Kathryn Cole: Bits and Pieces of a Place
| December 5, 2008 7:00 pm | to | January 15, 2009 7:00 pm |
Opening Reception December 5th - 7 to 10pm - part of Unblurred on Penn Avenue
2008 Grand Prize Winner of Modernformations Annual Spring Salon - Kathryn Cole
Kathryn says: “Bits and Pieces of a Place”, is the working title of my first solo show opening at ModernFormations in December. The body of work will be an investigation into the qualities of the city I have been calling home for the last year.
After living in Pittsburgh six months or so the city began to creep into my work. First it was just the color palette of dusty blues and grays, then the endless days of clouds, and now it’s the houses that stack up the side of her many hills.
I spend hours roaming the streets looking for little metal cast-offs and bits to be reincarnated in my impressions of the city. As a metal smith, I feel a unique bond to this “Steel City”. Each little metal scrap I find seems to have so much more importance because of where I have found it. Whether is it a crushed can or a part fallen off a truck, all of these bits are part of what Pittsburgh is. Perhaps using parts of this city will help me define it…
Show runs through January 15th.
