Kate Steciw
Born in Bethlehem, 1978 and lives in Brooklyn, NY
Kate Steciw is a Contemporary artist working in Brooklyn, New York who uses sculpture, photography, video, and image manipulation in her artwork. She attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts where she obtained her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Political Science. She then attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her Masters of Fine Arts in Photography. For 10 years she worked a day-job as an image retoucher at Art + Commerce and made pieces in her spare time.
Kate Steciw‘s works examine the evolving understanding of the physical object in relation to its digital representation and distribution online. Steciw is “interested in the collision between representation (mostly virtual or computer-mediated) and materialization which I think is so characteristic of contemporary experience.”
Informed by her 10 years of experience as a commercial photography retoucher, Steciw often manipulates stock images of objects into collages, removing them from their commercial context and reinterpreting the images as art objects. Because much of Steciw’s work considers the object within the context of mass media and Web 2.0, her art can be associated with the postinternet movement.
Steciw is often inspired by happenings in popular media, as well as works by Karl Marx, Pierre Bourdieu, Max Weber, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Siegfried Kracauer, and especially Knut Hamsun.
