Kathryn Hart

WIDOW  BIRD
Installation
September 2019
Truro Center for the Arts, MA

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WIDOW BIRD, an installation by Kathryn Hart. Truro Center for the Arts.
The compression and expansion of light to the moment of transcendence.
Light, shadow, reflection, glass, monofilament, steel, mirror, fabric and barbed wire

12x10x4 feet with shadows



CARETAKER BED
Permanent outdoor installation
Truro Center for the Arts at Castlehill.  Truro MA


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Kathryn Hart's "Caretaker Bed" is a site-specific, multidisciplinary, outdoor installation created for the meadow at Truro Center for the Arts in Truro, MA.  The reflecting pool, locally found objects, and a single pine tree as a sentinel are in symbiosis with the natural landscape.  "Caretaker Bed," creates a place and atmosphere for reflection and pause.Kathryn Hart's "Caretaker Bed" is a site-specific, multidisciplinary, outdoor installation created for the meadow at Truro Center for the Arts in Truro, MA.  The reflecting pool, locally found objects, and a single pine tree as a sentinel are in symbiosis with the natural landscape.  "Caretaker Bed," creates a place and atmosphere for reflection and pause.  It is reciprocal with its environment and audience in the exchange of light, reflection and oxygen.

The installation employs found objects discovered on the property and dating back about 150 years: A wire fence piece used to protect the apple orchard, the head of a small pitchfork used to feed the sheep, and an old, twisted iron headboard.  The wire fence implies both a place to lie and rest and a sheet under which to crawl. 

20 ft high x 6 ft wide by 12 feet deep
Reflecting Pool: 9 ft x 5 ft x 2 ft deep
September 2019, permanent installation



OZMA
Outdoor installation
Truro Center for the Arts at Castlehill.  Truro MA

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Kathryn Hart's OZMA is a site-specific outdoor installation created for Truro Center for the Arts at Castlehill, Truro, MA.  It both hangs in and is part of the large tree on the hill overlooking the meadow. 

Bones allude to both a presence and an absence of existence. They are simultaneously resilient, frail and vulnerable. They the final remnants when all else is worn away. Exposed to the natural elements for years, they lose their density and become light, airy, often translucent, and with graceful energy of renewal.

Found bones near my Colorado studio, copper wire, steel cable, jute, light, shadow, wind
12 x3.5 x1 feet
September 2019

NEW DAWN, solo exhibition with
Personal Structures-Identities, 58th Venice Biennale
European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora
11 May - 24 November, 2019

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Kathryn Hart's "New Dawn" solo presentation with the European Cultural Centre Personal Structures - Identities event, 58th Venice Biennale. Palazzo Mora, May 9-Nov 24, 2019.

Kathryn Hart presents NEW DAWN, a solo exhibition at Palazzo Mora during the 58th Venice Biennale. At the invitation of the European Cultural Centre and the GAA Foundation, Kathryn Hart (USA) exhibited NEW DAWN as part of PERSONAL STRUCTURES – IDENTITIES, an official event of the 2019 Venice Biennale.

Hart’s, NEW DAWN, a site-specific exhibition of sculpture and photography, reflects on the simultaneous organic processes of regeneration and degradation and questions if there is a point of homeostasis. Each sculpture sways towards either becoming or eroding. Expand or contract, develop, remake or become anew individually or collectively prompted by internal impulse, not external constraint. Sculpture boundaries are like membranes, permeable to light, air, space, energy, emotion, and idea. The wire and fiberglass sculptures concurrently glisten with an embryonic presence and molt their skins. Cast shadows of line and shape creep along curved surfaces. In the abstract photographs, found deer bones reveal transformation after long term exposure to the natural elements. They become translucent to light and full of graceful energy. Symbols of decay alter into pictures of rebirth. Both the sculptures and photography are reflections of the natural cycle and unique moments. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm.

Hart’s installation is in symbiosis with the unique, undulating, organic nature of the space in the third floor of the Palazzo Mora, a noble palazzo dating back to the 16th century. The lines of wires and shadows both enhance and contrast the arcs of the walls and ceilings. Recently restored, the third floor is renewed yet maintains its original character and identity. The artworks and their environment are viewed as a whole.

Curators: Valeria Romagnini, Sara Danielli, Lucia von Pedrana. Palazzo Mora Organizer and Manager: Emma Solett

NEW DAWN, solo exhibition
video slide show
Personal Structures - Identities, European Cultural Centre
58th Venice Biennale
11 May - 24 November 2019

view on vimeo: Kathryn Hart / European Cultural Centre, Personal Structures - Identities / 2019 Venice Biennale / Slideshow 

Video slideshow of Kathryn Hart's "New Dawn" solo presentation with the European Cultural Centre's 'Personal Structures - Identities' event, 58th Venice Biennale. Palazzo Mora, May 9-Nov 24, 2019.
Slideshow includes Reception photos.  Photos courtesy of the artist

DAUNTING TRANSITIONS, Solo Show
'Kotlownia' Politechnika Krakowska, KRAKOW
17 Sept-17 Oct 2018

Kathryn Hart solo exhibition in Krakow, Poland at Kotlownia Galeria, Politechnika Krakowska. In this exhibition, Kathryn Hart explores the burden, responsibility, and fear of choice during a daunting transition. Featured are two installations, sculpture, and ink drawings related to her continued dialogue with evolving feminine identity and the hope for new starts during a period of turmoil, emotional conflict and uncertainty. Her visual language in this show is rooted in line, space and gesture to indicate humanoid or 'entity' energy and pathways. Her work also comments on the myriad of female roles as engineer, builder, janitor, sustainer, caretaker, and explorer.  This exhibition was organized by Dr. Krystyna Malinowska and Basha Maryanska. 



SEARCHING, Solo Show at School of Visual Arts, NYC
ContinuEd Project Space
May 2-30, 2018
video focuses on exhibited photography and ink drawings





Inside the studio with Kathryn Hart.  "DenverCreates," S1, E2, public television broadcast Jan 2017

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Inside the Studio with Kathryn Hart
Schler Productions, November 2016