statement
My drawings are a hybrid of various human physiological systems, which I depict through rendering abstract networks of forms, shapes, lines, and marks. Like our internal anatomy, the structures in my works are layered, linear, flowing, clustered, open, dense, intertwined; interpreting gravity, fluids, gases, pressures and tensions. The drawings evolve intuitively as I use a continuous line to build up an image meant to reference both man-made structures and biomorphic configurations. I study medical illustrations and diagrams, industrial factories and building systems (such as heating/cooling systems and plumbing systems), and geological structures as research to develop the abstracted forms in my drawings.
The complex relationship between the manufactured and the natural has become increasing influential in my artwork and research. In 2010, I closely followed the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico through the live video streaming of the oil spill. The physicality, viscosity and displacement of the oil and dispersant in contrast to the salt water were properties I found compelling to depict in recent work as it viscerally expresses the significance of this environmental disaster. The image of the pipeline seeping oil presented the earth as an organism to me, suffering from a faulty and altered system. My interests lie in capturing this shifting of scale from micro to macro and the complex relationship between exterior, man-made structures and interior, subsurface, biomorphic configurations.
bio
born: 1969, Summit, New Jersey
education
Bowling Green State University, MFA, 2000
Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA, 1992
selected awards/honors
Faculty Research Fellowship, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 2013
Travel and Research Grant, Center for the Visual Arts, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 2012
NYFA Mark Program Recipient, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY, 2009
selected publications
Reflections Magazine, Yale University Publication, Spring 2010 issue, artwork featured on cover, 2010
Manifest National Drawing Annual Exhibition in Print, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2005
selected solo or two-person exhibits
Dolce Valvo Art Center at Niagara County Community College: This is the Way, Step Inside, Sanbom, NY, 2012
Lake George Arts Project, Courthouse Gallery: Paintings and Drawing by Kathleen Thum, , Lake George, NY, 2010
School 33: Are You of The Body?, Baltimore, MD, 2010
selected group shows
Abercrombie Gallery at McNeese State University: 26th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles, LA, 2013
Ice Cube Gallery: Icebreaker 4, Denver, CO, 2013
Hyde Art Gallery at Grossmont College: Into Abstraction, El Cajon, CA, 2012
S. Tucker Cooke Gallery at University of North Carolina at Asheville: Drawing Discourse, Ashville, NC, 2012
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