Through mixed media artwork, printed matter, writing, video, and curricular design and teaching, I create space for reflection around the ways in which consumptive and extractive powers have shaped our planet, societies, and relationships-- and for envisioning what comes next. I often make use of discarded materials that speak of their own conditions and positions within cycles of extraction, consumption, and disposal. I see my work as offering space to honor what has been lost, to recognize what we wish to save, and to envision what we want to create, in our material and immaterial personal and collective worlds going forward.
Kaitlin Pomerantz is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator working between mediums with attention to the stories and memory that materials carry. Through sculpture, spatial intervention, image making, and text, Pomerantz considers narratives of place and the ecological and social relations and histories unfolding within it.
Pomerantz is the founder of MATTERS, an arts education initiative connecting artists and designers to materials, materials to labor and land.
Pomerantz is a critic at the School of Visual Arts and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.
kkpomerantz@gmail.com
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