Washington, DC
www.katharinemann.net / @ktzulan
I examine landscape picture making by building luxuriant, cinematically scaled paper paintings and installations. These combine romantic, utopian, and immersiveboth Chinese and Western landscape painting with a lexicon drawn from a personal mythology informed by my identity as a biracial, second generation Asian American. Ribbons, baubles, bats, peaches, sperm, and piles of flowers repeat so many times as to appear biomorphic and alien, but burst with incongruous efflorescence. My painting practice has two primary concerns: the exploration of landscape painting in a world where "landscape" is defined through an everwidening field of digital, graphic, and visual forms, and the insertion of a personal iconography—personal world building, even—into that history.
