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

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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

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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. 

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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:

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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, 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.

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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/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

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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