Collection: Katherine A. Hogan

Katherine creates wire sculpture designed to draw attention to form, light, and shadow. The shapes invite exploration of texture and depth. She is inspired by the the curves, dips, distances or closeness, of the landscapes that surround the Pacific Northwest. Her work is also influenced by natural elements like the power of the wind, the pathways of rain, or the detours tree roots take along the forest floor. Each sculpture inspires the next.
Katherine has always been a maker.

She has been looping wire since 2007 when she learned the technique in a workshop during a show of Ruth Asawa’s art at the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles. Commissions dominated her art making for many years and she is always happy to create based on an art lover’s specs. However, vital to her creative nature, is welcoming imperfection and to remain open to learning, communicating, and contributing as an art maker. She is currently exploring ideas of combining natural fibers she uses in basket weaving, clay/pottery, and wire. 

Katherine works out of her backyard studio in Tacoma, WA surrounded by ever evolving flower gardens with her sweet companion, Olive, a Catahoula/Chesapeake mix by her side, and of course two cats in the yard.