Fall Session

Session - 1: Oct 9th - Oct 27th

Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Roxana Kadyrova and Johanna Velasquez, who will collaborate on a project blending printmaking with early photography techniques.

Roxana Kadyrova & Johanna Velasquez

Roxana Kadyrova using a gossamer visual alphabet, disentangles our collective surreality. Through collage (spanning autobiographical photography and a personally totemic symbology) Kadyrova’s project is to evince a primitive sensitivity that approaches rootlessness. Her influences range from her Russian-Uzbeki roots in Moscow, her time spent in the School of Dramatic Arts (SFA), and her travels in the Maghreb. Roxana has the MFA Visual Arts Program at Columbia University (2023) roxanakadyrova.com 

Johanna Velasquez is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Through a combination of photomechanical and traditional processes, she investigates the complex relationship between her cultural identities, that of a Latin American raised in suburban “white” America. Her works reference themes of education, identity, labor, politics, and time. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from SUNY Purchase College and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. johannavelas.com 

Together we are to experiment with an alternative/analog photography process utilizing a large scale camera obscura that we would build in the woods of the Catskills, in an attempt to capture the landscape using a combination of printmaking and early photography. 

https://johannavelas.com

https://roxanakadyrova.com

Affiliation: Columbia