Screenshot of the Artforum obituary

Artforum published an obituary on the life of Katherine Porter on May 16, 2024.

"Porter was gifted in infusing forms that by nature ought to be emotionless—a triangle, a cube—with feeling: A shape conjuring a sense of featherlightness in one canvas might evoke a lugubrious heft in another, with such stark contrasts often occurring within a single work. As well, her paintings frequently commented on social and political circumstances and events, not directly, but in terms of the ripples they cast out into the wider world."