Kathleen Kane-Murrell
San Diego, CA
It is through art making and art history that I glimpse what it means to be human. Nothing else has ever touched these questions in quite the same way for me.
MessageThrough color, texture, and high touch surfaces, Kathleen’s work focuses on an abstract response to the human experience. She often uses classroom detritus in her mixed media work.
Her lifelong interest in art, education and the creative process has nurtured three careers. After graduation with a degree in marketing from San Diego State University, she worked as a corporate trainer and manager. In 1990, she translated corporate skills into an award- winning children’s art program, Fine Artists™.
Her professional art career began in 2007. She has exhibited throughout San Diego and Southern California, including solo shows in Liberty Station, Ray Street Arts District, Japanese Friendship Garden Museum, and Sophie’s Gallery. She has juried into the Oceanside Museum of Art, Cannon Gallery, San Diego Art Institute and La Jolla Athenaeum. Her work is held in personal collections throughout the United States, Japan and Singapore.
Statement
My work focuses on memory, transition, and repetition. It is through art making and art history that I glimpse what it means to be human. Nothing else has ever has touched these questions in quite the same way for me. I often reference a specific time and place without figurative imitation. When the viewer responds through their own history I feel I have given life to something beyond myself. And if the viewer reaches to touch the art, I know I have reached an elusive goal.
In mixed media work, I don’t intend to use what is thrown away. However, some “things” just have a potential of being. I want to see their second life. This surely comes from growing up in a large family and using what we had to make and re-make what we needed. It also must come from being an art teacher; I save everything to use again. As a natural outcome, I often incorporate classroom detritus not as the subject but to add energy, texture and memory to the work.
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