Kathleen Hope

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Kathleen Hope MODULAR 78 cement, pigment, plaster 8.00 X 8.00 in $250.00

Kathleen Hope MODULAR 6 cement, pigment, plaster 8.00 X 8.00 in $250.00

Kathleen Hope MODULAR 35 cement, pigment, plaster 8.00 X 8.00 in $250.00

Kathleen Hope MODULAR 54 cement, pigment, plaster 8.00 X 8.00 in $250.00

I grapple with the unpredictable world, and make sense out of chaos. I start with a loose idea and let the materials guide the work, using diverse media and unconventional materials ...

Newspaper, tarpaulin, cloth, and plastic are layered to create an intriguing relief which has been sparingly coated with white emulsion, creating a rustic abstract piece full of subtle colour and depth. The artwork has been signed in Cyrillic...

Artist Comments
I have used grade one Braille as a form for recognizing what is unknowable and unseeable, until we feel it. As a way of connecting sight with feeling, intertwining the two. This piece is meant to be touched, explored, felt. Made in honor of Gerda Klein, after reading her autobiography of her experiences as a Holocaust survivor. In Braille it reads and then there was one, from whom came many. Found, reclaimed and resurrected- an abstract wood relief ;painting; in an assortment of soft and hard woods puzzled together within a salvaged antique window...

The painting captures a surreal wilderness, where a forest of trees emerges from a tapestry of mixed media. Twisted trunks sculpted from plaster rise organically, intertwined with vi...