Katie Merz, Hester & Bowery, Chinatown, NY
Artist bio: Born in Brooklyn. Influenced by cities, cartoons, architecture, silence and the kinetic structure of things. Many media have influenced the constantly changing surfaces that are worked upon. Synthetic, architectural, wearable, moving or simple - no hierarchies are implied. Line, and a respect for the changing integrity of line, is what the practice is.
As a kid growing up in the streets of Brooklyn Merz have always been interested in connecting art to the to the external environment. She currently works in a very simple style that translates quickly into an easily read, pictographic language that looks like a classroom blackboard or the work of a kid on an asphalt street. This creates a convergence between graffiti, coding and the mathematical deduction of everyday language that build a two dimensional architecture formed from words, signs and symbols.