Singing My Song
Kathleen Florance
Between #15, relief ink on gessoed gatorboard, 96” x 96”
February 2 - March 25, 2023
About the Show
Singing My Song draws from four different series of Kathleen Florance’s work: Between, Gossamer Threads, Homage, and My Little Etudes. The work ranges from large scale paintings and drawings inspiring wonder to smaller, intimate works with an unmistakable lyrical quality. The resulting combination is a triumphant demonstration of an artist at the height of her creative powers, and the exhibition sings with beauty and grace.
“Between chance and fate speaks the human tongue…” – Thorkild Hansen. As a starting point for her Between series, Florance reads these words as “inspiring this exploration of the interplay in our lives of random chance and uncontrollable fate. In the space between the two, we have the opportunity to act – and therein lies our hope.” Work in this series “begins as a random mark slowly emerges through a process of gradual awakening to and recognition of the bigger picture, a process that echoes the original dialectic of chance and fate that sparked this series.”
Whereas the Between series explores competing forces, the Gossamer Threads series examines connections. The pieces begin with the idea of webs and spaces and evolve over time as elements are introduced to pull the spaces into a cohesive whole.
The Homage series uses the most fundamental, elemental process of art – drawing – to offer a glimpse into a more literal living world. These drawings “offer a window into a remarkable journey of understanding how each life contributed to the world we are privileged to share and how important recognition of their value is.”
Finally, My Little Etudes are smaller scale pieces inspired by musical etudes, which are used to enhance specific skills. Working at this more intimate scale, Florance “sharpens color and design concepts” and “openly embraces where the work itself leads” her.
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