Kate Steciw (born 1978 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary artist working in Brooklyn, New York, who uses sculpture, photography, video, and image manipulation in her artwork.
For 10 years she worked a day job as an image retoucher at Art + Commerce and made pieces in her spare time.
[1][2] Kate Steciw's works examine the evolving understanding of the physical object in relation to its digital representation and distribution online.
Steciw is often inspired by happenings in popular media, as well as works by Karl Marx, Pierre Bourdieu, Max Weber, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Siegfried Kracauer, and especially Knut Hamsun.
This installation consisted of her photographic works Exercises in Spacial Mnemonics (2011) and Versions on a Calico House Cat (2010), as well as her sculptural pieces Live Laugh Love (2012) and My Dog (2011).