Global InformationKathleen Kucka information
Kathleen Kucka | |
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| Born | East Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Hunter College Cooper Union |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Website | Kathleen Kucka |
Kathleen Kucka is an American visual artist whose practice includes abstract paintings, works on paper and prints.[1][2][3] She is known for work that combines a conceptual approach with unique, sometimes unpredictable processes of mark-making such as the burning of canvas, pouring paint, and sewing.[4][5] Critics note her work for its highly associative, open-ended quality, which evokes modernist formalism and natural phenomena from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic.[6][7][8] Critic Stephanie Buhmann wrote that Kucka's work is inspired by nature and contemporary abstraction with attention to geometry, and leaves viewers "wondering if we are witnessing a scene documented through a microscope or captured from an aerial view ... we find ourselves reminded of the interrelations between all things, be they of a natural or man-made origin."[9]
Kucka has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Columbia Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art and the Drawing Center, among other venues.[10] Her work belongs to permanent art collections including those of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Borusan Contemporary (Turkey), and Weatherspoon Art Museum.[11][12][13] She is based in New York City and Falls Village, Connecticut.[3][14]
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- ^ Johnson, Ken. "Kathleen Kucka," The New York Times, March 26, 1999. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ a b Kiener, Robert. "Controlled Burn: Artist Kathleen Kucka," New England Home Magazine, Spring 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Stevenson, Jonathan. "Painting's undying versatility," Two Coats of Paint, September 30, 2021. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Genocchio, Benjamin. "Looking Into the World of Genomes and Seeing an Unreliable Future," The New York Times, March 2, 2008. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Korotkin, Joyce. "Kathleen Kucka," New York Art World, April 2001.
- ^ Knight, Christopher. "Surface and Color in Abstract Group Show," Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2002. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Simmons, Todd. "Clarity Amidst Liberated Perspectives," Gay City News, September 28, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Buhmann, Stephanie. "Kathleen Kucka's Ultrastructures," Kathleen Kucka: Ultrastructures, New York: Brenda Taylor Gallery, 2011.
- ^ Watson, Neil. "Close Cover Before Striking," in Burn: Artists Play with Fire by Neil Watson, West Palm Beach, FL: Norton Museum of Art, 2001. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Birmingham Museum of Art. Untitled, Kathleen E. Kucka, Collection. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Borusan Contemporary. Kathleen Kucka, Radiating Bands of Color, Artists. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Weatherspoon Art Museum. Kathleen Kucka, Artist. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Lang, Joel. "Kathleen Kucka harnesses the flame of an electric charcoal lighter to play with light and shadows,” Connecticut Post, March 29, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2022.