps and ink pad, book pages, odd sense of humor; 2019 Katharina Barrett STATEMENT My love of collage began as a young girl, traipsing after my artist and designer mother at her various graphic design jobs. She would give me scraps of paper, scissors, and glue to entertain myself while she completed her work projects. As a moody teenager in the late 80s and early 90s, I worked through my angst by making mixtapes for friends and collaging the covers. I consider Basquiat and Klimt as my muses, and love to mesh their different flavors into coherent pieces. It was doing this that led me to call my style Baroque Grunge as I love to juxtapose grungy layers, wild colors, and primitive line work with ornate gold and other intricate detailing. My love of language is almost always incorporated through found poetry. I love working in unusual sizes including small artist trading cards, squares, and have been known to collage furniture. I believe ultimately that art should be accessible to all and that has led me to trading Artist Trading Cards. My hope is that the work I create will make someone pause and think, and perhaps ask “Does she mean what I think she means by that?” Perhaps I do. “Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.” –Claude Monet BIO Katharina Barrett, also known as Kati, katilady, and Baroque_Grunge, is a collage artist located in the real northern California: Humboldt County. Raised in the 70s & 80s by an artist mother in Phoenix, Arizona, she spent the scorching summers of her youth in the free local galleries and museums, getting art history and design lectures from her mom. Kati calls Basquiat and Klimt her biggest inspirations. She coined the term “Baroque Grunge” to describe her style of wildly colorful, graphic, grungy, and ornately detailed mixed media collages. Her pieces frequently showcase her love of language, innuendo, and juxtaposition; they almost always incorporate found poetry. Her work has been shown in local shops and galleries in her community and ARTIST CONTACT IMAGES  mixed media collage on manila tag: paper, acrylic, paint sticks, charcoal, spray paint, white pen, stencils, rubber stamps and ink pad, book pages, odd sense of humor; 2019  Artist Trading Card; mixed media collage on Bristol: paper, acrylic, paint sticks, charcoal, spray paint, white pen, stencils, rubber stamps and ink pad, book pages, love of chaos; 2020  6″x6″; mixed media collage: paper, acrylic, paint sticks, charcoal, spray paint, white pen, stencils, rubber stamps & ink pad, book pages, innuendos galore, Dresden foil, embossing powder on canvas; 2016  Artist Trading Card; mixed media collage on Bristol: paper, acrylic, paint sticks, charcoal, spray paint, white pen, stencils, rubber stamps and ink pad, book pages, your mom jokes; 2020 |