Cate McQuaidThe Boston GlobeOctober 20, 2010 You need light to see your shadow, and Katina Huston uses several lights to cast shadows of everyday objects such as glasses, bicycles and horns. She suspends them from her studio ceiling, then traces their shadows on the floor in ink. Huston’s show at Chase Young Gallery is most […]
Judy WagonfeldSeattle Post-IntellegencerMarch 18, 2005 Bicycles can set you free. Propelled by wheels, pedals and a pumping heart, you fly, float and soar. Articulating that transcendent moment has challenged artists since medieval times. Many answer in mythological or religious renderings. Abstractionist Mark Rothko chose hovering hues. Then, here’s San Franciscan Katina Huston going for it […]
Hiya SwanheuyserSF WeeklyJune 2006 Katina Huston’s ink-on-Mylar drawings of bicycles – only bicycles- look startlingly like birch forests in winter. Such woods may be unfamiliar to Bay Areans used to wooly redwoods and chaparral, but back East, each individual tree stands calm and prim separated from its neighbors by plenty of space and light, reinforcing […]
Andrew EngletonARTnewsJune 2005 vol 104 number 6 It’s not often that art succeeds in combining the monumental and the ephemeral, but Katina Huston’s large scale images of bicycles managed to be both ghostly and remarkably solid. To say that Huston merely paints bicycles is a bit like saying Susan Rothenberg is just a horse painter. […]
Kenneth BakerSan Francisco ChronicleJune 10, 2006 Visitors who know the lore of Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades” will think of it the moment they encounter Katina Huston’s pleasing show of drawings at Dolby Chadwick. Huston generates forms by tracing and inking shadows cast by bicycle parts on Mylar sheets. Huston apparently invokes Duchamp as a foil for […]
Kenneth BakerSan Francisco ChronicleMarch 21, 2008 Bay Area Artist Katina Huston has gotten a lot of artistic mileage out of drawings based on shadows cast by bicycle wheels, an image with surprisingly rich associations. In her recent work at Dolby Chadwick, in an exhibition that ends today, shows her at the end of that road, […]
Kenneth BakerSan Francisco ChronicleApril 9, 2005 Any exhibition that features work by notable Bay Area artists Hung Liu, Carlos Villa and Gail Wight probably warrants a visit. But the drawings of the little-celebrated Katina Huston upstage everything else in “Visual Alchemy Phase 2” at the Oakland Art Gallery. In black coffin-like constructions fitted with small […]
Cerys Wilson, Art New England, September/October 2017 Chase Young Gallery Boston MA October 6-31 2017 Dysgraphia at Chase Young Gallery premieres Katina Huston’s Occlusions, a new body of work in oils and ink on acrylic. The series- from which Huston’s selected six works for exhibition- stems from the artist’s long standing fascination with shadows; one which […]
Mary Corbin, Alameda Magazine, April 2019 San Francisco native Katina Huston never imagined herself living in Alameda. Growing up in the city in the ‘70s she remembers a go-go dancer shaking it in an acrylic box atop a pole on Broadway. She describes her time there as being surrounded by a lot of ‘wow.’ Reflecting […]
Aimee C ReedARTweek May 2008 Two separate things occurred while I was working on the review of Katina Huston’s recent exhibition ‘Field of Vision’. First I visited an artist who was working on a new series that used photographs of the backs of well known paintings to create new artworks. Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacrum, […]