Catastrophe
30 x 22 Monotype with Chine Colle on Hahnemuhle Paper, 2024
ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings, drawings and prints are centered on landforms, and relational geographies between these forms, including rocks, mountains, and water, how they collide and interact with earth and sky. I am interested in mining the landscape as a source for process-based abstraction, utilizing multiples and repetitious mark-making to manifest physically into patterns, gestures, and shapes. My personal connection to environment often leads me to create forms or spaces that blend the literal monuments of physical nature with dreams, shifts in scale, and psychological reactions. Referencing mountainous and glacial terrain, geological mappings, nature or imaginary realms, these scenes emphasize the elemental in the physical world, spoken through memory and visual space.
BIO
Kathline Carr, writer and visual artist, is the author/artist of Miraculum Monstrum (Red Hen Press 2017), winner of the 2015 Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize (AROHO Foundation). Her visual work, primarily painting and printmaking, is process-driven, inspired by the natural world, and often resembles 2D representations of sculpture, with references to landforms, environment, iterative process and multiples. This work has been supported by grants from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Mass Cultural Council, and Massachusetts-based Assets for Artists. Carr’s writing and art have appeared in Alexandria Quarterly, Entropy, Yew, Calyx, Connecticut Review, Hawaii Review, Earth’s Daughters, SISYPHUSINA ([PANK] Books, 2020, author Shira Dentz) and elsewhere; she has exhibited in New York City, Canada and widely in New England, including Boston, where she is an associate member of Fountain Street Gallery in the SOWA Arts District. Carr received her BFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in Visual Art and Feminist Philosophy from Goddard College, VT and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and a Certificate in Green Printmaking/Intaglio from Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, MA. She is currently the printshop technician and studio instructor at the Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program.
