Kate Drewniak
Mixed Media / Collage
Lives and works in Boston, MA
Kate Drewniak's, airy, 3d mixed-media works blur the lines between painting, collage and sculpture. Her process includes hand painting paper, cutting, tearing, and sewing to reassemble layered pieces into a sculptural collage. Her work has been featured Full Blede, Boston Magazine, and Gallerie Magazine.
STATEMENT
“My work is about translating memories into tangible objects. I combine found materials that are often discarded like fabric remnants, books, and obsolete blueprints to make collages and installations. I want to preserve the history these materials contain while embracing their entropic nature. These pieces mimic the inherent nature of memory strands of thread will move, colors will fade, and sewn paper becomes delicate. I find beauty in evidence of decay like rust and brittle paper. By ripping apart documents and sewing them back together, I am creating new objects based on intuition and emotion instead of measurements and calculations. These tenuous structures give these materials a renewed purpose; creating a testament to the histories they hold.” - Kate Drewniak
EXHIBITIONS
2016, By a Thread, Anthropologie Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
2015, Fragments and Short Sentences, Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016, Brouhaha!, GRIN, Providence, RI
2016, Juror's Choice (juried by Elizabeth Devlin, founder of FLUX Boston), UForge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2016, Framework, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2015, MassArt Annual Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2015, 30 Under 30 (juried by Cherie Clinton and Marie Craig, Co-directors of Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA), Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2014, TEEM, GRIN, Providence, RI
2014, Scene by South Boston, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA
2014, SWELL, GRIN, Providence, RI
2013, Hundreds Show, Lincoln Arts Project, Waltham, MA
2013, HOME, GRIN, Providence, RI
2011, DONE, Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
2011, Ladies First, 303 Hancock Gallery, Dorchester, MA
2011, Chain Letter, Samson Project, Boston, MA
2010, All Female Show, RANT gallery, Chicopee, MA
2009, Feminism Gallery, Crackatorium, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2009, Poems We Didn't Write, Blue Guitar Gallery, Easthampton, MA
EDUCATION
2010 BFA, Painting. Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
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