Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsToday's conversation is with LA-based artist, Katie Hector. We talk residencies, her badass move to LA during Covid, her decision to leave graduate school, the artist as maker, balance, discipline, working in multiples, note-keeping, photographic reference, scale, "gesture intimacy and mystery", materials and abstraction, cold-calling, curating, and life skills. Enjoy!Katie Hector (b. 1992) in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, is an artist, curator, and writer based near Los Angeles, California. Hector’s studio practice revolves around a series of process-based paintings that layer dye and bleach to create portrait-likenesses that symbolize loss, grief, intimacy, and longing. She earned a BFA in painting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2014. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally garnering her recognition in the form of awards, scholarships some of which include: 2020 Lillian Disney Scholarship, 2019 Arquetopia International Residency, the 2017 Picture Berlin International Residency, the 2016 Merit-Based Scholarship at Urban Glass, the 2014 Scott Cagenello Memorial-Prize, and the 2013 Ruth Crockett Award.If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review and subscribe and tell your friends!    If you have an art question you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com- About the Podcast -    host: Isaac Wexler-Mannwww.isaacmann.cominsta: @isaac.mannguest: Katie Hector www.katiehector.cominsta: @katiehector