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Katie Grinnan — Haptic Circuit
Katie Grinnan

Haptic Circuit

2020

Haptic Circuit is a compact yet charged work on paper in which Katie Grinnan traces intersecting pathways using conductive copper pen and ink, producing a surface that is simultaneously drawing and diagram, aesthetic object and latent system. Rendered in 2020 and measuring just under letter-size at 21.6 by 27.9 centimeters, the piece rewards close looking, its metallic lines carrying the quiet suggestion of electricity, touch, and signal transmission. The choice of conductive medium is far from incidental. Grinnan has long engaged with technologies of perception, bodily experience, and the invisible forces that structure how we move through and respond to the world, and this work distills those preoccupations into a precise, hand-held object. The title reinforces that layered sensibility, yoking the physiological, haptic sensation, the experience of texture and pressure registered through the body, to the engineering logic of a circuit. What results is a meditation on connection itself, on how information, feeling, and energy travel between points and between people. Signed by the artist and presented unframed, Haptic Circuit is available through the LAXART Benefit Auction, with the work courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. For collectors drawn to work that situates the hand, the body, and emergent technology in genuine dialogue, this is a rare opportunity to acquire a piece that carries both conceptual rigor and intimate scale.

Medium
Conductive coppen pen and ink
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Katie Grinnan, Haptic Circuit, 2020

Haptic Circuit is a compact yet charged work on paper in which Katie Grinnan traces intersecting pathways using conductive copper pen and ink, producing a surface that is simultaneously drawing and diagram, aesthetic object and latent system. Rendered in 2020 and measuring just under letter-size at 21.6 by 27.9 centimeters, the piece rewards close looking, its metallic lines carrying the quiet suggestion of electricity, touch, and signal transmission. The choice of conductive medium is far from incidental. Grinnan has long engaged with technologies of perception, bodily experience, and the invisible forces that structure how we move through and respond to the world, and this work distills those preoccupations into a precise, hand-held object. The title reinforces that layered sensibility, yoking the physiological, haptic sensation, the experience of texture and pressure registered through the body, to the engineering logic of a circuit. What results is a meditation on connection itself, on how information, feeling, and energy travel between points and between people. Signed by the artist and presented unframed, Haptic Circuit is available through the LAXART Benefit Auction, with the work courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. For collectors drawn to work that situates the hand, the body, and emergent technology in genuine dialogue, this is a rare opportunity to acquire a piece that carries both conceptual rigor and intimate scale.

Medium
Conductive coppen pen and ink
Dimensions
overall: 21.6 x 27.9 cm
Year
2020
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
LAXART Benefit Auction

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