Katie Dell Kaufman

About the Artist

Faculty member at the Corcoran College of Art and Design for 21 years, Katie Dell Kaufman maintains a studio Takoma Park, MD, lectures, and holds art workshops and classes in the greater Washington, DC area.  She has exhibited her work in the US, Great Britain, Lithuania, and South Africa. She is represented by Zenith Gallery in WDC. Kaufman has received three Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Awards for her work in assemblage and encaustic. A Bethesda native, and a Takoma Park resident, she holds an MA from UM, College Park, MD, and a BA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. 

Artist's Statement

My work involves collecting, assembling, layering and morphing and is often created out of, or inspired by, functional objects with their own history. In combining encaustic with the processes of collage and assemblage, I use the interface between images, and objects, to reflect on what is seen, and an innate knowledge of what is lived. I use that which is familiar, in order to heighten the viewer’s awareness of the wonder, and the subtle beauty encountered in the details of life on earth.