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Katie Burgoon

Katie Burgoon
BFA Studio Art, Art History Minor
Penfield, NY
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Biography

Katherine Burgoon was born in Penfield, New York, in December of 1997. She has recently graduated from SUNY Oswego with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and an Art History Minor. While in college, Katie has had her work exhibited in the gallery on campus in 2018 and 2020. She also worked as a desk attendant in the gallery at Tyler Hall. Katie has always been interested in art and, more specifically, drawing. In high school, she took as many art classes as she possibly could and enjoyed drawing and painting, and during her third semester at Oswego, Katie her passion for photography. During her past two semesters of college, she has taken Darkroom Photo and Experimental Photo and has enjoyed shooting with and developing film. Katie’s favorite subject to photograph is people, and she hopes to one day become a fashion photographer and have her work published in magazines. After graduating, she will look for jobs and internships at local establishments, such as the George Eastman Museum, while building a portfolio of paintings and photographs.

Artist Statement

My artwork is almost always about me, whether it’s a direct self-portrait, abstract self-portrait, or something that has to do with my family or a personal experience. I gravitate towards personal topics because I don’t know anything like the way I know myself. Even when the meaning of the work is specifically about me, my hope is that people will be able to relate to it and spark a conversation about what it means to them, and sometimes, I even gain a new perspective on my artwork. I often create self-portraits by drawing, painting, or photographing a subject that isn’t directly me but represents me. Doing it this way is what makes the work easy to relate to and open to interpretation. The subject of my work goes deeper than just me. Sometimes it’s about negative feelings and memories that I want to get out and leave behind, and other times, it’s something about me that I choose to embrace. Creating work with personal meanings makes it difficult for me to want to part with it. In the future, I’d like to create work that someone would want to have in their home. 

Before coming to SUNY Oswego, I was mostly interested in drawing and not at all in photography. While drawing will always be my first love, photography has really grown on me, specifically, fashion photography. My ultimate goal is to be an established, well-known fashion photographer and have my photographs in magazines. 

A close up painting of a woman pulling up her orange lip to expose her blue teeth and yellow tongue

Tooths
30" x 36"
Fall 2018
Painting III
A close up painting of a woman pulling up her orange lip to expose her blue teeth and yellow tongue.

A painting of a mouth with a balloon animal dog inside.

Teeth
Oil on Canvas
10 x 13 “
Fall 2020
Painting III
A painting of a mouth with a balloon animal dog inside.

A blue figure beneath a colorful painted bouquet.

Water Me #1
Cyanotype and Acrylic Paint
15" x 14"
Fall 2020
Independent Study 
A blue figure beneath a colorful painted bouquet.

A still life drawing of mannequins legs.

Mannequin Still Life
Charcoal
Spring 2018
Intermediate Drawing
A still life drawing of mannequins legs.

A stylized painting of grapefruit slices.

Grapefruit
Oil on Canvas Board
9" x 11"
Fall 2018
Painting II
A stylized painting of grapefruit slices.

A photograph of an old winery house in the daylight.

Wine Tasting
Film Photography
September 2019
A photograph of an old winery house in the daylight.

A landscape photograph of a park and trees.

The Clark Museum
Film Photography
September 2019
A landscape photograph of a park and trees.

A photograph of a lobby with a man sitting in a chair and a statue holding a bow and arrow.

The Clark Museum Lobby
Film Photography
September 2019
A photograph of a lobby with a man sitting in a chair and a statue holding a bow and arrow.

A blue figure beneath a colorful painted bouquet.

Water Me #2
Cyanotype and Acrylic Paint
13" x 15"
Fall 2020
A blue figure beneath a colorful painted bouquet.

A woman looking to the right, holding her hair up.

Water me #3
Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper
2020
A woman looking to the right, holding her hair up.

 cyanotype image with the words “sunshine daydream” in the center.

Sunshine Daydream
Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper
Spring 2020
A cyanotype image with the words “sunshine daydream” in the center.

A collage of magazine and paper cut outs with various words relating to body image.

The Power of the Body
Mixed Media Collage
Spring 2020
2D Design
A collage of magazine and paper cut outs with various words relating to body image.