Katherine Filice

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Katherine Filice is a Northern California artist whose practice explores the relationship between landscape, time, memory, and the living systems that shape the places we inhabit. Working with ink, oil, charcoal, earth pigments, paper, and found organic materials, she approaches the natural world not simply as subject, but as collaborator and active participant in the making of the work.

Central to her current practice is Buried Time, an ongoing, multi-site project in which large expanses of raw canvas are placed directly into the earth and left underground for approximately one year. Soil, moisture, roots, insects, microorganisms, and seasonal change alter and mark the canvas over time. Once excavated, some surfaces remain largely as the land has made them, while others become grounds for further work in the studio. The process deliberately relinquishes a degree of authorship, allowing environmental processes, chance, and time to become part of the visual language of the work.

Filice’s broader practice grows from sustained engagement with the landscapes surrounding her Northern California home. Forest materials, earth, bark, branches, charcoal, and other remnants gathered from the land frequently enter the work itself. Her Burn Scar series emerged following a wildfire that devastated the forest adjoining her home and incorporates blackened branches, ash, earth, and fire-altered materials gathered from the site. Across these bodies of work, she considers landscape as both material and record: a place where ecological change, human intervention, memory, loss, and regeneration continually intersect.

Underlying Filice’s practice is an interest in connection: between human and nonhuman systems, visible and unseen processes, and the accumulated histories held within a place. Her work asks what changes when the artist moves from depicting landscape toward working with it, allowing the land to leave its own evidence within the work.

Filice’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia and is held in private collections internationally. Recent exhibitions and presentations include the Monterey Museum of Art Biennial, Triton Museum of Art, New Museum Los Gatos, and Sasse Museum of Art. Her painting studio is located in El Dorado County, California.

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