Kathy Vargas

Visual Artist

1950 –

97

Who is Kathy Vargas?

Kathy Vargas is an American photographer.

Kathy Vargas became interested in the hand-coloured photography around 1970. A few years later, while working on a documentary project about yard shrines in her home town of San Antonio, Texas, she began researching Mexican and pre-Columbian myths and literature, and to produce works based on a photographic 'magic realism' involving layering by multiple exposure and hand colouring.

In 1993 she produced a portfolio titled, Revelaciones, and a year later was published in Nueva Luz photographic journal, volume 4#2

Kathy Vargas currently teaches in the art department at The University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX.

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Born
Jun 23, 1950
San Antonio
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Texas at Austin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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