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Kate BreakeyPenstemon in a Bottle2021
2021
$1,800
£1,354.33
€1,564.28
CA$2,543.87
A$2,760.49
CHF 1,462.81
MX$33,856.02
NOK 18,102.23
SEK 17,105.64
DKK 11,678.15
About the Item
I've been fascinated with botany and have photographed flowers for 40 years now. Flowers were around long before animals – about 140 million years. There are estimated to be 400,000 species of flowering plants on earth. The sole purpose of a flower is reproduction and the color and scent are to attract pollinators.
I think we are all attracted to flowers – in every culture they are symbols - we use them to signify love and fertility at weddings and bring them to funerals, to represent grief and loss. Looking up each and every flower’s symbolism, they are like a whole other secret language of metaphor and meaning. They’ve been the subject of art since the beginning, we praised them, in songs and poetry, and paintings. But their beauty is brief - they die and decay. I sometimes find them more beautiful when they wither and droop – this transition to death is a whole other kind of beauty.
- Creator:Kate Breakey (1957, Australian)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Framed w/Optium Museum PlexiPrice: $2,250
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- Gallery Location:Sante Fe, NM
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU134210622572
Kate Breakey
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers and animals in a series called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas Press. Her other monographs include Painted Light, University of Texas in 2010, a career retrospective that encompasses a quarter century of prolific image making. Her collection of photograms, entitled 'Las Sombras / The shadows' was published by University of Texas Press in October 2012. This series is a continuation of her lifetime investigation of the natural world which in her own words is ‘brimming with fantastic mysterious beautiful things. Since 1980 her work has appeared in more than 110 one-person exhibitions and in over 60 group exhibitions. A native of South Australia, Kate moved to Austin, Texas in 1988. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Texas in 1991 where she also taught photography in the Department of Art and Art History until 1997. Her collections include the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, The Australian National Gallery, and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, as well as various private collections. She has resided in Tucson, Arizona for 20 years. She regularly teaches workshops nationally and internationally.
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