The TimesFriday July 18, 1997 Artist-sculptor Katina Huston’s frustration with having to make only large works to attain her post graduate degree spurred her to create “ small things of little importance,” a new exhibit being mounted at Danville Fine Arts Gallery, opening Saturday. The display showcases Huston’s small, smaller and smallest works which she […]
Stephen M DohertyAmerican ArtistJanuary, 2010 Draw the ephemeral qualities of real Phenomena. Katina Huston responded to her fascination with cast shadows by creating a series of drawings on Mylar using mixtures of ink and acrylic medium. Among the powers that artwork can exert is its ability to provoke ideas about the nature of reality, of […]
Kenneth BakerSan Francisco ChronicleFebruary 12, 2011 The tracing of cast shadows probably goes back to the forgotten origins of pictorial representation. That possibility lends the device, in Katina Huston’s hands, a ready-made gravity. See her recent work at Dolby Chadwick. For several years, Huston used bicycle parts to throw the shadows that she delineates in […]
StaffCeramics MonthlyNovember 2005 “Narratives in Clay” is on view at V. Breier in San Francisco, California through October 29. The group exhibition features work by 14 ceramics artists. Alameda, California artist Katina Huston says “Little Red Armada” is a series of small, lumpy boats formed from Navajo Wheel clay based on World War I battleships, […]
Karen BossickWood River JournalSun Valley, ID, May 24, 2008 Katina Huston is a former bike messenger and bicycles remain a key inspiration for her elegant drawings. Placing bicycles on Mylar she projects light through them to form shadows which she then renders in 20 or more shades of ink. Her resulting shadow drawings of bicycle […]
John DorfmanArt and AntiquesWinter 2014-15 Contemporary artists are pushing their pens and pencils in new directions and letting viewers draw their own conclusions. At the Drawing Center in New York’s Soho District- the only museum dedicated entirely to drawing- one of the current exhibitions is about sewing, knitting and weaving. Titled “Thread Lines” it features […]
Joanne SilverArtnewsVolume 112 number 3 March 2013 Bay Area artist Katina Huston uses ink to trace the shadows of objects, thereby making a permanent record of the insubstantial and evanescent. To create each of the 16 drawings in her dazzling 2012 series “Goldberg Variations,” she arranged glasses-from champagne flutes to ordinary tumblers-in the positions of […]
Cate McQuaidBoston GlobeOctober 23 2012 Katina Huston has a fascination with shadows. For her show at Chase Young Gallery, the artist placed drinking glasses on translucent Mylar, according to the musical notation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. She shined lights and used ink to capture the glass’s shadows. The Goldberg Variations comprise an aria and 30 […]
Lea FiensteinArtnewsMay 2011 In this show titled, “Big Noise,” Katina Huston renders a veritable band of brass instruments in her signature technique-tracing the shadows of objects in sumi ink on Mylar. This method imbues her work with both a richness and a sense of tension. The serendipity of sooty, pooled ink is juxtaposed with the […]
The DigSeptember 29, 2010 In her day, Bay Area Artist Katina Huston has worn both the Lycra shorts of a death-defying bike messenger and the chevron-ed robe of a depth defying college professor. For her solo exhibition at the Chase Young Gallery, she’s pulling from both wardrobes with a series of ink on Mylar prints […]