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Artist Profile: Katrina Revenaugh

Katrina Revenaugh

3916 West 57th Terrace
Fairway, KS 66205

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Katrina Revenaugh is a photographer, printmaker and painter. She combines those disciplines to transform the grit and chaos of street art into her own visual language. Her current body of work explores this concept by merging graffiti with botanicals into unexpected worlds—where blooms and street art ephemera connect in a surprising, beautiful way. Over the years, she has traveled to 24 cities across 11 countries to photograph graffiti in some of the most incredible street art environments around the world. Katrina says that when’s she’s shooting, there’s a connection she feels to the heart of a city and the people who choose to put their mark on it. To her, graffiti is the ultimate in “mark making”. Extracting color and imagery from her photographs she combines them with botanicals and insects she’s photographed in an alternative printmaking process where nature is imbued with the color from graffiti walls. Gestures intertwine with flowers, vines and other botanicals. They are printed by hand with pigment inks on the surface of her work under and over various layers of paint and other mediums. Katrina hails from the Midwest and spent her teen years in rural Southern Illinois where her love of nature and flowers flourished. Much later in life, she developed a deep appreciation for graffiti and street art while living near Venice Beach, California and attending Otis College of Art & Design. Her fascination with both led her to create an extensive library of images that she continues to build upon—spending many hours shooting in gardens and alleys creating the foundational imagery for her work. She currently resides in Kansas City.