Katrina Sánchez: Kwee•den•seh
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery proudly presents Kwee·Den·Seh, the gallery’s second solo exhibition by the fiber artist Katrina Sanchez. This body of work, grounded in repetition and ritual, explores comfort as an act of care, survival, and resistance in times of grief, instability, and violence. The title Kwee Den Seh, a phonetic spelling of the Spanish word Cuídense (“take care of yourselves”), reflects Sanchez’s practice of creating spaces of tenderness and connection.
Rather than offering a resolution, the works hold space for emotional intensity, meeting the weight of the moment with softness, chromatic saturation, and tactile depth. Sanchez incorporates a vintage punchcard knitting machine, threading butterflies. The symbols of migration and transformation.
Anchoring one wall of the exhibition is a series of four woven panels, robust in texture and presence. Made from vibrantly colored eyelash yarn, creating visual fluff. Sanchez invites both overstimulation and meditation.
Katrina Sánchez is a Panamanian-American artist based in Charlotte, NC. Working between fiber and soft sculpture she explores connection, healing and power in her work. Knitting and stuffing each “knitted noodle”, used as oversized linear forms to construct her works, she engages the soft materiality of textiles to play with the magnitude of comfort. Katrina combines knit and woven structures to push vibrant color and texture into space and is interested in establishing space for tenderness and joy while pushing scale to create a sensory effect of playful confrontation and power in her work. Sánchez received a BFA in Fibers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is a collective member of Goodyear Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; including recent exhibitions at Future Fair (Solo presentation, NYC) and Volta Art (Basel, Switzerland). She has worked with companies such as Lowe’s, MTV, Credit Karma, Truist, and Ally bank, Fidelity Investments and is currently working on a new body of works for a solo intervention presentation at the Mint Museum Randolph.