Katrin Jurati (b. 1966)

A Buffalo State College graduate, Katrin Jurati is co-founder of Buffalo’s Big Orbit Gallery and New York City-based Deep Space, a pioneering off Wall Street gallery, as well as a former elementary art educator.  This background in children’s art is reflected in the playful forms of her paintings and sculpture. Made like many of her pieces from found objects, Dwell is brightly painted with a variety of patterns from plaids to zig zags. Jurati creates an eye-catching and whimsical play of color and abstraction. —Joan Vita Marotta, 2002