ARTIST BIO

Kit Rutter is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores ecology, impermanence, narrative, and multiple matters of care & connection. Her art practice involves drawing, papermaking, bookmaking, intaglio, writing, and foraging. After much movement and meandering, she now lives in the woods outside of Athens, Georgia with her dog Dorothy, and teaches at the University of Georgia.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Fostering my kinship with the natural world, I transform plants materials and soils into inks and paper — a sensual, slow, and messy process. Many of these plant materials will fade and distort with time — like us, like everything. As we consider this impermanence and transformation, how does this alter the way we perceive this moment, this place, our bodies, our relationships, and even art? Tangled thickets of paper both conceal and reveal. One must step closer to fully see what is present. An abundance of organic forms, delicate linework, and muted earth tones create a sense of beauty and lightness — not a lightness that creates a giddy and false utopia, but rather a lightness that responds to this weight with tenderness, curiosity, reckoning, and healing. By processing and transforming my own narratives through this work, I ask viewers to inhabit this place with me: an imaginative space that holds an abundance of complexities—uncertain shadows, tender expressions, fearsome beings, murky waters, and hopeful growth.