Katie Garth: Best Laid Plans
Katie Garth
Best Laid Plans
EARMARK COLLECTION
Recent Addition: Best Laid Plans, 2020, risograph-printed, spiral-bound publication, 5 x 7 x 1 inches, text by the artist
Within a childhood story about my personal tendency for order, I consider the merits of planning, asking for what each of us may be preparing, and noting how familiar objects and mundane rituals provide their own enduring appeal. The narrative empathizes with the impulse for escapism while also examining what is lost by withdrawing into oneself. — Katie Garth
Katie Garth is a print-based artist in Philadelphia. Her interdisciplinary work explores tedium as a coping mechanism for uncertainty, and often reflects her interests in language and independent publication. Garth received her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post and PRINT. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at several Philadelphia area-universities.
