Katya Stavisky Jackson is a Los Angeles-based artist specializing in printmaking, painting, and traditional hand-crafts. Her work often explores themes of introspection, nature, and the tension between independence and connection.

Jackson maintains an active studio practice and teaches monthly printmaking workshops. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent recognition including selection for the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Director's Cut. She maintains an active Instagram under the persona @staviskystudio, where she showcases her in-progress work and experiments.

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Artist Statement

Printmaking is a slow accumulation—five layers, ten, twenty—where the image isn’t fully known at the start. I begin with drawings from observation or photographs, but in the studio I rediscover them, rewriting memory through repetition. The process asks for patience, intuition, and trust in my hand and in something less explainable that takes over as I work.

I'm interested in desire that lives in ordinary things. The heat of August fruit. The particular ache of wanting. Light at a specific hour. My prints try to hold these—not illustrate them, but press them into paper with enough force that they leave a mark.

Whether it’s the separation of colors for a woodblock or the repeated impressions on my etching press for a monotype, it’s this slow, iterative translation from mind to paper that draws me to printmaking as a medium. I revel in the unexpected transformation and reincarnation of an idea.