Katherine Vetne, Cutlery, 2025
Metalpoint and graphite on chalk ground on panel
15 × 11 × 1 inches
Katherine Vetne’s works, which span from paintings and drawings to sculpture, explore the relationship between ‘tasteful’ aesthetics and social power, morality, and death. Using an eclectic mix of high craft materials and methods, Vetne makes still lifes in two and three dimensions. Metalpoint drawings and sculptures using found antique objects like glass vases and tables come together in service of a worldbuilding project where mangled distortions and eerie undertones become secondary subjects to vases, flowers, and silks.