B. Lynbrook, NY, U.S.A.
www.kate-gordon.com
kathryncgordon@gmail.com
@kategordon_studio
www.kate-gordon.com
kathryncgordon@gmail.com
@kategordon_studio
Bio
Kate Gordon currently holds the position of Assistant Professor Figure Drawing & Foundations at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She earned an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute. Gordon has shown her paintings, collages and video works nationally; exhibitions include a solo show at the Hilliard Art Museum, curation into the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s Art on Paper exhibition, an invitation to create a public video installation at Block 2—a visual platform for new media artists in Raleigh, NC, and a solo exhibition at The Carrack, an artist run project space, in Durham, NC. Most recent exhibitions include curation into the Ogden Museum’s Louisiana Contemporary and Le Mieux Galleries exhibition And Now For Something New located in New Orleans, LA.
Artist Statement
I consider myself a visual storyteller steeped in the language of painting. However, my stories are neither rational nor linear, their beginnings are unpacked from dreams; giving me a glimmer of the creature that culture has created. Inventing imagery without an observable source involves countless iterations, each one compressing the one before it. For this reason, collage is the most agile tool at my disposal. Carving up watercolor drawings for the sole purpose of stitching the everyday and the absurd together. This duplication, fragmentation and instability directly relate to the precarious political and social environment society inhabits today; forced to navigate the world through a lens mediated by technology and overwhelmed with a surplus of information with little hierarchical structure.
My curiosity is peaked when considering impossible dream spaces and simultaneous conflicting worlds. For this reason, my studio practice has been pushed into unknown territory where the picture plane is at moments an installation diorama inlaid with video and burgeoning on becoming a pop-up book. The construction of a visual world that can toggle between two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and can incorporate kinetic aspects is something that continually challenges both my imagination and my studio practice. I am inspired by contemporary painting that is playful in its use of media and comically dark in its treatment of imagery.
My most recent body of work is investigating the following....
CONTRACTION
Contraction, as a force and in the context of childbirth, shortens and tightens, creating immense pressure and a form of unavoidable chaos, which allows for both an ending and a beginning within the cycle of life. This body of work will examine the concept of contraction as it relates to the changes happening in the environment through climate change and how this is reflected through the nature and progression of pregnancy.
My curiosity is peaked when considering impossible dream spaces and simultaneous conflicting worlds. For this reason, my studio practice has been pushed into unknown territory where the picture plane is at moments an installation diorama inlaid with video and burgeoning on becoming a pop-up book. The construction of a visual world that can toggle between two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and can incorporate kinetic aspects is something that continually challenges both my imagination and my studio practice. I am inspired by contemporary painting that is playful in its use of media and comically dark in its treatment of imagery.
My most recent body of work is investigating the following....
CONTRACTION
Contraction, as a force and in the context of childbirth, shortens and tightens, creating immense pressure and a form of unavoidable chaos, which allows for both an ending and a beginning within the cycle of life. This body of work will examine the concept of contraction as it relates to the changes happening in the environment through climate change and how this is reflected through the nature and progression of pregnancy.
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KATE GORDON
EDUCATION
2017 MFA, Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Greensboro, NC
2011 BFA, Painting, Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY
2009 Semester Abroad, Pratt Institute. Venice, Italy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019- present Assistant Professor Figure Drawing and Foundations, Department of Visual Arts, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 2018-2019 Sabbatical Coverage Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Greensboro, NC
2017- present Visiting Lecturer, PreCollege Program, Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY
2015-2017 Instructor, Department of Visual Arts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Greensboro, NC
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2012-2015 Assistant Director of Admissions, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. Old Lyme, CT
2011-2012 Gilding Apprentice, Lowy Frame and Restoration Company. New York, NY
2008-2010 Conservation Intern, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES, LECTURES
2021 Mineral House Virtual Residency
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Surviving Art School, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Winthrop University. Rock Hill, SC
2019 Gallery Talk, Hilliard Art Museum. Lafayette, LA
2019 Art on Paper Gallery Talk, Weatherspoon Art Museum. Greensboro, NC
GRANTS
2020 Friends of the Humanities
2019 Elemore Morgan, Jr. Visual Arts Endowment Fund
2019 Friends of the Humanities 2017 UNCG Research Travel Grant
2019 UNCG Summer Research Fellowship 2015 Holderness Fellowship
AWARDS
2021 Research Rising Star Award, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2015-2017 Graduate Assistantship Scholarship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Greensboro, NC
2011 Full Circle Award, Summa Cum Laude, Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY
2007-2011 Presidential Merit Scholarship, Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Juried Small Works Exhibition, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT (curated by Melanie Carr)
2023 Cheeseburger Apocalypse, Dean’s Gallery Fletcher Hall, ULL, Lafayette, LA
2023 14th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville, NC (curated by Charles Ritchie)
2022 Watershed Weaver, Dry Ice Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2022 Artist Respond: Post Roe Louisiana, Carroll Gallery Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2022 La Louisianne, Imperial Calcasiue Museum, Lake Charles, LA
2022 Is This Too Much?, Le Mieux Galleries, New Orleans, LA (curated by Christy Wood)
2021 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA (curated by Hallie Ringle)
2021 And Now for Something New, Le Mieux Galleries, New Orleans, LA (curated by Lee Deigaard and John Barnes Jr.)
2021 Solo Exhibition, Mind the Gap, EBRPL River Center, Baton Rouge, LA
2021 Slammed, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA (curated by Jaik Faulk and Ben Hickey)
2020 Seasonal Repression, Field Projects, New York, NY (curated by Jacob Rhodes)
2020 Solo Exhibition, Alligator Naps, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA (curated by Ben Hickey)
2019 Introductions, Fletcher Hall Gallery, Lafayette, LA
2019 Into the Condensed and Not Yet Known, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA (curated by Chris Bennett)
2019 Solo Exhibition, Juggling Chainsaws, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2019 Inside Out, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT (curated by Karl Goulet)
2019 Art on Paper 2019 (National Call), Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (curated by Elaine Gustafson)
2019 Solo Exhibition, Impossible Spaces, Public Video Art Installation, Raleigh, NC (curated by Stacy Bloom-Rexrode)
2018 Solo Exhibition, Evedrops, 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY Winter Salon, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Solo Exhibition, Get Out Where, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC
2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2016 Not at the Beach, Sharp Studio, Brooklyn, NY Messenger Project, Salt Gallery, Greensboro, NC
2015 Shifting States, The Kitchen Gallery, New London, CT
2014 Oh, The Places You Will Go, Bern Seiderman Gallery, Lynbrook, NY
2014The Garden, Chauncey Stillman Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
2013 All Paintings Great and Small, Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT 2011 Parlor, Pratt Institute East Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 “Alligator Naps”2021 Annual Report College of the Arts: Pg.16
2021 “Artist Profile: Kate Gordon”Acadiana Profile Magazine, Fall 2021, Pg. 20-21
2021 “Louisiana Contemporary”Ogden Museum Publication, Summer 2021, Pg.17
2021 “Visiting Artist Interview: Kate Gordon”Mineral House (online), Summer 2021
2021 "Alligator Naps", Oxford Journal, June 2021
2021 “Kate Gordon”Country Roads Magazine, May 2021
2020 “Coming Soon”Viewfinder:Hilliard Art Museum, Fall 2020, Pg.4-5
2019 “Meet the New Faces”2019 Annual Report College of the Arts: Pg.3-4