HI
I am book and fiber artist, graphic designer and educator. I play with words and materials to find and expose the poetic connections between body and nature. My home and garden are my studio. My process evolves and adapts to the environments around me. The interconnectedness of beings, plants and the environment, their resilience and fragility, finality and cyclical nature are the constant fascination and the driving force behind my work.
My creative process is a way to articulate the immaterial connections, precious observations and personal revelations. I am fascinated by the material and the way it can influence the concept for the project. As a graphic designer, I deeply care about the process and the manifestation of an idea in a physical form. As a book and fiber artist, I want my work to achieve effortless meaning through patience and awareness.
BIO
Katya Reka (b. 1982 in Ukraine) is a book and fiber artist, graphic designer and educator. Reka plays with words and materials to find and expose the poetic connections between body and nature. Her work explores handmade and digital integrating book arts, graphic design, printmaking, photography and textiles.
Interested in the role and place of a physical book in the contemporary world, Reka combines handmade paper, textiles, traditional printmaking techniques with digital printing and video. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and is represented in collections across the United States and Europe.
Reka earned Master’s of Fine Art in Graphic Design from Indiana University Bloomington and has taught Graphic Design and Media Arts at the New Mexico State University. Based in Santa Fe, NM, she currently teaches graphic design remotely.