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Kate Breakey Art

Australian, b. 1957
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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Artist: Kate Breakey
Five Figs
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Archival Pigment Print on Glass Plate Backed with 24kt Gold Leaf, Framed by the Artist GOLDEN STARDUST The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be made in the nuclear reactor of stars. I...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kate Breakey Art

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Gold Leaf

Sunflower
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 1834, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) saw that silver salts darkened in the sun and invented a photographic process he called “photogenic drawing” — in which images were made...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kate Breakey Art

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Silver Gelatin

Six Pears
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars. It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kate Breakey Art

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Gold Leaf

"Patricia's Tulips" (2000) By Kate Breakey, Archival Pigment Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Patricia's Tulips" (2000) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel that depicts a vase of wilted flowers. About the ...
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2010s Realist Kate Breakey Art

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Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment

Nest 11
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
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2010s Contemporary Kate Breakey Art

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Silk, Archival Pigment

Seven Finches on Yukka
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars. It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kate Breakey Art

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Gold Leaf

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