KATHERINE ACE
"The intersection of contraries fascinates me: ecstasy and agony; humor and tragedy; natural and
constructed realities; experience and news. I am captivated by complex issues that we all face,
and yet experience personally, intimately. I am interested in the role of dark feelings, thoughts
and states of mind in the process of transformation, l am drawn to fire beneath reserve."
"Although stylistically I incorporate representation, paradoxically, I approach the canvas
abstractly and employ gesture founded in Abstract Expressionism. I throw paint at the canvas and
sculpt the surface using painting knives, nails, pins, bottle brushes, gold leaf plastic, anything
that is lying around. Into the surface I incorporate paper collage, feathers, beans, tacks, sticks,
glass and more."
"My subject matter includes the figure (invented, remembered and/or quoted) as well
as still life of paper, textiles, flora and fauna, food, weapons and toys. I work whatever my mood,
and each piece combines the intentional with the accidental, the textured layers forming what becomes
the body and flesh of the painting."
Katherine Ace has an ongoing fascination with both figurative and still life painting. Her work posits,
plays with and subverts realism, is deeply involved in contraries and opposites, and has a feminist
orientation. She finds inspiration in art from ancient times to the present.
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