I make metaphoric and utilitarian vessels in clay to explore beauty as a human nutrient. The vessels arrayed in delicate scaffolding, secured to a wall, nested on industrial felt or held in someone’s hand, bridge theoretical notions of art, craft and design. I offer these vessels in precarious arrangements, intimate settings and community spaces to create sensate and spatial fields for embodied viewing. Ultimately hoping to intonate a range of psychic relations.

My work investigates verbal and non-verbal differences I observe as resonant or dissonant interactions between individuals or in community. I aim to initiate a kinesthetic retuning of mind and body alignment through activation of space and the viewer’s body.

As a crafts person, my hands guide an intuitive awareness of interactions into the material realm. The utilitarian or metaphoric vessels lend these observations physical form. For example, Geo Political Array, arrangement of porcelain catchments teetering on masonry line structurally suggests, by turns, safety or peril.  Orogenic Spires, ceramic edifices that at once suggest beauty and fragility metaphorically activate a sense of land formation and wind currents to heighten awareness of invisible forces. Objects and spatial installations made to invite intimacy.

I choose clay for its properties of flexibility, forgiveness and my inability to control outcomes. I use porcelain, primal clay that is mined where it was formed and sedimentary clay that has been transported to new places by water. 

Katia Fuentes' work focus on a personal scale, with socio-political and cultural underpinnings. Through her creations, she connects projected symbols on objects with the desire of exploring the different meaning of their relation. She has been living in the Mission of San Francisco since 1998, and participating in Solo and Group shows at: World Bank Art Program, Art Museum of the Americas, and Prada Gallery in Washington D.C., Maryland Art Place in Maryland, Nurture Art in New York City, Somarts SF, SF Photography Center, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Fort Mason, Casa del Libro, Melting Point Gallery, and The Mexican Museum. Her Nursery Rhymes series is part of the World Bank art collection. Her Self-portrait as a Mexican Saint was published by Camera Arts magazine and in many local publications. Her artwork has been broadcasted by KRON4, Latin Eyes; Univision 14, The Matt Gonzalez TV Show and Postales USA, Canal 11TV. She is an artist in residence at the organization Project Artaud where she shows new work every year during SF Open Studios. She is also a contributor Writer and Photojournalist for many Spanish publications. Her blog FuenteseyeBlog publish photos and stories of Latino interest. 

I photograph cityscapes in a process that is part photography, part event
and part sculpture – an undertaking in apparatus and patience. Many times this
process involves composing pictures from the inside of a large hand-built camera
that is mounted on a flatbed trailer, and produces large scale, one of a kind, positive exposures.

As I evolve and add the pages of life,I find myself again igniting my passion for art. My aim is to capture the beautiful essence of the human body.
My pieces are of clay ,a very easy and pliable material with the ability to add and subtract and carve and shape. I leave the raw texture in most of my pieces to show the material. I see,I sculpt, I push the clay,fast and slow , dancing with the energy of my model and myself. The body is a beautiful element. I try to capture the spirit,the emotion,the gesture,the positive and the negative in which the body creates within the space.
BA California of the Arts

In these photographic studies I am drawn to the organic structure, pattern and beauty of botanical subjects. Through lens manipulation my desire is to transcend the existing landscape and create new altered imagery evoking a meditative sense of place.