Katie Cercone "America is my Broken Home"
Katie Cercone "America is my Broken Home" 2025
Hand-sewn Fabric Assemblage
Dimensions: 110 x 45 in
Unique
Signed on Recto and Verso, Includes Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Katie Cercone *Or Nah* is an artist, scribe, priextexx and spiritual gangsta hailing from the blessed coast. Cercone has performed or shown work in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Dallas Contemporary, Momenta Art, C24 Gallery, Changjiang Museum China, Dodge Gallery and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. As co-leader of the radical, queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops, Cercone spearheaded a 400-women strong takeover of the Whitney Museum in 2014 known as “The Clitney Perennial,” and was awarded the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice the same year. In 2015 she was a J.U.S.F.C. Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Her work has been featured in Dazed, MILK, Interview, Japan Times, Huffington Post, ART 21, Hyperallergic, PAPER, Art Fag City, Washington Post, and Art Net TV among others. Cercone has curated shows for Momenta Art, KARST (UK), Cue Art Foundation, Local Project and NurtureArt. Cercone is adjunct faculty at the School of Visual Arts where she teaches GENDER TROUBLE in the Visual & Critical Studies Department. A pioneer of Hip Hop Yoga Katie was awarded the Franklin Furnace Award Fund in 2020.
“My most recent body of work involves an in-depth visual study of the outer-lying feminist asteroids, presented online as astro-memes, physically as astro-feminist “pillow pictures” and performative, socially-engaged pop-up astro-oracles. Initially the focus is upon seven archetypal energies associated with a decolonized queer asteroid cosmology. The asteroid’s expansive non-binary trajectory represents a *quantum leap* for human consciousness, facilitating evolution from individual ego understanding to collective consciousness. Before the discovery of Asteroids, the only feminine significators in astrology were Venus and the Moon. When white men looked at the stars they saw themselves as heroes and villains – appointing two mere planets to the feminine, expecting neutered versions of the Moon and Venus to hold down the whole female half. Enter Grecian “sprung from a man’s head” Athena. Athena’s motherless origin epitomizes the misogyny of Greek myth, while asteroid Athena represents the movement of soul-development toward androgyny balancing male-female polarities from within. With the Moon and Venus as a starting point, additional asteroids explored include Ceres (Mother aspect representing unconditional love); Lilith (Nature Malefic Anti-heroine); Pallas Athena (movement of soul-development toward androgyny); Vesta (autonomous sex for inner spiritual union); Juno (guardian of marriage, childbirth and conflict resolution); Hygeia (Self-care marrying science and sensitivity); Sappho (The Empath - desolation, jealousy, rapture) and Gonggong (Trickster/Cosmic Mischief Maker).” - Katie Cercone
Learn more about her artworks and exhibitions on our website.