January 5th through February 15th, 2024

Gallery Hours - Wednesday through Sunday: 12-4pm

ARTIST STATEMENT

Kate McClure’s artistic career is marked by the exploration of materials and subject matter. Her  new work is abstract, conceptually based, and process-driven. Using bold color, gestural line, and texture, her simplified shapes float across the surface of the panel and provide contrast to the fields of color.

The viewer may recognize references to vessels, stones, trees, and even  writing in a way that is evocative rather than overt. Her interest is in the materiality of the paint  itself and creating a rich, dense surface that suggests old walls covered in graffiti. Using oil and  cold wax, as well as marble dust, wood ash, and oil pigment sticks, her paintings have a lush  textural quality achieved through many layers built up over time. Her work explores the basic  elements of art- line, shape, color, and the basic elements of our created world- space, air, and  surface. The paintings have a solidity and weight –a presence– anchoring us and the artist to  her experience as a human and individual.  

A native Tennessean and Virginia transplant, Kate received a BFA in Fine Art from Auburn  University. She continued her studies at the Florence Academy of Art. Kate has been a full-time  portrait artist for over a decade, and in 2019 she expanded her practice to include original  artwork. Kate’s work is part of the permanent collections of Auburn University and the  American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge. For more information, visit katemcclureart.com.