Kathryn Spence: Definite Tussock |
San Francisco-based artist Kathryn Spence combines sculptural objects with drawing and installation. Her work exposes a dislocation between nature and the artifice of culture and consumerism. She is an avid birder, gardener, and naturalist. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, most recently in solo shows at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. in 2012, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. Group exhibitions include the 2005 Corcoran Biennial, Washington D.C.,The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, SFMOMA, Mass College of Art, Boston, the California Biennial in Orange County Museum, SFMOMA, S.F., Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, S.F., San Jose Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California.She has received numerous awards such as an Artadia award, the Eureka Fellowship, the Fleischhacker Foundation award, and an Anonymous Was a Woman award. Selected public collections include SFMOMA, the de Young, the Oakland Museum of California, the San Jose Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Spence is represented by Stephen Wirtz Gallery. |
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