Kathryn Hart -- Statement
A painting with heart should come from the gut, expose a piece of the artist in a very raw way. My works reflect the human condition, all of its crags and crevices, what we want others to see and what we hide…who we are when we are alone and our endless ability to rise from the ashes. I am guided by feeling, not a specific image in my head.
Profile & bio
Kathryn Hart is a contemporary abstract painter and sculptor living in Colorado. Hart’s mixed media works seep with raw, personal history, but the stories are timelessly relevant. Her work exudes a sense of loss, longing and an ultimate belief in renewal.
Hart’s iterative process of construction and deconstruction reveals the painting’s history and the artist’s journey. What is taken away leaves a footprint, contributing to the whole as much as what remains. Often, her works are 3D while maintaining a 2D modern aesthetic.
Hart’s current work searches for the unswayable feminine identity and its philosophical essence amid the influences of culture, heritage and personal experience.
An internationally award-winning artist, Hart actively shows her work in New York City and Europe. Her work has hung in numerous museums across the U.S. and internationally. She is a United Nations art award recipient and invited UN juror. Ms. Hart’s work is archived in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
...Hart possesses an apparently unshakable sense of purpose and certainty about her creative vocation...a unique personal style, which imparts a relief-like sculptural dimension to the art of painting, even while preserving the sanctity of the two dimensional picture plane so central to modernist aesthetics.
There is no room for illusion in Hart's paintings, which excavate a deep mystery from the actual physically palpable substance of pigment...a sense of a submerged narrative that lends Hart's work much of its mystery, depth and poetry."
Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio Magazine; June 2012; NY, NY
about the artist
Kathryn Hart rediscovered her passion for art after she was well entrenched in another career. "I was always artsy as a young child, but being the youngest in a predominantly scientific family, that spark got overwhelmed. Creativity and imagination wasn't valued much in my family...only what you could prove.
As a market researcher for major medical companies, my job was to uncover the unseen need, find the niche not-yet-discovered and focus on the gap, not the things that actually existed. I am fascinated with human body...all that lies beneath the surface unseen, the unexplainable and the infinite human psyche. But after fifteen years, the thought of climbing another corporate rung left me hollow. One summer I took a drawing class and all of my childhood creativity and passion for art came flooding back to me. My life had always involved art but now I was the one creating it. I delved into my passion, studying with artists I admire and catching up on the art education I never got. I came back to what I had always been. I became a painter. All of the 'looking for the unseen' has come full circle with my painting."
Ms. Hart currently resides in Larkspur, Colorado with her husband, Dennis, and their 4 cats -- Oliver, Masai, Rishi and Picasso.
Kathryn Hart
Contemporary Abstract Paintings & Sculpture
Profile & bio
Kathryn Hart is a contemporary abstract painter and sculptor living in Colorado. Hart’s mixed media works seep with raw, personal history, but the stories are timelessly relevant. Her work exudes a sense of loss, longing and an ultimate belief in renewal.
Hart’s iterative process of construction and deconstruction reveals the painting’s history and the artist’s journey. What is taken away leaves a footprint, contributing to the whole as much as what remains. Often, her works are 3D while maintaining a 2D modern aesthetic.
Hart’s current work searches for the unswayable feminine identity and its philosophical essence amid the influences of culture, heritage and personal experience.
An internationally award-winning artist, Hart actively shows her work in New York City and Europe. Her work has hung in numerous museums across the U.S. and internationally. She is a United Nations art award recipient and invited UN juror. Ms. Hart’s work is archived in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
There is no room for illusion in Hart's paintings, which excavate a deep mystery from the actual physically palpable substance of pigment...a sense of a submerged narrative that lends Hart's work much of its mystery, depth and poetry."
Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio Magazine; June 2012; NY, NY
As a market researcher for major medical companies, my job was to uncover the unseen need, find the niche not-yet-discovered and focus on the gap, not the things that actually existed. I am fascinated with human body...all that lies beneath the surface unseen, the unexplainable and the infinite human psyche. But after fifteen years, the thought of climbing another corporate rung left me hollow. One summer I took a drawing class and all of my childhood creativity and passion for art came flooding back to me. My life had always involved art but now I was the one creating it. I delved into my passion, studying with artists I admire and catching up on the art education I never got. I came back to what I had always been. I became a painter. All of the 'looking for the unseen' has come full circle with my painting."
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