Chosen from over 600 works by female artists in the permanent collection, this exhibit showcased the art by theme. Kate was honored to be hung with artists such as Mary Cassatt, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O’Keefe, and to have her artwork shown under the theme of Nature, with an essay in the catalogue.
"Evocatively extracting, abstracting, and integrating images and felt knowledge of nature, her gently rendered monotype {"Explosion of Amphibian Deformities"} allies poetic reflection and ecological warning." (p. 66)
Kate also participated in a day-long Symposium with the co-curators, both professors of Art History at the University of Hartford: Nancy Noble, who spoke on The New Women Artists: Redefining Modern Art, and Sherry Buckberrough, whose topic was Why Women Now: Women Artists in the 21st Century. Kate spoke on The Ecology of One Artist’s Journey.
To see the complete print of the Explosion of Amphibian Deformities, click on the detail at left.
Inner Terrain, an exhibition of Kate Cheney Chappell's intriguing artwork celebrating the wonders and questions of life and nature, wasl be the subject of a NEW/NOW exhibition on view at the New Britian Museum of American Art from March 7 - May 25, 2008.
Inner Terrain featured a variety of different works from Chappell's 3D mixed media images, collagraphs, monotypes and watercolors. Chappell fuses poetry with art for this exhibition, with much of her inspiration coming from Wendell Berry's poem, The Peace of Wild Things. A smaller exhibition within the larger one will be on view--Go Inside the Stone, based on Charles Simic's poem by the same title. Viewers will enter a sort of "stone zone," "…a place where time slows, a spiritual habitat of stones," as Chappell says.
To download a copy of Kate's Gallery Talk for the show, click here
To download a copy of Kate's Artist's Statement for the show, click here
Poems inspiring the work in the show included: The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendel Berry; Stone, by Charles Simac; Breath, by Kabir; and
Deep With the Winds, by Rainer Maria Rilke.
E • N • V • E • L • O • P • E
Monotypes, Collographs, Etchings, Mixed Media, and the Envelope Project
Octoer 3- 27, 2003
Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, Maine
Most printmaking starts with a hard surface from which an image can be transferred to paper. Lithographs begin with stone; dry point and etchings begin with copper or zinc plates. The surface is incised with tools, and may be etched with acid, before being inked, wiped, and printed on a press. Multiples of the same image (editions) are usually done in this way. This is the traditional approach.
Envelope Project The Envelope Project began when Kate read a poem by Maxine Kumin called "The Envelope". Having recently lost her own mother, Kate was moved by Kumin's unusual metaphor of daughter as container for the mother, and by her call to us as daughters to "carry our mothers forth in our bellies". She conceived of a one-of-a-kind artists' book of envelopes filled with the words and images of women artists and poets about their mothers. The following artists responded to Kate's invitation to fill the empty envelope she sent each one, and the Envelope Book was born:
Anne Gable Allaire
Susan Amons
Jan Bailey
Dyan Berk
Barrett Brewer
N.T. Brown
Kate Cheney Chappell
Rebecca Goodale
Mary Hart
Diane Jenkins
Kate Mahoney
Frankie Odom
Jan Owen
Quint Rose
Lynn Runnells
Dorothy Schwartz
Joanne Scott
Erika Soule
Alice Spencer
Mary Hart
Marylyn Wentworth
Tina Winslow
To download a copy of Kate's gallery talk for the show click here.
