Sunday, April 14, 2013

Polk-a

Kathryn Polk "Real Girls Make Prints Not Pies" 2009
Printmaker Kathryn Polk (b.1952) is originally from Tennessee, where she received degrees from the Memphis Art Academy and The University of Memphis. She now lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. She is the co-owner of a professional lithography studio called L VIS Press and she is known as a trailblazer in developing and promoting less toxic lithographic procedures and equipment.

Kathryn Polk "I make Prints Not Pies" 2010

Polk exhibits widely and her work is in many collections around the world such as The National Academy of Fine Art (Hangzhou, China), University of Wales (Aberystwyth, UK), and The University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson.) More information about the artist and her work can be found on her blog, Non-Indigenous Woman,  which can be seen here. 

Kathryn Polk "Spilt Milk" 2011




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