KATHY GROVE
Biography
I am a 1970 graduate of Rhode Island School of Design with viscosity printing work at Atelier 17 in Paris, and MA and MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I moved to New York in 1978 and had had my first solo show at PPOW (1984). In 1989, Pace-MacGill Gallery exhibited my altered The Other Series photographs, in which I removed all women from masterpieces of the western canon. Solo shows of these images followed at Musee d’ L’Elysee, Lausanne; Fotografie Forum International, Frankfort, 2001; University of California, Long Beach and PPOW, both 1992. Metropolitan Museum acquired and featured these images in Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, 2012. I have been awarded an Anonymous Was a Woman grant and MacDowell, Yaddo, Dora Maar and Bogliasco Foundation fellowships. Galerie LeLong featured my new The Real Guerrilla Girls series, in collaboration with Petah Coyne, in their Narrative/Collaboration. In 2021, images from another series, Flotsam and Jetsam, was exhibited at LA Louver in California and will be included in several upcoming shows.
Project Description
Organizing Flotsam and Jetsam
For much of my career I have worked on distinct projects grouped in a series. These series continue over time. One of my series, titled The Other Series, has been exhibited, received public recognition and has been widely collected. Although individual images within other distinct series have been included in group shows they have not been editioned or presented as a whole.
My eight images from the Flotsam and Jetsam series are representative of this body of work. As an artist, I dredge the residue and catastrophe of history or the depths of my own family’s past or memories to the surface, to transform those disparate bits, pieces and shreds from diverse sources and eras into something both old and new—totally unforeseen, and hopefully unexpected. I have tried to conjure presences from another plane and have those spirits confront an event that they could not have foreseen or another entity embodies the chaos they chose to deny.
The Tree of Life grant would enable me to hire a studio assistant to help me organize my work via Lightroom, a digital software used to create a searchable visual library on my computer desktop, revise my out-of-date website, create an online presence and edition images from my Flotsam and Jetsam series. With the help of an assistant I am hoping to preserve these images both in physical form and make them more accessible via a re-vamped website.
Biography
I am a 1970 graduate of Rhode Island School of Design with viscosity printing work at Atelier 17 in Paris, and MA and MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I moved to New York in 1978 and had had my first solo show at PPOW (1984). In 1989, Pace-MacGill Gallery exhibited my altered The Other Series photographs, in which I removed all women from masterpieces of the western canon. Solo shows of these images followed at Musee d’ L’Elysee, Lausanne; Fotografie Forum International, Frankfort, 2001; University of California, Long Beach and PPOW, both 1992. Metropolitan Museum acquired and featured these images in Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, 2012. I have been awarded an Anonymous Was a Woman grant and MacDowell, Yaddo, Dora Maar and Bogliasco Foundation fellowships. Galerie LeLong featured my new The Real Guerrilla Girls series, in collaboration with Petah Coyne, in their Narrative/Collaboration. In 2021, images from another series, Flotsam and Jetsam, was exhibited at LA Louver in California and will be included in several upcoming shows.
Project Description
Organizing Flotsam and Jetsam
For much of my career I have worked on distinct projects grouped in a series. These series continue over time. One of my series, titled The Other Series, has been exhibited, received public recognition and has been widely collected. Although individual images within other distinct series have been included in group shows they have not been editioned or presented as a whole.
My eight images from the Flotsam and Jetsam series are representative of this body of work. As an artist, I dredge the residue and catastrophe of history or the depths of my own family’s past or memories to the surface, to transform those disparate bits, pieces and shreds from diverse sources and eras into something both old and new—totally unforeseen, and hopefully unexpected. I have tried to conjure presences from another plane and have those spirits confront an event that they could not have foreseen or another entity embodies the chaos they chose to deny.
The Tree of Life grant would enable me to hire a studio assistant to help me organize my work via Lightroom, a digital software used to create a searchable visual library on my computer desktop, revise my out-of-date website, create an online presence and edition images from my Flotsam and Jetsam series. With the help of an assistant I am hoping to preserve these images both in physical form and make them more accessible via a re-vamped website.