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Artist Kathryn Hart (b. 1961, Dallas, TX) lives in Larkspur, CO. Rooted in personal history, her work plumbs the depths of love, loss, and the threshold of transformation. Themes become visible through hanging sculpture, installation, photography, drawing, and printmaking created from a personal diary of objects and symbols. Shadow, light, reflection, and gesture expand the artwork’s presence.
Hart exhibits globally. Recent site-specific installation highlights include “the other voice” in Gandia, Spain (2020), and “New Dawn” with the European Cultural Centre, coinciding with the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Select solo shows include “Daunting Transitions,” Polytechnika Krakowska, Krakow (2018); “Searching,” School of Visual Arts, NYC (2018); “Metamorphosis,” Galeria SD Szucha 8, Warsaw, (2017) traveling from her solo exhibition at the Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY (2017). Other recent solo shows include Galeria 8+, Warsaw (2015); New Century Artists, NYC (2012, 2015); ArtHaus, Denver (2014); and Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC (2010)
Group exhibition venues include the Ateneo de Madrid; Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo; Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia; Novi Hram Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia; Oceanside MOA, California; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY; Archeological Museum, Gandia, Spain; Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales; Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan; Galerie Arytmia, Krakow; and Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV. Her work has been featured in The September Issues Magazine, Art Spiel, Estetica Pedagogica, Amparo Zacares Essays, Gallery&Studio Arts Journal, Diversions LA, and public TV (USA & Spain).
The artist exhibits in humanitarian projects worldwide. Sponsorships span Ajuntament de Gandia (2020), European Cultural Center (2019), European Cultural Academy (2019), Council of Europe (2016), the Ministries of Art and Culture of France and Poland (2015, 2014), and the US Embassies (2015). Hart has received many awards, including the United Nation’s “Harmony for Peace” prize in 2010.
Hart was the first solo artist in the Judy Pfaff Residency Program, Tivoli, NY, in its inaugural year (2020) and had a second solo residency the following year (2021). Other select residencies include a four-artist Michael David/Judy Pfaff Residency in Brooklyn, NY (2020) and many in Poland.
Public collections include Cultura Gandia, SP; Levis Fine Art, NY; Nevada Museum of Art + Environment; Palazzo Michiel Hotel Collection of Locanda ai Santi Apostoli, Venice, IT; Myslenice Cultural Center, Poland, in association with the Ministries of Art and Culture of France and Poland; University of Texas at Austin; AVAPO Mestre Cancer Support Center, Venice, Italy; Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, Las Vegas, NV; and Galeria 33, Ostrow, PL. The National Museum of Women in the Arts archives her work in association with the National Association of Women Artists.
Hart holds a BA in International Relations from Boston University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington. She spent a year in London working in international trade and studying Art History and European History. Post-graduate studies include the European Cultural Academy, Venice, IT; School of Visual Arts (CE), NYC, NY; the Node Center, Berlin, DE. Hart has worked extensively with Guggenheim Fellows Judy Pfaff and Michael David. Before turning to full-time studio practice, the artist had a career in international medical research.
Hart’s affiliations are A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Artnauts Art Collective.
Kathryn Hart works in a geodesic dome studio designed by Buckminster Fuller.
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I make work that plumbs the depths of love, loss, and transformation’s threshold. These themes become visible through hanging sculpture, installation, black and white photography, drawing, and monoprints. Chosen materials stem from a private diary and refer to caretaking others, bodily scars, and childhood. Airy sculptures of long horsehair, barbed wire, glass medicinal ampoules, latex tubing, and bioluminescent resins sway from ambient conditions. Shadow and reflection amplify the large works.; meticulous and intimate labor invites close examination.
My current focus is deeply personal. For a decade, I saw my late husband in looping cycles of striving and fading through the stages of his terminal illness. His determination to expand in the face of growing limitations stays with me forever. I walk through the forest next to my home and have noticed its changes for over 20 years. It displays a similar unyielding effort to thrive and renew in an environment that can no longer support its former life. Corporeal energy fades and transforms into its essence. While no longer earthly, its presence remains palpable.
My black and white photography series convey elastic time and immediate moments. The photos blur, bend, stretch, and stop time. Scenes posing a tension between light and dark, renewal and decay, conflict and harmony, and the timeless and the unique interest me. The silver gelatin printing process offers lush darks rich for exploration that suggests the world is not as binary as it might seem.
Many materials I use serve as fractals, complete polaroids of my past. Propelled by the requisite vulnerability and honesty of bearing witness, I work to extract raw, embedded emotion and bring it to light. This process sheds light into myself. Childhood weekends on a Texas farm and a scientific background have born an unflinching viewpoint.
AFFILIATIONS
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Artnauts Art Collective
hart.kathrynd@gmail.com
214-363-4025
...Hart possesses an apparently unshakable sense of purpose and certainty about her creative vocation...a unique personal style...which excavates 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, Editor-in-Chief, Gallery & Studio Magazine; June 2012; NY, NY