KATHLEEN VANCE
WORKS
ARTIST STATEMENT
Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist that creates projects that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under appreciated. In my work I distinguish forms that are indicative of growth and explore the variance between experiences of an authentic natural encounter vs. an inauthentic encounter. I look for the ways in which nature can be brought back into the course of one’s daily life. I am intrigued by areas where manicured nature is being reclaimed by the wild. With my installations I engage viewers with the experience of a space being overtaken by natural elements. I bring discarded particles from forestry floor together to be revivified in my constructions.
BIOGRAPHY
Education
2006 - MFA from Hunter College
1999 - BFA from Pratt Institute
Exhibitions
2019 - “Nature in Art: Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow: MOCAK, Kraków, Poland
2019 - “Anthropene Island”, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, New York , NY
2019 - Site Specific Installation: “Fauna of Mirrors” curated by Etty Yaniv, Long Island University Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2019 - “Baggage Claims” Weisman Art Museum Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
2018 - Site Specific Installation: “Natural Wonders” Brandywine River Museum, curated by Suzanne Ramljak, Chadds Ford, PA
2018 - “Baggage Claims” Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Greencastle, IN
2018 - “Among Friends” 55 Washington, DUMBO, Brooklyn
2018 - “A Journey in Place” curated by Katherine Murdock, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2018 - Baggage Claims” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Spring Garden and Tate Streets, Greensboro, NC
2018 - “Strasburg Biennal: The River Between Us” Shenandoah Museum of Contemporary Art: SHEN MoCA, Strasburg, VA
2018 - “underSTOOD” curated by Priscilla Fusco and Ben Peterson ROCKELMANN & PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
2017 - Solo Presentation: “VOLTA New York” presented by Rockelmann &, Pier 90, New York, NY
2017 - “Baggage Claims” Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando FL
2017 - Expo Chicago presented by Rockelmann &, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL.
2017 - “The Innocence of Trees” The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2017 - “River Woman” Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 - “The Expanding Matrix” Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY
2016 - “Lands of Enchantment” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
2016 - “Bringing Brooklyn to Norfolk” Gallery 21, Norfolk, VA
2016 - “Mini Matisse” Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2016 - “Making History Bushwick” David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2015 - Flirting with Disaster, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
2015 - Paperazzi IV, Janet Kurnatowski galley, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - Reconnecting with Nature, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2014 - My Sister’s Doll, Artists Respond to a Christmas Saga” Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - Art for Trees, The High Line, New York, NY
2014 - Art for Trees, Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY
2014 - Another Green World, NYU Gallatin Gallery, New York, NY
2014 - Summer Love, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2014 - Whitney Houston Biennial, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - Paperazzi III, Janet Kurnatowski galley, Brooklyn, NY
2013 - Abandon Isolation, ROCKELMANN &, Berlin, Germany
2013 - Infinite Gardens, Delicious Spectacle, Washington DC
2013 - Tracing Landscapes, Nuartlink, Westport, CT
2013 - Traveling Landscapes, Rahway Arts Center, Rahway, NJ
2013 - Sublime Landscape, Collective Craft, Fireman’s Memorial Garden, New York, NY
2013 - Group Therapy: Aesthetics and Politics, NY
2013 - Flow Follow Flow, Rupert Ravens Nexxt. Paterson, NJ
2013 - Looking Back, Art 101, NY
2013 - Paperazzi 2, Janet Kurnatowski galley, Brooklyn, NY
2012 - From the Woods, solo exhibition, Open Source Gallery, NY
2012 - Introduction, ROCKELMANN &, Berlin, Germany
2011 - Outgrowth of Nature, solo exhibition, Art 101, NY
2011 - Creating Realities, galerie OPEN, Berlin, Germany
2011 - Art From Berlin, art Karlsruhe, Rheinstetten, Germany
2011 - Associated, Open Source Gallery, NY
2011 - Fuseworks Goes to College, Central Connecticut State University, new Britain, CT
2010 - Out of the Woods, solo exhibition, galerie OPEN, Berlin, Germany
2010 - Good Natured, RSProjects, Berlin, Germany
2010 - What Art Can Do, Art 101, NY
2010 - Landmarks West Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2009 - Traveling Landscapes, solo exhibition galerie, OPEN, Berlin, Germany
2009 - Urban Nature, East West Project, Berlin, Germany
2009 - Paper in the Wind, Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, NY
2009 - Unnatural Acts and Other Illicit Thoughts About Nature, Broadway gallery, NY
2008 - Panorama Project 3, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NY
2008 - Forming Lines: Translations Between Drawing and Sculpture”, Like the Spice Gallery, NY
2008 - In-Site, Governor’s Island, NY (Public Sculpture Installation)
2008 - Trellis, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2008 - Revivified, Headbones gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2008 - Paper in the Wind, Article Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2007 - The Worst Is / Not to Die in Summer, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
2007 - En Plein Air- Reloaded, Black and White gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 - Broadthinking, Silent Space Gallery, Kingston, NY
2007 - Highly Recommended, Headbones gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2007 - Drawn and Quartered, Like the Spice gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 - Matter of Time, Betty Cuningham gallery, New York, NY
2006 - Archival to Contemporary-Six Decades of the Sculptors Guild, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY (Public Sculpture Installation)
2006 - Little Women, Dam, Stuhltrager gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 - Newark Between Us, The National Newark Building, Newark, NJ
2005 - Facing Newark, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
2005 - Unfamiliar Destinations, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2004 - Element, Front Room gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2004 - Singular Obsessions, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Grants and Honors
- Selected Artist for TD Forests, New York Restoration Project: “Art for Trees”
- Board Member ARTfront, Inc.
- Member of tART Collective
- Member of the Sculptors Guild
- Visiting artist in Berlin, in connection with the Grunewald Parks Department and galerie OPEN
- RSProject’s Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany
- Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Emerge 7’ awardee
- Haskel Travel grant recipient
- Brooklyn Art Council grant recipient
- Puffin Foundation grant recipient