Katia Santibanez and James Siena

Katia Santibanez and James Siena are abstract artists that work independently but have also collaborated on two sets of woodcuts with Mae Shore of Cheymore Gallery.

Mae describes their first visual collaboration as a fascinating process, like a game of chess as one is required to think many moves ahead. There is no going back and no changing the image once the round of paper has been printed. As Katia and James traded the blocks between printings, they navigated their cutting based on the other’s prior cutting. Move by move the images were created, alternating between Katia’s and James’s hands. Each layer is recognizable to their particular style but comes together in the most harmonic way.

Katia and James live and work in the both NYC and the Berkshires.