Items Similar to Experimental Encaustic Newspaper Wall Sculpture 13 by Kate Hunt Abstract Modern
Video Loading
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 10
Kate HuntExperimental Encaustic Newspaper Wall Sculpture 13 by Kate Hunt Abstract Modern2023
2023
About the Item
"Experimental Piece #13" by Kate Hunt, 12" x 12" x 2", made of newspaper, burnt encaustic, and baling twine, with hanging wire included on the back, also signed on the back.
BIOGRAPHY
Kate Hunt was raised in a town of 900 on the plains of Montana. It is "Big Sky" country. The subtle power of the landscape has influenced her work. Hunt’s work is object oriented. Her materials include steel, twine, boat building epoxy, encaustic, and newspaper.
She first started working with newspaper at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her teacher, Joan Livingstone, had her make a "chinese finger trap", the kind found at carnivals that tighten as you try to pull your fingers out. From there she started building large weavings with newspaper. Her teacher, Dale Eldred, pushed her to think of her work as sculpture.
Hunt graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute and Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has been awarded a Montana Arts Council Award, the Gottlieb Grant and Virginia Groot Foundation Grant. She has shown nationally and internationally and her work is in many prominent collections. She recently relocated full time to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I have a personal conversation with the concept, materials and the world around me. It's a back and forth type exchange with me saying over and over, "what if......."
If I was writer I could tell you about these conversations, but I am not, I am a visual artist. I can tell you that Opera and artists such as Chakaia Booker, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mark di Suvero, Dale Eldred, and Ursula von Rydingsvard inspire me.
Once my conversation is done and the piece is in the gallery and front of the audience, it becomes their conversation.
-Kate Hunt
WORK DESCRIPTION
Hunt demonstrates a powerful command and intuitive sense of her materials. Through varnishing, chopping and binding, Hunt recasts this common material into the stuff of sculpture, often to stunning and surprising effect.
-Kate Hackman, The Kansas City Star.
I create sculpture using newspaper as my primary material. They are constructed through processes of stacking, cutting, gluing, wrapping, coating and burning. Ascribing to Levi- Strauss' belief that when an artist knows her materials, new discoveries are possible, I have— through over four decades of experimentation--developed an intimate knowledge and command of the properties and capacities of newspaper that allows for infinite exploration, formal and conceptual. My intent is to create sculpture that feels essential and immediate, with an intense physical presence that can be felt first in the gut. Context is important, and there is meaning to be read into them, but those meanings are not proscribed. I want my sculptures to be complete in themselves. These are meant to be objects that meet you where you are, and address you back.
They are in significant part about the material itself--a physical substance, subject to gravity, vulnerable to burning and erosion, but also remarkably strong and persistent, able to weather the weather. Newspaper is a cheap and easily attainable material, with variable textures and densities, and I can use it to construct work of any scale. It is also a loaded one: a vehicle for communication and carrier of information, as relevant as the news of the day and then meant to be discarded. It fulfills this function at significant cost, consuming valuable resources then filling recycling bins and landfills where it can take many years to decompose, if at all.
I use other materials—bailing twine, steel, encaustic, gold leaf, inner-tubes—for formal, structural, and associative purposes. They bind, support, coat, allowing me to create both wall mounted and free-standing pieces including work that can live outdoors. They also bring texture and color—the exquisite golden-brown twist of sisal, the smooth, lush black of rubber, the delicacy and radiance of gilding, the crusty white of wax. There is a rightness I am seeking; I know I have gotten there when I've made something that feels like it might always have existed.
- Creator:Kate Hunt (American)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Whitefish, MT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2419213926522
About the Seller
No Reviews Yet
Vetted Seller
These experienced sellers undergo a comprehensive evaluation by our team of in-house experts.
Established in 2017
1stDibs seller since 2023
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Whitefish, MT
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 14 days of delivery.
More From This SellerView All
- Experimental Encaustic Newspaper Wall Sculpture 12 by Kate Hunt AbstractBy Kate HuntLocated in Whitefish, MT"Experimental Piece #12" by Kate Hunt, 12" x 11" x 2", made of newspaper, burnt encaustic, and baling twine, with hanging wire included on the back, also sig...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsPaper, Mixed Media, Wax, Newsprint
- Tributaries Abstract River Oil Cold Wax Original Bonnie Zahn Griffith PaintingLocated in Whitefish, MT"Tributaries" by Bonnie Zahn Griffith, Oil and Cold Wax Medium on Wood Panel, 18" x 18" unframed, 20" x 20" framed in a modern black frame with hanging wire included. Known for her p...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
MaterialsGold Leaf
- Sunset Crane Shield Original Kevin Red Star Crow Indian Native American PaintingBy Kevin Red StarLocated in Whitefish, MT"Sunset Crane Shield" by Kevin Red Star, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, 36" x 36" unframed, 38" x 38" framed in a thin modern floater with hanging wire included. Signed upper right and handwritten caption on the back. Kevin Red Star’s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
- Many Horse Shield Original Kevin Red Star Acrylic Crow Native American WesternBy Kevin Red StarLocated in Whitefish, MT"Many Horse Shield" by Kevin Red Star. Original Acrylic painting on Canvas, 48" x 30", 51" x 33" (framed). Crows were known for their exceptionally well-trained horses; each having specific skills i.e. hunting, warring, parade, and working with women and children, or moving camp. Kevin Red Star’s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow (Apsaalooka) culture through the eyes of a thoroughly contemporary consciousness. In the world of museums and private collections, he is equally respected for the content of his unique imagery, for his artistic productivity, and for the enduring value of his work. Kevin Red Star grew up on the Crow reservation in southern Montana, a member of a highly creative family. He was known as the go-to artist for all school projects. He was chosen to be in the first group of students at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the late sixties, when the founders personally visited Native villages and reservations nationwide and recruited the most talented youngsters from each. The school provided a learning environment of tribal tradition, world art history, and current trends. Open studios, well stocked with supplies, encouraged individual experimentation and collaboration. Students mined their ancient customs for content, and then created exciting new forms to provide current relevance. Red Star and some of his friends in their graduating class continued their studies at the San Francisco Art Institute before embarking on their careers. They attracted immediate notice in New York and Paris, as well as established art centers throughout the United States. And they went on to change the face of modern Indian art...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
MaterialsMixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic
- Shows Little on Parade Horse on the Red Road Kevin Red Star Original AcrylicBy Kevin Red StarLocated in Whitefish, MT"Shows Little on Parade Horse on the Red Road" by Kevin Red Star. He is a Crow Elder that teaches the young ones to parade. Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 60" x 48", 63" x 51" (framed). Kevin Red Star’s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
MaterialsMixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic
- Fights Well Known Crow Indian Man Kevin Red Star Original Native American ArtBy Kevin Red StarLocated in Whitefish, MT"Fights Well Known" by Kevin Red Star, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, 40" x 30" unframed, 42" x 32" framed in a modern thin floater. This is a Crow Indian Man with a Blackbird Medicine Shield. Not signed, but Kevin did handwrite the title and caption on the back. Kevin Red Star’s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
You May Also Like
- "The World in a Grain of Sand" Abstract Paper Wall Sculpture, Mixed MediaBy Joan GiordanoLocated in New York, NY"The World in a Grain of Sand" by Joan Giordano Mixed media, international archival newspapers, encaustic on canvas Museum shown and collected artist Joan Giordano is known for her ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsPaper, Mixed Media, Magazine Paper, Canvas, Newsprint, Encaustic
- "Between the Lines" Abstract, Paper Wall Relief Sculpture, Mixed Media CollageBy Joan GiordanoLocated in New York, NY"Between the Lines" by Joan Giordano Mixed media, archival newspaper, encaustic on canvas Museum shown and collected artist Joan Giordano is known for her unique hand made paper scu...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsCanvas, Mixed Media, Paper, Encaustic, Magazine Paper, Newsprint
- "The Year in Pictures" Abstract Paper Wall Relief Sculpture, Mixed Media CollageBy Joan GiordanoLocated in New York, NY"The Year in Pictures" by Joan Giordano Mixed media, international archival newspapers, encaustic on wood panel Museum shown and collected artist Joan Giordano is known for her uniq...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsWood Panel, Paper, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Magazine Paper, Newsprint
- "Free Press" Mixed media & paper, wall relief sculptureBy Joan GiordanoLocated in New York, NY"Free Press" by Joan Giordano Mixed media, archival newspaper, encaustic on canvas Museum shown and collected artist Joan Giordano is known for her unique hand made paper and wall relief sculpture...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsCanvas, Encaustic, Newsprint, Mixed Media
- Cone Drawing with SculptureLocated in Missouri, MOCone Drawing with Sculpture By Jane Sauer (b. 1937- ) Cone Drawing Unframed: 30" x 31.5" Cone Drawing Framed: 37" x 29" Cone Sculpture: 27" x 4" Born i...Category
20th Century Modern Mixed Media
MaterialsLinen, Paper, Mixed Media, Wax
- Italian Modernist Abstract Sculpture Painting Shaped Canvas Brutalist CollageBy Max MarraLocated in Surfside, FLSigned, dated, and titled "MAX MARRA XXX 2002 verso. Mixed media sculpture painting including acrylic, ink, cord, and wax on shaped canvas, 20 3/4 x 24 in., unframed. Ho viaggiato ...Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCord, Ink, Mixed Media, Wax, Acrylic
