New Work at SOFA Chicago, November 3-6, 2016

The Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair in Chicago, Festival Hall at Chicago's Historic Navy Pier

Running since 1994, what distinguishes SOFA from other top art events is its focus on three-dimensional artworks that cross the boundaries of fine art, decorative art and design.  

Represented by the Duane Reed Gallery.

Two of my new panels will be on view:  Mapping the Wind, and Dark Matter. 

Click on photos to see larger images.

Mapping the Wind

Overview

Detail

Detail

Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, gold leaf embellishment, on birch panel

Measurements
48" wide, 24" high x 4" deep.

Dark Matter

Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, gold leaf embellishment, on birch panel

Measurements
48" wide, 36" high x 4" deep.

Katherine Glover -- Summer, 2016 Shows

Upcoming exhibits

ArtAspen, August 4-7, 2016

The seventh edition of ArtAspen returns to the Aspen Ice Garden August 4-7, showcasing approximately 30 art galleries, and featuring modern and contemporary art, particularly pieces from 1950-present. Setting is situated  with spectacular Ajax Mountain as the backdrop.

Represented by the Duane Reed Gallery.

Two of my panels will be on view:  Dark Matter and Chaco. 

Dark Matter

Click on image for larger view

Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, gold leaf embellishment, on birch panel

Measurements
49" wide, 36" high x 2.5" deep.  Overall size is 48" wide x 36" high x 5" deep

Chaco

Click on image for larger view

Materials

Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, gold leaf embellishment, on birch panel

Measurements

Diptych, two panels 24" wide, 36" high x 2.5" deep.  Overall size is 49" wide x 36" high.

Current exhibits

Fuller Craft Museum, Paper and Blade: Modern Paper-cutting

The field of paper craft is considered by many to be in the midst of a renaissance with a growing number of ingenious artists investigating the limitless potential of this simple, everyday material. Paper and Blade: Modern Paper Cutting celebrates the pioneering spirit of artists working in this genre with a curatorial focus on cut paper.

Included in this exhibit is my work, Fire in the Lake. 

Click on image for larger view

Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel

Measurements
40" wide x 60" high x 2.5" deep

Click on image for larger view

gallery view

On loan from the Duane Reed Gallery

Fuller Craft Museum, 2016 Biennial Members Exhibition

Open to most media and all themes, the exhibition spotlights a diverse group of students, emerging makers, mid-career artists, and established professionals.

My entry, Ctenophore, winner of the Jurors Selection Award.

Click on image for larger view

Materials

Clear packing tape, nylon monofilament, glass beads

Measurements

9" diameter, 9" high , filament poof extends an additional 2.5" all the way around

Katherine Glover, New Work on View at Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis

I took a partial hiatus from studio work during the first half of 2014 to curate the show, "Game Changers: Fiber Art Masters and Innovators", on view this fall at Fuller Craft Museum.  

I also spent some luxurious time experimenting with other media -- clay and pâte de verre, more on those later -- and making small maquettes to test new imagery and techniques for future panels.  By mid-summer I was ready to get back into the studio and kick some serious butt in preparation for the fall-winter art show season,

Two recently-completed panels feature new approaches that emerged from this semi-sabbatical. "Unwrapped" is my first panel design to incorporate a recognizable figurative element, in this case, an unfurling ribbon.  "Listen" incorporates a contrasting-color background, which emerges as its own significant design element, along with extreme exploration of topographic flow.

These two pieces, in company with "Fire in the Lake" (see blog entry of March 13, 2013), are on view September 12 - October 18, 2014, in the show, "Repetition, Rhythm, Pattern", curated by Jane Sauer, at the Duane Reed Gallery.

Click on images to enlarge:

Unwrapped

Materials:  Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel. Surface embellished with gold metal leaf.

Measurements:  48" wide x 36" high x 3" deep

Unwrapped, detail views

 *          *          *          *          *          *          *          *

Listen

Materials:  Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel. Surface embellished with gold metal leaf.

Measurements:  48" wide x 24" high, depth varies from 2"-6" deep

Listen, detail views

Katherine Glover, A New Panel Diptych

This most recently-completed work continues my exploration of negative space in the design.  Its design incorporates a further challenge, in that the gesture must sweep the intervening space between the two panels without stumbling. 

I wanted to create a background on which to float the design -- a surface that is both pristine and of the same texture as the the strips that form the wave.  I hoped to make it seem that the swirls are rising from the background, in the same way that a wave rises from the sea.  At its highest point, the wave crests about 3.5" higher than the surface, and at its lowest, it seemingly subsides into the surface.

click on  image to enlarge

Wave

First I adhered several full sheets of khadi paper flat to the panels, then built the wave on top of this, using graduated strips of torn khadi paper.  I hand-tinted gesso to match the natural color of the paper, then painted several layers of this over the entire piece.  This treatment gives the free-standing strips stability and additional body.  It also visually softens the paper edges so they seem more water-like.  I have gilded the edges of the paper strips that create the wave's visible surface with gold metal leaf.

click on  image to enlarge
 

Wave, detail

Bling-bling!

Materials: background is khadi sheets adhered to surface of birch panel; design is torn khadi paper strips adhered upright to this background.  Gesso.  Gold metal leaf embellishment.  

Dimensions:  Diptych -- overall piece measures 49"" wide x 48.5" high x about 4.5" deep

Katherine Glover, 1st in Spring work series

This piece began as an experiment with negative space.  During construction of several pieces in the past, spaces-as-yet-to-be-filled have intrigued me enough that I wondered how to include emptiness as a design element.  At last, with no pressing deadlines for a couple of months, I can experiment (as well as devote the necessary time and care to rearing our new little puppy)!  For this piece, I took a design element from a piece constructed last year, and opened it up on the panel:

click on image for larger view

Medusa

The piece is what I refer to as a "topographical piece", which is to say that the design includes hills and valleys rather than a uniformly flat surface.  I wanted it to look as though it is rising out of the panel.  The effect is more obvious from this angle:

click on picture to enlarge

Medusa, detail

I've also decided to leave the piece white, and not to alter its pristine character by applying metal leaf.  

Materials: torn khadi paper strips adhered to khadi sheets, on top of birch panel; gesso.
Dimensions: 36" wide x 36" high x about 4.5" deep.

Katherine Glover in Fiber Art Now Magazine

Please enjoy this article, "Big Paper", appearing in the recent issue of Fiber Art Now Magazine.

The article's first-page piece is my work, Fire in the Lake.

 click on photo to enlarge

Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel.

Measurements
40" wide x 60" high x 3" deep

The colors, wave patterns and energy flow in “Fire in the Lake” remind me of both leaping flames and the swift water currents.  In nature, the flow of heat in a fire follows the same laws of physics as the flow of water.  This piece attempts to incorporate the energy properties shared by both -- one becomes the other, and they become indistinguishable.

Katherine Glover, New Work, December, 2012

Recently completed and installed, a new commission piece inspired by photos from the Hubble Telescope of the Pleiades star cluster located in the constellation Orion.

click on images to enlarge

Pleiades

materials
Handmade Indian khadi paper, torn and colored with fluid acrylic, adhered to birch panel, surface embellished with gold and copper metal leaf

measurements
24" wide x 48" high x 3"

Pleiades, detail

Note gold leaf embellishment applied to frame, which extends the pattern beyond the piece proper.

Katherine Glover at SOFA/Chicago, 2012

November 1-4, 2012

Festival Hall, Navy Pier

Opening Night Gala and Preview:

Thursday, November 1st, 7:00PM - 9:00PM

http://www.sofaexpo.com

click on photo to enlarge

Chaco

Materials

Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel. Surface embellished with gold metal leaf.

Measurements

Diptych, overall is 49" wide x 36" high x 3" deep

represented by

Jane Sauer Gallery

652 Canyon Road

Santa Fe, NM 87501

tel: 505.995.8507

http://www.jsauergallery.com

Katherine Glover in American Craft Magazine

Please enjoy this feature article about my work, which appears in the recent issue of American Craft Magazine.

The wonderful aqua-blue piece featured in this story is a private commission.

click on photo to enlarge

Gyre

Materials

Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel. Surface embellished with silver metal leaf.

Measurements

36" wide x 36" high x 3" deep

Katherine Glover at SOFA/New York, 2012

April 20th - 23rd, 2012
Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York, NY, 10021

Opening Gala and Preview
Thursday Evening, April 19th
Private -- 5:00-9:00 PM
Public -- 7:00-9:00 PM

http://www.sofaexpo.com

click on photo to enlarge



Perpetual Ocean

Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel. Surface embellished with silver metal leaf.

Measurements
48" wide x 36" high x 3" deep

represented by
Jane Sauer Gallery
652 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
tel: 505.995.8507

http://www.jsauergallery.com

Katherine Glover at SOFA/New York, 2011

April 14th - 17th, 2011
Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York, NY, 10021

Opening Preview
Wednesday Evening, April 13th
Private -- 5:00-9:00 PM
Public -- 7:00-9:00 PM

http://www.sofaexpo.com


Fire in the Lake

click on images to enlarge






Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel

Measurements
40" wide x 60" high x 2.5" deep





Prometheus



Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel. Surface embellished with gold metal leaf.

Measurements
36" wide x 36" high x 3" deep

represented by
Jane Sauer Gallery, Booth 311
652 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
tel: 505.995.8507
http://www.jsauergallery.com

Katherine Glover at SOFA/New York 2010

Park Avenue Armory
April 16-19, 2010
Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York, NY, 10021
www.sofaexpo.com
~
represented by
Jane Sauer Gallery, Booth 111
652 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
www.jsauergallery.com
505.995.8507
~
click images to enlarge



"Oracle" -- sold

Materials:
Indian khadi paper strips, colored with fluid acrylic, adhered to birch panel, embellished with metal leaf

Dimensions:
58" high, 50” wide, 3" deep



"Fission" -- sold

Materials:
Indian khadi paper strips, colored with fluid acrylic, adhered to birch panel, embellished with metal leaf

Dimensions:
48" high, 48” wide, 3" deep

Rare Collection of Woven Sculptures and Baskets Donated to Museum of Arts and Design

New York, NY (February 2, 2010) -- Traditional and Avant-Garde Baskets from Around the World: Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection.

A rare, internationally acclaimed collection of contemporary baskets including functional vessels as well as expressive works that challenge traditional definitions of basketry, has been promised to the Museum of Arts and Design by Sara and David Lieberman. With their passion for collecting contemporary craft and their exceptional openness to new forms and ideas, the Liebermans have assembled one of the best compilations of contemporary baskets in the country. Their collection will be presented for the first time in New York in the exhibition Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, from March 16, 2010 and through September 12, 2010 at the Museum of Arts and Design.

“We are thrilled and grateful to be receiving this major gift from Sara and David Lieberman. Their collection is exceptional in its distinction and quality,” states Holly Hotchner the Museum’s Nanette L. Laitman Director. “The Lieberman collection offers an expansive overview of the current level of innovation and experimentation in the field. This material gets right to the heart of the intersection between craft, art, and design.”

MAD Museum
2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY 10019

click image to enlarge



"Cocoon" -- promised to the MADMuseum by the Lieberman Collection

Materials:
Encaustic on handmade kozo paper, sewn with natural white horse hair

Dimensions:
vessel is 8” in diameter, the horse hair "poof" extends to 13"
13" high

My own TV reality show!!

Hardly.

BUT!!

TV Land’s “High School Reunion”, returns this fall for its all-new 2009 season, featuring Las Vegas’ Chaparral High School class of ‘89.

The cast has begun filming at “an estate on the breathtaking island of Kaua’i”.

Present in this estate’s main house, where much of the action takes place, are a number of KG works – the entry gate, an atrium-filling digital painting in the grand entry, and textile designs and collagraph prints throughout the house’s living and sleeping areas.

Please visit the fabulous film site, Kaua'i Nani. Here, enjoy some of the artwork which may offer vague glimpses in the background shots of the upcoming drama. Click on any photo to enlarge.



Gateway to the estate, featuring a carved pattern of creeping fig, ficus pimula.

© 2003 Katherine Glover




Digital painting of the island of Maui, triptych measures 84" x 44", giclée print on canvas. © 2003 Katherine Glover



The Bird of Paradise Room in the Main House. Textiles and prints

© 2003 Katherine Glover



The Blue Room in the Orchid House. Textiles © 2003 Katherine Glover