Artist: Katy McKormack

Exhibition Title: Spooky Action at a Distance

Exhibition Dates: April 13 - 17, 2026

Reception and Gallery Talk: April 15, 2026

Artist Bio

 Katy McCormack explores familial relationships specifically related to the women in her family.  Her work combines elements of memory and identity. She often features film and video with her photographic images, creating multi-dimensional works.  Her photographs have recently been exhibited in South Carolina, Alabama, and Minnesota. 

Artist Statement: 

 Spooky Action at a Distance looks to the past to understand what it is to be a woman in the fraught present.   In quantum physics, spooky action describes a phenomenon where when particles become entangled, they mirror aspects of each other no matter how far apart or what lies between them.  When knowing one, you know something about all.
Four generations of the women in my family are entangled by genetics, trauma, shared experiences and societal issues.   The current generation is confronted with societal issues that similarly affected my grandmother’s generation.  Circumstance, constraints and incidents contribute to the building blocks of who we are as women, mothers, daughters, sisters. Events that entangle and bind make clear our connection, situations and vulnerabilities.  Exploring the past, contemplating the future and exposing parallels across generations, some unsettling, led me to reflect upon the theory of “spooky action at a distance.”  
By combining, deconstructing, and reconstructing images and film stills from my families archive I explore how memory and history are shaped through visual narrative. Contact prints from vintage and contemporary photos are obscured using darkroom techniques and printing through fabric. The identity of the subject becomes inverted and ambiguous, disrupting the continuity of time and blurring the lines of who each of us could be. The story is set and repeats throughout; regardless of the medium. From negative still images to my grandfather’s super 8 to my digital video the narrative remains an entangled loop.