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The Line As Folding

Exhibition Dates:
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Reception:
  • Kate Sable
  • Kate Sable
  • Kate Sable
  • Kate Sable
  • Kate Sable
  • Kate Sable

My primary practice explores the tension between the angst, comical and tender moments of narrative relationships that dance between analytical and intuitive investment in the material through process-led abstraction.
I think a lot about personal metaphor along with the idea of touch in my work, especially from a nonverbal place: where the perception of marks on the picture plane recall the experience of touch or movement. It's that material perspective, working and reworking the way paint responds during a moment of making, falling, folding, overlapping, that motivates me. Idiosyncratic repetition and geometric abstraction have always held my attention, however recently my compositions are decidedly more organic, while the object within my paintings often feel like a container, the material falls through the compositions, and the fretwork of nets both contain and activate the physicality of my work. Painting allows me to illustrate sensations that feel both familiar and peculiar, fleshy and ever growing.

A painting becomes an interesting object to me after I've spent the time responding and reacting to the surface, navigating tensions between analytical and intuitive decisions, drawing lines between viscera and décor, while interjecting problems that I may be able to respond to, and work around. I want a painting to be loaded with jokes, clunky shapes, and a shifting figure-ground relationship, but also to find its own idiosyncratic resolve--becoming something that exists purely as the thing itself.


Kate Sable, 2022