Katrina DeMarcus Santiago

vejigante vessel, 2025

Marbled Stoneware, Underglaze and Drip Glazed Edge

5.5 x 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Courtesy of the artist

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Katrina DeMarcus Santiago is an Atlanta-based multimedia artist whose work is rooted in icons of nostalgia as markers of memory and preservation. Her work explores color, shape and light as it relates to her own layered identities as a boricua and a third-culture kid growing up in the South. DeMarcus Santiago has her BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute in New York and focuses largely on reinterpreting central figures that line the memories of her coming of age in both Atlanta and Puerto Rico including the vejigante, orchids, and the soft turns of the body. Her textile mascara caretas are hand-knit and crochet - a softer adaptation of the iconic cultural symbol, and the vejigante is prominently featured on her ceramic works as well - marbled vessels reflecting the natural softness and shapes DeMarcus Santiago pulls from the world around her. Her work has been featured in the Rosehouse Art Residency in Cobbleskill, New York, on Adult Swim's Assembly Line Yeah!, and the Mijita Art Collective. She is currently working and living in Atlanta, GA.