HART, KATHRYN

Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist whose artmaking is underpinned in Humanism and Feminism. My works exalt the tenacity of the human spirit and take an unflinching view of the viscera experienced which makes life possible. I explore hope, life, death and renewal.

Combining gesture and meticulous labor, I make works bigger than their physicality using shadow, reflection, light, dimension, line and space. My art strives towards truth, not prettiness. I honor the process of life and all its emotional turmoil; deep feelings of grief, loss and pain are expressions of love and death is evidence of living. My pieces reflect the privilege, responsibility and disquiet of bearing witness.

I aim to reveal the underbelly, not veil it, as a way of discovering the lasting core which shines beyond the white noise of society, family and personal experience.

My works pulse and breathe with energy and embrace the tension between renewal and entropy, growth and decay, life and death

Biography
Kathryn Hart is an interdisciplinary artist whose works are underpinned in Humanism and Feminism. She makes works bigger than their physicality using shadow, reflection, light, dimension, gesture, line and space. Her pieces interact with their environments. She exhibits worldwide, primarily in New York City, Europe, and Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Palazzo Mora for the European Cultural Centre, an event of the 58th Venice Biennale; Sala d’Exposicions Coll Alas, Cultura de Gandia (Spain); School of Visual Arts (NYC); Kotlownia Galeria, Politechnika Krakowska (Krakow); Howland Cultural Center (NY); Galerie SD Szucha 8 (Warsaw); Andre Zarre Gallery, (NYC); and ArtHaus (Denver). Curated group exhibitions include the Ateneo de Madrid Cultural Inst., Chelsea Art Museum (NYC), Oceanside Museum of Art (CA), So. Nevada Museum of Fine Arts (Las Vegas), Myslenice Cultural Center, (Poland), and Cultural Center Antigua Hospital St. Marc (Gandia, Spain). Her work has been recognized by curators such as Christiane Paul, The Whitney Museum; Anna Katz, Asst. Curator, MOCA, LA; Harriet Taub, Exec. Dir. of Materials for the Arts, NYC; Chelsea Guerdat, former Dir. Bass Museum of Art; Robert Pincus, contributor to ArtNews and Art In America, and the former LA Times art critic; and William Pohida, art critic.

Hart’s artwork is in the public collections of the Truro Center for the Arts at Castlehill (MA), Palazzo Michiel Hotel Collection of Locanda ai Santi Apostoli, Venice, IT; Myslenice Cultural Center, sponsored by the Ministries of Art and Culture of France and Poland; So. Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, Las Vegas; the Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY; and Galeria 33, Ostrow, Poland. Her work is archived in the National Museum of Women in the Arts with the National Association of Women Artists. She has received sponsorships from the European Cultural Center (2019), Ajuntament de Gandia, European Cultural Academy, Council of Europe (2016), the Ministries of Art and Culture of France and Poland (2015, 2014), and the US Embassies (2015). Select awards include the United Nations Harmonyfor Peace Award (2010); Best of Show, Colorado History Museum (2010), and Best of Mixed Media, Artslant (’14-18)

She has been the subject of articles by Mary Rozzi, founder and creative director, The September Issues Magazine; Ed McCormack, Editor-in-Chief, Gallery&Studio; Byron Coleman, NY Times former art critic; Maurice Taplinger, NYC art critic; and Genie Davis, co-founder Diversions LA. Hart was featured on public TV in Denver Creates, S1 E2.

Kathryn Hart holds a B.A., Boston U.; an MBA, U. of Texas at Arlington; and has extended studies in art from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, the European Cultural Academy (Venice), and the City of London Polytechnic.

Hart lives and works in Colorado. Her studio, adjacent to Pike National Forest, is a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller at the experimental art college, Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1948.

Hart has been a member of artnauts since 2020.
Website: http://www.kathryndhart.com/