How This Artist Is Using Ancient Ice and Stardust to Create Neo-Metaphysical Art
Katie Paterson is currently the subject of a solo show with James Cohan in New York.
For her first substantial presentation in New York in almost a decade, Scottish artist Katie Paterson has endeavored to create a space where the cosmos and Earth merge.
On view through February 22, 2025, at James Cohan Gallery’s 52 Walker Street, Paterson’s exhibition, “There is another sky,” includes a range of pieces that reflect her expanded approach to art-making, featuring unusual materials that are hard to come by and informed by investigative research and collaborations with scientists, geologists, perfumers, and craftspeople. In one work, a lacquer infused with the ashes of over 10,000 tree species took years to source and develop. Another piece includes stardust. Evergreen (2022) is the first-ever image archive of extinct flowering plants that Paterson created in collaboration with a botanical illustrator and scientists.