We encountered Katinka Matson while reminding ourselves of the annual question presented at the start of 2016 over at Edge. So we went looking for more about her. We agree with all the sentiments expressed on this artist’s own website:
“Her floral pictures are so intense that looking at them, you almost get the feeling that you are able to peer around the flowers themselves.” — The New York Times Magazine
“… Simply marvelous… images of such Natural beauty that they instill in the observer new perceptions… an incredible harmonious blend of colors and shapes.”— Collezioni (Italy)
“Ever since Marcel Duchamp mounted the front wheel of a bicycle onto a bar stool, the anarchic use of everyday technologies has been part of the standard repertoire of Modern Art. Usually such works question our perception by distorting reality. The flower images by the New York artist Katinka Matson are different for their exactness and completeness: the surreal aura of her pictures come from their enormous clarity. The flowers seem to radiate from the inside and the details are recognizable into the last fiber as though they were being viewed under a magnifying glass.”— Sueddeutsche Zeitung
“Katinka Matson: Flowers’ features incredibly lifelike images of lilies and tulips, with every drop of dew and grain of pollen magnified.”— The Wall Street Journal
“Katinka’s works are reminiscent of the works of Mapplethorpe or of Georgia O’Keefe”—Il Secolo XIX (Genoa)
“Imagine a painter who could, like Vermeer, capture the quality of light that a camera can, but with the color of paints . . . She is at the forefront of a new wave in photography.”— Kevin Kelly, Executive Editor, Wired
“Speechless: Katinka Matson’s flowers are magnificent and surreally real.”—AD Magazine (Munich)
“Her floral pictures are so intense that looking at them, you almost get the feeling that you are able to peer around the flowers themselves.”— La Stampa (Turin)
“An amazing digital artist, merging the technological with the botanical in a beautiful way…. Towering, dense and richly hued…[her] work is raw, striking, if not shocking. There is honest power in this fusion of technology with nature.”— CBS News
