Kate Auman

Kate Auman

2D Design

Kate Auman’s body of work draws upon death and disability. Recent pieces explore generational connectivity by comparing her own disabled experience with those of late relatives. Utilizing archival photos, personal writing, bookmaking, and sound she reveals private moments of grief. She has participated in various art programs, including Trojan Horse (with Payal Kapadia and nicole killian) and the McFadden Thorpe Typography program. The Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki) premiered her video art “August” in the summer of 2020. She was awarded Student to Watch 2021 by Graphic Design USA. Auman is currently teaching as an adjunct professor at College for Creative Studies.

Black and white photo print altered with thread, acrylic paint, and wax. On the left is a person in white long-sleeve shirt with the head obscured by a black shape. The person is cutting a cake on a table with two candles and other semi-obscured table settings. The far right of the image is heavily obscured by added black ad white media..

Mother Wood, Newsprint, Thread, Acrylic Paint, Wax/ (24" x 24"x 3”

White rectangular block with two rectangular insets of different sizes. The left inset area is black with tonal geometric lines. The right inset area is slightly larger and holds a print. The print is a high-contrast, close up portrait of a person leaning on their arm with forearm and hand drawn up to their face.

Afterlife Wood, Screen Printing Ink, Acrylic Paint, Pumice Stone, Newsprint. 12" x 9" x 3"

A black and white collaged mixed media work on a black background. A wavy, distorted square made up of several landscape photos and other ephemera. Text around the border reads "the way he looks and acts" repeated, but is cut up by the collage effect. Thread pierces the piece in several area creating an organic and random line work over the collaged imagery and text.

Genetic Newsprint, thread, wheatpaste. 24" x 24"

An installation featuring an organic-shaped, four-legged stool with an open black and white newspaper-like publication lying open and draped over the surface. The pages are open to a full page spread of a printed image. Above the stool and to the right is a white shelf with a colorful three-dimensional rectangle seated on it. The rectangle is a semi-transparent material with many colored objects embedded within.

Nightlight Bubblegum, Pop Rocks, Cotton Candy, Vanilla Tootsie Rolls, Extra Bubble Gum, Glitter, Resin, Plaster, Newsprint, Ink, Steel, Epoxy. Grief Vessel: 16" x 16” x 18" and Nightlight: 4” x 14”x12”

A black and white printed image and text on newsprint paper. The image of two diamond-stamped metal pieces laying haphazardly over a deep rectangular hole in ground is centered in the rectangular page. Eac side of the image is boarded by text. The text on the top reads "no one tells you how claustrophobic it". The text on the left and right sides reads, "is or how feeling alive feels weird, removed"

Claustrophobia Newsprint, Ink. 9' x 12"

The word, "HORROR", is debossed, with very organic edges, like each letter breaking up around the edges.

Horror Debossed Paper and remnants of burnt wood. 25" x 17"

A grainy black and white print looking into the top of a garbage bag piled up with different plastic bottles and string. The word "HORROR" appears in the lower left corner.

Lastofit Newsprint, Ink. 9" x 12"

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