Katherine Porter
Katherine Porter is an American artist born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1941. Porter is considered one of the most important contemporary artists associated with Maine.[1] Through the medium of painting and drawing her visually stunning canvass convey the conflict inherent in life. She expresses her ideas with a visual vocabulary that is "geometric and gestural, abstract and figurative, decorative and raw, lyric and muscular."[1] She has shown twice in the Whitney Biennial and solo exhibitions at the Knoedler Gallery in London, the Nina Nielsen Gallery in Boston, and the Andre Emmerich and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[2] Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Tel Aviv Museum in Jerusalem.[3][4][5] She currently resides in Maine.
Early life and education
Katherine Porter was born and raised in rural Iowa. She moved to Colorado in the late 1950's where received her BA from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1963. While living in Colorado Porter met her husband Stephen Porter. As a couple they traveled to South America, spending time in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, and Peru. The time spent there imbued Porter with a sense of concern for the political and social conflict in South America. Much of Porter's paintings between the mid-1970s and early 1980s. They were married between 1962-1967.[citation needed]
Katherine Porter attended Boston University in 1962, and received an honorary doctorate from Colby College in 1982.
Bibliography
- Porter, Katherine; Rose Art Museum (1985). Katherine Porter: paintings, 1969-1984. Waltham, Mass.: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. OCLC 13186606. Search this book on
- Porter, Katherine; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1980). Katherine Porter: works on paper 1969-1979: an exhibition. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. ISBN 9780884010340. OCLC 6922285. Search this book on
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Moss, Stacey (1991). Kathrine Porter: Paintings/Drawings. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Search this book on
- ↑ Rewald, Sabine (Fall 1990). "New York Number" (PDF). Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 48 (2): 76.
- ↑ "Katherine Porter". Vermont Studio Center. Archived from the original on December 24, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
- ↑ http://katherineporter.net
- ↑ "Katherine Porter". Arthur S. Goldberg Collection at Northeastern University Library. Archived from the original on 24 August 2014.
External links
- Katherine Porter works in the Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Katherine Porter works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Katherine Porter works in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Katherine Porter works in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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