Emma Katka

Glimmers of Nostalgia for a Place You’ve Never Been

May 18, 2024 - August 25, 2024

Xcel Energy Gallery

Emma Katka, a self-taught artist from Grand Forks, ND, seeks solace through emotive photography and collage. Her stomping grounds for creation are often abandoned buildings, the open prairie, old magazines, and wherever inspiration illuminates moments within daily life. Glimmers of Nostalgia for a Place You’ve Never Been is Katka’s first solo-exhibition. This exhibition places her photographic catalogue in dialog with her collage work – thematically and aesthetically – and highlights how Katka’s practice of finding and piecing together found fragments gives new life to something forgotten.

Plains Art Museum thanks our generous PlainsArt4All members and donors, and our Organizational Partners for their support. Additional support provided by The McKnight Foundation, FM Area Foundation, The Arts Partnership, The FUNd at Plains Art Museum, and the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funds from the North Dakota Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Artist Talk
Thursday, June 27, 6-7 PM
Join us for a conversation with artist Emma Katka.

left to right: Emma Katka, Mayday, 2013, digital photograph, 16 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist • Emma Katka, System Failure, 2023, Analog collage, 12 x 12 in., Courtesy of the artist

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