Area Artist Featured in Large Twin Cities Exhibition

Katie Sanvick, a 2007 graduate of Hayfield High School, is an artist and digital artist that currently has a piece showing in the "Botanica" Exhibition with Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis, which runs through May 13th. The show is free to the public and features 125 artists from around the world and includes work from artists, illustrators, designers and photographers, so it's traditional paintings, digital paintings, photography, sculpture, embroidery, jewelry, everything!

"Botanica" is Katie's fourth time showing at this gallery. "This is a really big show. It’s a nature inspired and themed show, centered on the origins of the earth, creation and mythologies, and cultures and how they interact with plant life, so it’s a broad topic which is good for artists, because it leaves a lot up to interpretation and gives us room to discover our own story. They had a call for entries and over 600 people applied, so it felt great to be chosen," Katie says.

Her piece "Giver" is a digital painting based on Gala from Greek Mythology. "No one knows what that is when I tell them, but I have a 22-inch tablet that looks like a monitor that has a highly pressure-sensitive pen with it so I can draw on the screen and it feels just like traditional mediums because you are physically looking at what you are drawing but it’s a lot more free because you don't have to worry about mistakes when you can just hit undo, and you can hide layers and try different color schemes out, so I like that you can experiment more with it."  Katie's work usually has a lot of portraiture in it - a lot of people subjects and a lot of animal subjects.

When she isn't making artwork for exhibits, Katie is still creating artwork, because she also works as a graphic designer at Image Bridge Design here in Rochester.

For more on Katie, check out her website.