Kate Carr Resume
Artist Statement
My assignment
as artist is to pay attention. I am committed to looking,
noticing, and acknowledging spaces, materials, and occurrences
in the everyday world. This kind of noticing informs my
creative process and also requires moments of being present,
however brief. Finding a fleeting experience of presentness in
a material, in a process, in a place, is what motivates me to
make art. Being present allows me to find beauty resting in
the ordinary. I am repeatedly drawn to materials and
activities that are in themselves quite plain. In their
unadorned familiarity I see possibilities for transformation.
My goal is to take these quotidian experiences and find ways
to distill them into aesthetic moments. In this process, I
hope to create work that has a quiet presence of its own that
requires our attention.
My current
materials are cloth and wood. I associate these utilitarian
materials with line. I emphasize this by cutting them into
strips and exposing only their edges. These edges of cloth and
wood are stacked or coiled into repeated multiples of
themselves: creating densely textured, multi-layered fields
that hum with line. Stacking and layering have long been tools
of my visual vocabulary. They are straightforward
construction methods – that when pushed to their limits – can
create surprisingly complex results. This kind of repetitive,
accumulative working process becomes quite soothing and
expansive. The many components and details of the work become
second to the gestalt experience of the work as a whole. It is
in this place that I feel present and connected, with my
materials and process in unison.
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