Sunday, October 27, 2013

Lithograph                                                                                                         "Predators"      2013

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art and Design


Kathryn Vajda was born in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington. She also did undergraduate and graduate studies Carnegie-Mellon University. Prior to coming Alfred University in 1996, she taught at the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has also taught at the Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, CO. Her teaching has investigated drawing, traditional print and new media. She has had work exhibited both regionally and nationally and has had work included in international exhibitions of the Institute of Electronic Arts. She has also included in a number of publications most notably “Exploring Color Photography From Film to Pixels” fifth edition by Robert Hirsch, Focal Press, New York. 

 Kathryn’s work represents the intersection of her interests in environmental issues, deception and false equivalencies. It also incorporates her interest in multiples including man made multiples, multiples found in nature and the repetition of false information. Deception is a factor in the structuring of the image but how that is accomplished is not always clear. The arrangement of man-made objects is obviously staged in a way that exploits the visual similarity between the objects and vegetation. Cloaked in a pleasing aesthetic there is a willingness to overlook the evidence and accept a benign alternative narrative.