Kate Ericson
Kate Ericson was born in 1955 in New York City and shared an artistic practice with Mel Ziegler from 1979 until her death in 1995. Synthesizing conceptual, land art, and interventionist strategies, they developed a distinctly American community-based art outside the orbit of NY. Ericson and Ziegler received BFAs from Kansas City Art Institute and MFAs at CalArts. Working with local iconography, sites, and communities across America, they created works and staged interventions with and for these communities. They were the subject of solo exhibitions at the MOMA, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Austin Museum of Art, and their work is in major collections including the Whitney Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ericson was due to enter the Loeb Fellowship in 1994. After her passing, Ziegler became a Loeb from 1996-97 and continued an artistic practice founded on the strategies established during their collaboration.