Placement in Process brings together the work of artists Ana Carolina Meza and Katharine Miele. Centering on the mechanisms of material manipulation the exhibition considers the circular nature of construction and deconstruction. The works featured in the space are formal explorations of line, shape, and form that speak to architectural elements. Ana Carolina Meza works with rhythmic geometry to create scaled structures of PLA material in a limited color palette, conceptually considering movement, displacement, and immigration. Katharine Miele considers the signs of wear and ritualistic usage as forms of storytelling and physical movement through embroidery and work with found objects. Together Meza and Miele work to examine objecthood as a way of understanding connection and place. Through architecturally influenced mechanisms the artists create dialogue around the impermanent nature of spatial relationships.  

Katharine Miele is a contemporary embroidery and stained glass artist. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she received her BFA  in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking from Georgia State University in 2016. By the time of her graduation, she was awarded the Mary Brock Williams Atlanta Artist Center Scholarship Award for outstanding achievement in painting, a Dean’s art award, and the opportunity to present research at the Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference. Before beginning graduate school at the University of Georgia, she attended a residency at the Vermont Studio Center on a merit grant. Prior to receiving her MFA from UGA in 2021, Katharine won a Shelter Projects grant from the Willson Center and Flagpole Magazine, the Tom Hollingsworth Research Scholarship, and a graduate research grant also from the Willson Center. Katharine now teaches middle grades art enrichment at Odyssey Atlanta and will begin teaching lower school art at the International Charter School of Atlanta in the fall of 2021.

Ana C. Meza is a sculpture artist from Colombia based in Atlanta, GA. In 2008 she immigrated from Colombia to the United States. She graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Interior Architecture and sculpture degree from Indiana University. She received an MFA from Georgia State University in 2019, where she received a full-tuition scholarship. Her artwork’s common themes include Immigration, The in-between, Social identity, Political, and personal power structures.

She is currently an instructor at Georgia State University and Mercer University in Macon. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally. Some of her most notable exhibition venues include Atlanta Contemporary, Aqua Art Miami, and Kyoto International community House in Japan.