Katherine Filice’s art is an expression, a reflection of memory—a reconciliation of past and present, a mediation of sorrow and loss, a journey towards grace and hope. Her step from representational to abstraction can be attributed to a nearly two-year participation in the Yellow Chair Salon, guided by Guggenheim Fellow, Michael David. While remaining obsessively devoted to the line, both literal and implied, her work takes on a highly conceptualized, intuitive form. Taking abstraction a step further, in many works Filice completely transgressed the 2D plane by physically manipulating her drawing surfaces, sculpting her paper, piece by piece. Filice creates her works by drawing or painting large figures, languages, patterns, often inspired by her environment, both natural and relational, onto sizeable sheets of Fabriano paper. In some works, she takes this a step further, and deconstructs, soaks, and reforms the shreds into enigmatic, textural kinetic forms. Both approaches retain fidelity to her original line work.