Katrina Sánchez: Kwee•den•seh: Solo Exhibition | Los Angeles

Abigail Ogilvy Gallery proudly presents Kwee·den·seh, the gallery’s second solo exhibition by fiber artist Katrina Sánchez. A body of work that analyzes repeated patterns, the presentation on view emphasizes ritual, connection, and community. The title represents the phonetic spelling of the Spanish word Cuídense, an everyday phrase meaning “take care of yourselves.” The phrase speaks to Sánchez’s practice, referencing self-soothing, mutual care, and tenderness experienced when surrounded by the artwork. This exhibition explores comfort as a form of care, survival, and resistance in the face of overwhelming grief, instability, and systemic violence. The work emerges from a personal need for safety and grounding during a time when so much in the world feels devastating.

Rather than offering resolution, the works hold space for emotional saturation, meeting the weight of the moment with softness, repetition, and chromatic intensity. Through fiber and form, comfort is both subject and material, like a tactile language for self-soothing, reflection, and embodied resilience.

Opening Reception | Saturday, September 13th, 2025 | 5 - 8 PM

1923 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Complimentary valet available. 

Katrina Sánchez is a Panamanian-American artist based in Charlotte, NC. Working between fiber and soft sculpture she explores connection, healing and power in her work. Knitting and stuffing each “knitted noodle”, used as oversized linear forms to construct her works, she engages the soft materiality of textiles to play with the magnitude of comfort. Katrina combines knit and woven structures to push vibrant color and texture into space and is interested in establishing space for tenderness and joy while pushing scale to create a sensory effect of playful confrontation and power in her work. Sánchez received a BFA in Fibers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is a collective member of Goodyear Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; including recent exhibitions at Future Fair (Solo presentation, NYC) and Volta Art (Basel, Switzerland). She has worked with companies such as Lowe’s, MTV, Credit Karma, Truist, and Ally bank, Fidelity Investments and is currently working on a new body of works for a solo intervention presentation at the Mint Museum Randolph.