NYAB Event - Kathleen King "Life After Life"

Kathleen King "Life After Life"

Viridian Artists, Inc.

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Textures and surfaces of objects found in nature have always held a fascination for the artist. Both working directly and referentially with actual plant detritus, King inserts digital processes into her artistic method before applying more classical media to her finished work. Ms. King comments: “I consider 2D and 3D scanning and printing to be midway processes that enable me to visualize what form the final work may take before I complete it with more hands on traditional drawing and painting.”

"Deciduous Dragon's Offering"

Botanical detritus, which have had a past life as plants, dry and age, to become insignificant leavings. These humble fragments are treated as “relics” by the artist and constructed into “Divas” and “Dragons." In turn, these 3D assemblages serve as the benevolent or sinister iconic subjects giving the dead botanical cast offs a new “life” in the improvised visual narratives that emerge in the finished works of art.

Kathleen King lives and works in Chicago and exhibits her work there as well as in New York, Seoul and Tokyo. Her work is included in many collections, nationally and internationally. For the past six summers, Ms. King had been invited as a visiting adjunct professor to teach watercolor and drawing courses in the International Summer Campus Programs at Korea University. Kathleen King is also on the board of the Skopelos Art Foundation, in Skopelos, Greece where in addition to serving on the board, she has taught and held workshops in artistic practice.