New York City October 2014
Review excerpts from Gallery&Studio Magazine (NY, NY)
"Kathryn Hart transforms pictorial space with rugged mixed media compositions, such as, "Veiled Attempt." This large work in burlap, wood and objects, like most of Hart's compositions merges painting and sculpture with often unsettling subject matter in a manner that caused one viewer to comment, "She's like a more abstract Francis Bacon...
...Like all of Kathryn Hart's recent work, this is strong stuff, not for the squeamish."
-- Byron Coleman, NYC art critic
A Treasure Trove of Memories at New Century Artists Gallery
Oscar Wilde once said, "Memory...is the diary we all carry about with us." In the exhibit, "Memories," curated by Basha Maryanska, seen recently at the New Century Artists Gallery, eleven artists provide intimate journals of the emotions and memories of their interior lives in vibrant colors…
The painter and sculptor, Kathryn Hart presents her intimacies in all their raw power. Combining found objects with painted surfaces, her work is dramatic and sculptural as she examines the vulnerability of human beings with work incorporating canvas and cloth, with gashed, torn surfaces in her dense, dark pieces, reminding us of the human soul at midnight in a most solitary place where phantasms come as in the dreams of Francisco Goya. A surgeon's daughter, she is influenced by the techniques of that discipline as evidenced in her mixed media collage with objects entitled, "Barbarians at The Gate" where layers and lines of protection against an invading, threatening force desperately defend the subject through a broken, barred wooden gate, surgical strings curled like mine field wires, and painted burlap suggesting gauze staunching a wound, keeping the psyche safe from menacing memories.
In this exhibit, all eleven artists interpreted memories in an expressive gamut, sometimes somber, reflective, felicitous, or ironic, documented with consummate artistic verve. Individualistic, they mounted a show rich in attitudes and styles intriguing and delighting this viewer with their range of color and subject matter.
—Anne Rudder
12 GALLERY&STUDIO SPRING 2015
Dreams Come to Light at New Century Artists Gallery
|
When we dream, we visit landscapes of the inner life, the unconscious world beneath our mundane exteriors, opening us to the elusive, fantastic realm that has always been documented by the artist's hand. In the exhibit, "Dreams," the artists visit this subliminal place, in a varied show strong with vibrant color, texture and energy. |
Kathryn Hart, in her mixed media piece, "Lunar Face," constructs a dramatic three dimensional entity on the anchoring picture plane. The painted surface textile is torn as if exposing wounds below the surface. It is a bleak piece, evoking a feeling of the desolate lunar landscape. Hart tears away at conventional reality, just as the beautiful luster of the moon, belies the barren, lifeless object that it truly is…
The artists in this show all explored the territory lying beneath the surface through evocative, textured, dramatic work, connecting the viewer with the inner world, allowing thought and emotion to consciously bring the imagination forward. Here, the artists' dreams and thoughts are consummately realized.
—Anne Rudder
16 GALLERY&STUDIO SPRING 2015