Meet Katie

 

 

Katie Gong (b. California) is an artist recognized for her innovative steam-bent wood sculptures. Trained as a painter, her practice bridges fine art, design, and craftsmanship—rooted in early experiences in her grandfather’s woodshop, where invention and material curiosity intertwined.

Inspired by the California landscape and the natural fluidity of wood, her work explores the possibility of transformation—taking a material known for its rigidity and, through heat and pressure, rendering it momentarily soft. In this fleeting state, she reshapes it into forms that embody the tension between permanence and change.

Her sculptures have been exhibited widely throughout the Bay Area and across the United States.