Kathleen Vance
Travel In Place, new installation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show
625 Madison Avenue, NYC, booth #1014
September 8-12 2022 11AM – 8PM
September 7 11AM – 5PM, Press + Collector Preview, 5PM – 8PM VIP Opening Night
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Radar Curatorial is proud to present Kathleen Vance debut installation Travel In Place at SPRING/BREAK Art Show 10th anniversary exhibition.
Kathleen Vance is an artist whose work simultaneously straddles the past and present. For a fresh take on her established work with conceptual time travel Vance explores a new approach to her art practice in a new installation to debut at SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC.
This multi-media work interprets the traditional pastoral scenes found in Renaissance art. The Renaissance male artist’s gaze saw nature as either revering Mother Nature or to conquer the elements. Sewing up the gender gap established in renaissance art Vance does not place her pastoral scenes as the feminine other but offers an open dialogue, something to respect as place, one to belong to, and to support and appreciate as a cyclical part of life.
Vance expands the established rules of traditional art practices to explore new ideas and communicate through atypical visual and audio elements. Using running water, living plants, soil, hand-sculpted foliage and recycled suitcases the work includes key elements of travel, the packing and the destination. Vance’s work allows the viewer to see all at once, in a non-linear way, both the beginning and end of a voyage. The destination is enveloped in the travel.
Common references guide us through reality and fiction in the artist-built landscapes. Entering and engaging with the installation begins a cyclical trip that feeds into itself in a perfect loop of beginning and ending. Vance starts the engagement by using known references to initiate the transportation, and continues the invitation of displacement through the imagined visit to pastural scenes of bucolic landscapes with babbling brooks and green hillsides. The open cases and luggage with alluring landscapes allude to the possibilities of what is held within the closed cases. How does she end a nonlinear work to help the viewer disengage? Vance’s work helps us feel the stop with an imagined closing the suitcase that we feel this ending.
For the full scope of Vance’s work visit vanceartworks.com @kathleenvanceart