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KATHRYN A. GLOWEN
Artist Kathryn Glowen currently works at her farm and studio in Arlington, Washington. She
studied fine art and graphic design at Washington State University and the University of
Tulsa. Her work brings together the discipline of design with the personal vision of an
artist in a variety of media including collage, assemblage, painting and installation
sculpture.
Kathryn's well-known assemblage sculptures, wall reliefs and wearable objects often
combine paper ephemera such as photos, postcards, printed materials, etc. with intriguing
found objects and precisely painted forms. Together, these elements comprise a visual
journey of memory, place and time. Her work is in numerous public and private collections
in the Northwest and Midwest.
contact Alison@SedersGallery.com
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Lunar
This body of work which includes the Dwarf
assemblages, refers to the celestial sphere. It is a place where we have
projected ourselves in myth, spirit and legend (for example, the
constellations), and a sphere that influences our daily rhythms and moods.
The moon and the night sky continue to cast their quiet mystery upon us. My
interpretation of Lunar is more lyrical than literal. I am perhaps as
influenced by Selene, the ancient Greek goddess of the moon, as much as I am
influenced by astronomy and natural science.
Kathryn Glowen, 2006 - 2007 |
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About a Snowman
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This work is a continuation of my use of dictionary fragments
and images to represent ideas as well as shapes.
As a child I was given a dictionary to occupy my time when I went
with my parents to house parties—I’m not sure if I looked at them
right-side up but ever since, I have loved dictionaries. And now my
husband Ron collects them.
“Conversations with a Snowman” began with thoughts and memories of
my younger sister Chris who has moved to Hawaii. My father, a Boeing
engineer but an inept builder, made a sled for us. One winter day, I
was pulling her around the yard as the sled runners clogged up with
snow and my two-year old sister sat there cold and screaming in her
pink snowsuit. Mother said, “Make her a snowman,” and then come
inside. So there I am, eight years old, working as fast as possible
to finish the snowman and get her back into the warm house. It may
well be the first work of sculpture that I ever made.
A snowman is a benign character, and product of the natural world
and childlike imagination. I think of them today as an endangered
species, a bellwether of climatic change and global warming. A
snowman is also an alter ego, a temporary sculpture subject to the
whim of both cold and warm.
As I was making these works, my husband discovered a passage in
Giorgio Vasari’s “Lives of the Artists” (1573) about the young
Michelangelo at the court of Lorenzo de Medici. One day, the artist
was asked to create a snow sculpture for Lorenzo’s son Piero. There
was no mention of a sled involved.
Kathryn Glowen
August 2006
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