Katherine Keltner
USA (United States)
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Mischtechnik
Stil: Abstrakt
Statement:
All of my works are connected by an impulse to interpret and impose a structure on the ethereal or passing moment: an attempt to control the organic. My source materials are shadows, water, dirt, acorns, text (non-organic). From these materials – what I think of as sketches – I try to extract data with which to construct a system of description.
While the works remain a portrait of the original object or image, they no longer “look” like what they began as. Instead, they are a series of marks that make up another way to describe the original object, something perhaps like a DNA footprint.
Line is visible throughout my work, whether as a graphite, hand-drawn line, a line of light, a line of circles, or a line of thread. These lines exist deliberately within an established space, but once within these boundaries, the lines endlessly repeat. The rounded shapes I draw, the thread I wrap myself in, the lines I draw, the webs I weave, the tree branches I wrap, all stem from the belief that the making is a process of thought in itself, and that repeating an idea, an action, beyond the point of necessity, will render something other than what I planned as the final form.
At the root of this work is a desire to capture what is essentially unrecordable as a means to understand what seems to be orderless. If I can freeze something that doesn’t really stop (ultimately time) and make tangible what isn’t, then I can examine the components that make it up and begin to place myself within a context beyond what I can see and touch.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Katherine Keltner studied both Art and Architecture at the graduate level and Critical Theory as an undergraduate. All of these studies inform her ongoing work that deals with time, process and space. She works on canvas and paper, and in installations using a variety of material including light, string, and various found natural materials. Her work has been shown at Max Protetch, Rabbit Hole Studio and Real Art Ways. She has given lectures at the University of Oklahoma and City College of New York and has taught at Marymount Manhattan College and served on numerous juries at schools in the New York area including Columbia University, Parsons The New School, and City College. She lives in New York City with her husband, an architect, and is an active member of the emerging women’s art cooperative, tART.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
tART - www.tartnyc.com
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