from Exhbition Catalogue
Perspective: Kansas City
Raphael Rubenstein
Senior Editor, Art in America
"This modular method is uncommon for the style of painting Arnold practices, but in her hands it serves only to enrich the visual and imaginative possibilities of the work...."
"...Looking at the slides of 72 Kansas City artists, then visiting the studios of 20 of them, was a refreshing, and challenging, experience for me because I had nothing on which to rely but my own response...
From Monet to Bonnard to Joan Mitchell, one of modern art's most central traditions has been color-rich painting that departs from the experience of landscape to travel the path toward abstraction. Kathryn Arnold is clearly a vigorous inheritor of this tradition. In 100!, Arnold presents the viewer with a slightly over 8-foot-square painting in which a myriad of gestural marks, mostly in red, blue and yellow, create a shimmering visual field. What's unusual about 100!, and what links it to the theme of this show, is that the painting is in fact made from 100 identically sized panels. Each of these
10-x-10-inch canvases is attached to a Velcro backing, so that the entire composition can be arranged at will. This modular method is uncommon for the style of painting Arnold practices, but in her hands it serves only to enrich the visual and imaginative possibilities of the work...."
From Perspective: Kansas City Catalogue
Johnson County Community College, Gallery of Art
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In 100!, Arnold presents the viewer with a slightly over 8-foot-square painting in which a myriad of gestural marks, mostly in red, blue and yellow, create a shimmering visual field. What's unusual about 100!, and what links it to the theme of this show, is that the painting is in fact made from 100 identically sized panels. |
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