•✦ about ✦•Katy Itter is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in the Hudson Valley, New York, working primarily in embroidery and other fiber art processes. Her work has been exhibited at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery, The Untitled Space, Queens Museum, and WAH Center, among other places, and featured in Create! Magazine. She received her MFA in Sculpture from SUNY New Paltz, where she currently teaches.
•✦ Artist Statement ✦•At the heart of my work is an obsession with perfection and a desire to understand the pressures that shape how we inhabit our bodies. I work primarily in embroidery and other fiber-based techniques to explore how gender and beauty are constructed, performed, and carefully sustained. Through slow, repetitive labor, patterns emerge that feel both meticulous and compulsive, mirroring the neurotic maintenance required to produce idealized femininity. At the same time, I am drawn to subjects often framed as abject or embarrassing (bodily fluids, industrial materials, and awkward intimacy) and rework them through decorative craft traditions. By combining these subjects with traditionally gendered materials and techniques, my work reflects on the cultural pressures surrounding beauty, control, and self-presentation, while questioning what is permitted visibility or value.
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