Salina Art Center

Future Artists in Residence

Katie Holten, I think (Darwin’s Tree), 2010, ink,
fossils, paper, and cover from a 1959 copy of The
Golden Bough, 9 x 8 ½ x 3 ½ in. Courtesy of the
artist and LMAKprojects, New York

Katie Holten
March 21–April 17, 2011

Born in 1975 in Dublin, Ireland, Katie Holten maintains an international, multi-media practice subverting conventional notions of reality and the urban landscape in order to engage our understanding of the natural environment. Combining interests in global politics and the poeticism of chance encounters, Holten’s diverse body of work proposes a distinct model for ways artists can inform and influence the collective consciousness.

Based in New York, NY, Holten studied art and art history at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and attended Cornell University on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including recent shows at LMAKprojects, New York; The Bronx Museum, New York; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. In 2003, she represented Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale.

Please visit www.katieholten.com for more information on the artist.

Karyn Olivier, Inbound: Houston (detail), 2009,
public art project converting 13 billboards on
Houston’s freeways to photographic representations
of the landscapes existing directly behind the billboard
structures, Courtesy of the Artist

Karyn Olivier
May 2–29, 2011

Karyn Olivier, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, received her B.A. from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan.  Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as the Gwangju and Busan Biennials, Korea; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Wanas Foundation, Sweden; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; and The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. Olivier has been the recipient of many awards and grants including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, an Art Matters grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, and project grants from the Creative Capital Foundation and Public Art Fund. Olivier was an artist in residence at the Core Program, Houston, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Tyler School of Art.

Please visit www.karynolivier.com for more information on the artist.

Marie Lorenz, documentation from The Tide and
Current Taxi, 2010, Courtesy of the artist

Marie Lorenz
June–July 2011

Artist Marie Lorenz is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is well-known for her ongoing performance The Tide and Current Taxi, where she ferries people in a hand-crafted boat through the city’s waterways. Combining interests in psycho-geographic explorations, mapping, and spatial awareness, Lorenz employs boats and natural navigational techniques to chart the ambiguous, shifting notions of water in an effort to discover a sense of place. Follow Lorenz’s boat tours at marielorenz.com.