Kate Pocrass

Kate Pocrass is an artist, illustrator and surface designer working from her studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been doing textile pattern, surface design and illustration work for clients in the apparel and publishing industries since 2001. Kate is the author and illustrator of several guided journals and gift products published by Chronicle Books. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is often encountered outside the gallery via hotlines, books, magazines, printed ephemera, bus tours, and participatory websites. Kate is the founding editor of Mundane Times - stories of connection through a lonely year, Average - a magazine about average things & averages and has self published the books Mundane Journeys and Mundane Field Guide to Color. Her work was included in Bay Area Now 4 at the YBCA in San Francisco & the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. Kate was a 2011 Artist in Residence at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, and a recipient of a Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship.

Kate is an avid traveler and much of her work stems from reminiscing about the minutiae of excursions abroad or contemplating frequent visits to her corner store. No matter what the destination, she is a firm believer that the time en route to a destination and interactions along the way are usually much more memorable than the stopping place.