Congratulations to MFA candidate Katharine Miele on her joint exhibition with Ana Carolina Mendoza at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Greenville, SC. Curated by Rachel de Cuba, Placement in Process was on view from July 2 through July 25.

Placement in Process displays works that respond to the formerly domestic space, de Cuba writes of the exhibition,

“Centering on the mechanisms of material manipulation the exhibition considers the circular nature of construction and deconstruction. The works featured in the space are formal explorations of line, shape, and form that speak to architectural elements. Ana Carolina Meza works with rhythmic geometry to create scaled structures of PLA material in a limited color palette, conceptually considering movement, displacement, and immigration. Katharine Miele considers the signs of wear and ritualistic usage as forms of storytelling and physical movement through embroidery and work with found objects. Together Meza and Miele work to examine objecthood as a way of understanding connection and place. Through architecturally influenced mechanisms the artists create dialogue around the impermanent nature of spatial relationships.”  

Katharine Miele is a contemporary embroidery and stained glass artist. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she received her BFA  in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking from Georgia State University in 2016. By the time of her graduation, she was awarded the Mary Brock Williams Atlanta Artist Center Scholarship Award for outstanding achievement in painting, a Dean’s art award, and the opportunity to present research at the Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference. Before beginning graduate school at the University of Georgia, she attended a residency at the Vermont Studio Center on a merit grant. Katharine won a Shelter Projects grant from the Willson Center and Flagpole Magazine, the Tom Hollingsworth Research Scholarship, and a graduate research grant also from the Willson Center. Katharine now teaches middle grades art enrichment at Odyssey Atlanta and will begin teaching lower school art at the International Charter School of Atlanta in the fall of 2021.