Katya Jackson

Katya Stavisky Jackson is a Los Angeles–based printmaker and painter exploring mythology, introspection, nature, and the tension between independence and connection.

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.

MS, Mechanical Engineering 2017 from Stanford University
BS, Product Design 2015 from Stanford University

2026 The Other Art Fair LA

(Forthcoming) 2026 Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking Competition, Ironbridge, UK Juried exhibition (3 works selected)

2026 California Society of Printmakers Annual Members Show, Piedmont CA

2025 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK
Selected for Director's Cut (curated exhibition within the fair)

2025 Impressions in Ink: Celebrating Printmaking in All Forms, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Juried by Eileen Parent

2025 Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking Competition, Ironbridge, UK Juried exhibition (4 works selected)

2025 Original Prints: A National Printmaking Showcase PrintAustin, Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX Juried by Rigoberto Luna

2025 Pressing Matters, Annual Print Show, The Makery, Los Angeles, CA

2025 AIMPE: Awagami International Mini Print Exhibition Awagami Inbe Art Space, Tokushima, Japan