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Kate MacDowell’s work explores our physical and psychological relationships with the animal kingdom. Whether as proxy, trophy, raw material, or mythic symbol, animals currently occupy a space in our subconscious which layers history, fable, and an awareness of species fragility.
About Kate MacDowell
Kate MacDowell’s hand-built porcelain sculptures respond to environmental threats and their consequences, revealing the rifts and frictions between man and nature. Based out of Portland, Oregon, her work has been shown throughout the US and Europe at Scope Miami and New York, Seattle Art Fair, ArtAmsterdam, Art London, London Art Fair, Showoff Paris , Art Paris, Solo Project Basel, NEXT and Art Chicago fairs. She was an artist in residence at the Kohler Arts and Industry Program and has had work in group exhibits in the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Banksy’s Dismaland Bemusement Park, MOCA North Miami and Virginia, and the Akron, Crocker and Everson Art Museums.
Her work has been published in books and periodicals including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Hi-Fructose, American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Beautiful Bizarre, O.K. Periodicals (NL), Creative Review and Rooms (UK), and Hey! (Paris) among others. Her work was featured on the CD and single cover art for Erasure’s album, “Tomorrow’s World” and she can be seen sculpting in stop motion in the official audio video for a song on Miike Snow’s ‘III’ album.
Kate MacDowell’s newest work explores our physical and psychological relationships with the animal kingdom. Whether as proxy, trophy, raw material, or mythic symbol, animals currently occupy a space in our subconscious which layers history, fable, and an awareness of species fragility. MacDowell uses a variety of methods to create these pieces from hand sculpting porcelain, often building a solid form and then hollowing it out, to slip casting and assembling multiples. She sees each piece as a captured and preserved specimen, a painstaking record of endangered natural forms and a commentary on our own culpability.
Kate MacDowell CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Seattle Art Fair with Mindy Solomon Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015
Kate MacDowell: Completely Exposed, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2013
Fragile Endurance, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2008
After Eden, Beet Gallery, Portland, OR
Window Project II, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
A Telling Instinct: John James Audubon, exhibit at Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
76th Scripps College Ceramic Annual, group exhibit at Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA
2019
Undying Traditions: Memento Mori, exhibit at Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
Subversive Suburbia, group exhibit at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Gaia Reborn: A Future Utopia, at Project M/Urban Nation Museum, Berlin, Germany
Ceramics: Walk on the Wild Side, group exhibit at Pence Art Gallery, Davis, CA
Animals Among Us, Red Lodge Clay Center curated by Russell Wrankle and I, Red Lodge, MT
A Delicate Nature, an NCECA group exhibit with Antler Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
A Beautiful Ghost, group exhibit at Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018
Small Works: Big Impact, group exhibit at Momentum Gallery, Asheville, NC
Raise A Glass: A Contemporary…, group exhibit at Gallery 224 (Harvard), Cambridge, MA
Audubon, Then and Now, group exhibit at The Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
Life Is a Beautiful Place: A Radical Collaboration, group exhibit at Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics, group exhibit at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2017
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Shadowtide, NCECA exhibit with Gosia and Sarah Louise Davey, Talon Gallery, Portland, OR
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose, group exhibit at Akron Art Museum, OH
Solastalgia: Artists Respond…, exhibit at North View Gallery, Portland Community College, OR
Foundrae jewelry display props, New York Fashion Week, NY
2016
Intersectionality in South Florida, group exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art N. Miami, FL
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose, group exhibit at Virginia MOCA, VA
AAF London Battersea Park, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
London Art Fair, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
The Engaged Object: Contemporary Craft as a Catalyst… Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
2015
Beautiful Grotesque, group exhibit at Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO
Dismaland, group exhibit in Banksy’s Bemusement Park at Weston-super-Mare, UK
Trophies and Prey: A Contemporary Bestiary, group exhibit at Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2014
Intense and Fragile: Contemporary Porcelain Sculpture, Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2013
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon Gallery, Houston, Texas
Body & Soul: New International Ceramics, group exhibit, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York City, NY
Responsibility, group exhibit with Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Switzerland
artParis, art fair, group exhibit with Gallerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
Scope NY, group exhibit with Patrajdas Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
2012
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon gallery, Houston, TX
German Mettlach Ware & Present-Day Translations, AMOCA (American Museum of Ceramic Art), Pomona, CA
Earth & Alchemy: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
The solo project Basel 2012, w/ Marina de Caro, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Basel, Switzerland
Natural Macabre, exhibit with Roxanne Jackson and Shay Church, Seattle Design Center, NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Earth Precipice, group exhibit, Seattle Design Center, NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Seeing Ourselves, group exhibit of photography with MUSECPMI, New York, NY
SCOPE New York, group exhibit with Patrajdas Contemporary gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011
SCOPE Miami, group exhibit with Patrajdas Contemporary gallery, Philadelphia, PA
SCOPE Miami, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Night Scented Stock, group exhibit with Marianne Boesky gallery, NYC, NY
Shadowside, Part II, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
Vernisage, group exhibit with Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
Art Chicago, group exhibit with Patrajdas Contemporary gallery, Chicago, IL
Florida Souvenirs, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
London Art Fair, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
2010
Find me a gift, group exhibit with Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
Art London, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
Animal Instinct, John Micheal Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
DIY: A Revolution in Handicrafts, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Selcted Solo Exhibitions 2010 cont’d
BAM Biennial 2010: Clay Throwdown!, juried group exhibition, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
ArtHamptons, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Shadowside, bo.lee gallery, Bath, UK
Art in the Kitchen, artKitchen and Gallery A, Art Amsterdam Fair, Netherlands
NEXT Chicago, group exhibition with Patrajdas Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Café Endlager, exhibition and technology museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Bright and White, small group exhibition, Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Earth Matters, NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) invitational group exhibit, The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
CERAM-A-RAMA, Ceramics Research Center gala fundraiser live auction/exhibit, ASU Art Museum, Tempe (AZ)
Corporeal Manifestations, group invitational exhibit, Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Sitka Center Art Invitational, group exhibit, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
Proverbial Porcelain, short-listed sculpture exhibition for the Zelli Porcelain Award, Zelli Porcelain, London, UK
OPA/Hokkaido Exchange Exhibition, OPA juried show, Sapporo Contemporary Museum, Sapporo, Japan
Curiosities, four-person exhibition, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Feats of Clay 2009, Lincoln Arts and Culture Foundation, juried exhibition Gladding McBean Factory, Lincoln, CA
A Mixed Bag of Small Ceramic Wonders, invitational exhibition, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin –Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
NICHE Awards, Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft, Philadelphia, PA
2008
CraftForms 2008, international juried exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Envisioning a Future, juried show, South Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
After Eden, solo exhibition, Beet Gallery, Portland, OR
Sculpted Green, 2008 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue City Hall, Bellevue, WA
Blackfish Window Gallery, solo window exhibition, Portland, OR, 2008
Viewpoint: Ceramics 2008 national juried show, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
Clay? II, international ceramics exhibition, jurors: Jamie Walker, Akio Takamori, and Doug Jeck, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2007
Supernatural, juried group show for Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA:07, Swigert Commons, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2007 Craft Biennial, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
The Figure: Transcribing the Human Form, national juried show, Campbell Hall Gallery, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
EDUCATION
1995
MA, Brown University, Providence, RI
1994
BA, Brown University, Providence, RI
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2018
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Residency, Otis, OR
2012
John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency, Sheboygan, WI
2010
Professional Development Grant, RACC, Portland, OR
2009
Short-listed, Zelli Porcelain Award 2009, Zelli Porcelain, London, UK
Best of Show, Feats of Clay 2009, Lincoln Arts and Culture Foundation, Lincoln, CA
Winner, Ceramics: Hand-built/Molded, 2009 NICHE Awards, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Visionary Award of Excellence, CraftForms 2008, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
First Prize, Honorable Mention, Viewpoint: Ceramics 2008, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
Best of Show, Clay? II, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2007
Individual Merit Award, 2007 Craft Biennial, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2nd place, Oregon Potters Association Ceramics Showcase, Portland, OR
Bob & Peggy Culbertson Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Kiln God Residency, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
PUBLICATIONS
2018
Empathetic Space on Screen… by Amedeo D’Adamo, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 226-230
Tribeca Citizen, “New Kid on the Block: Foundrae” April 9
Syracuse New Times, “Creative Energy Drives Everson Museum’s…” by Carl Mellor, March 28
2017
Ecotheo Review, Winter-Spring 2017, “Ability vs. culpability: Kate MacDowell” beautiful.bizarre magazine (Australia), #16, “Kate MacDowell” by Justine Morrow, pp.56-65
2016
Shop Talk, Edinboro Uni., vol. 7, Spring, “Kate MacDowell…” by Sara Catapano, pp. 57-64
Telegraph (U.K),”A Brooklyn Brownstone inspired by…” by Jessica Doyle, March 12
Miike Snow III, Stop motion video used as official audio for song,‘I feel the weight’
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose, exhibit catalog, Virginia MOCA, pp. 82-83
Write About Art (Australia), issue 6, “Beheading Mother Nature” by Kate Atkinson, pp. 52-54
The New Age of Ceramics, by Hannah Stouffer, Gingko Press, “Kate MacDowell” pp. 292-301
Hey! 4 Degrees Art (France), by Anne & Julien, Special Issue 2, “Kate MacDowell” p. 128
2015
Banksy’s Dismaland exhibition was covered in most major media
Bound in Being: An Obliged Ontology, New Directions in Ecotheology Panel, Lily Oster, Atlanta
Santa Fe New Mexican: Pasatiempo, “Pride of the Animal Kingdom… by Iris McLister, Aug 7
Hi-Fructose Magazine,“Mutiny…The Art of Kate MacDowell”, 16 page insert, Vol 37
BioArt: Altered Realities, by William Myers, flyleaf illustration and “Kate MacDowell” pp. 48-49
2014
San Antonio Current, “Porcelain Gets a Modern Makeover in ‘Intense and Fragile’” by Dan R. Goddard, Dec. 3
Vision magazine (China) “Kate MacDowell: Craftsmanship Feature” by Jessica, no. 142, August, pp. 185-189
ARTnews, “10 Cool Trends in Contemporary Ceramic Art” by Alexander Mahany, June 16
Terrart Magazine (Spain), “Body & Soul report” by Merced Coma, no. 44, First Semester 2014
Art of Ceramics, “Kate MacDowell” by Carolina Amell, editor Josep Ma Minguet, publisher: Monsa, Barcelona. pp. 48-53
New York Times, “It’s Mourning in America “ by Penelope Green (portrait of home of collector Tracy Martin) slide 20. April 9
Ceramics: Art & Perception (Australia), “Body & Soul: New International Ceramics” by Jan Garden Castro, issue #95, March
Es Madrid no Madriz Magazine (Spain), “Kate MacDowell: Fragil conexion” by EMNMM No. 21, March, pp. 34-48
2013
Body & Soul: New International Ceramics, exhibition catalog, curated by Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, MAD Museum, NYC
Zoom on Fashion Trends (Milan), “Clarity” issue, no. 52, Nov. 2013, cover art
Selcted Publications 2013 cont’d
Boston Globe, “Arts Wednesday”, Oct. 13, p. G3
Ceramics: Art & Perception, “Earth & Alchemy” by Janet Koplos, issue #93, Sept., pp. 70-75
Hey! Modern art & Pop Culture (Paris), “Kate MacDowell” by Anne & Julien, #14, pp. 54-63
Little Thing Magazine (China), “Interview with Kate MacDowell” by O. Elephant, #30, pp. 66-69
American Craft, “More Than Human” by Julie K. Hanus, April/May, Vol. 73, no. 2, p. 33
2012
The Best of 500 Ceramics, Celebrating a Decade in Clay, Lark Crafts
Creator Magazine (UK), Tu Tu Much Media, issue 05, pp. 10-19
Migrate (South Africa), “Kate MacDowell: Change the World” Viva! 015, pp. 20-25, cover
Ceramics Ireland (Ireland), “Natural Macabre” issue 29, pp. 18-20
2011
Rooms Magazine (UK), “Kate MacDowell: the porcelain that pairs…”, by Adan Jerreat-Poole, pp. 12-19, issue #7
SKULL STYLE: Skulls in Contemporary Art and Design (New York), by Farameh Media LLC
Tomorrow’s World, cd and single cover art designed by Tom Hingston for Erasure album
Kult Magazine (Singapore), “Animals” issue
Bioephemera, “Kate MacDowell: Bloodless Bodies”, by Jessica Palmer, Sept 7
Doppelganger: Images of the Human Being (Berlin), by Gestalten: exploring visual culture
American Craft, “Craft’s New Consciousness”, pp. 26-27, review by Savannah Schroll Guz, Feb/Mar 2011
2010
Ceramics Art and Perception, “Corporeal Manifestations”, pp. 82-83, review by Colette Copeland, Dec 2010 #82
Dark Inspiration: grotesque illustrations, art and design (Hong Kong), viction:ary, pp. 46-55
American Style, “Kate MacDowell”, 2010 Emerging Artists, issue 74, Nov
Ms. Use (Israel), Eco Sex, vol. 2, summer
Selcted Publications 2010 cont’d
Eat your Art Out: food in the arts (Netherlands), Harry Ruhe’ & Jeannette Dekeukeleire, artKitchen gallery and Galerie A
BANG Art (Italy), Speciale Animali, “Amabilichimere”, by Rosa Maria Albino, pp. 74-75, #7
Quotation: Worldwide Creative Journal (Japan), by Daisuke Nishimura, p. 51, no. 8, summer
Western Humanities Review, cover art and multiple photo illustrations, Vol. LXV, no. 2
Creative Review Magazine (U.K.), “Hi-Res” pp. 20-21, June
Bear Deluxe Magazine, The Creative Nonfiction Issue, “Independent Art”, #30, p. 3
2010 NCECA Invitational Earth Matters Catalog, essays by Nichole Burisch and Glen Brown
Hi-Fructose Magazine, “Cross-sectioning Ghosts with Kate MacDowell”, Jen Pappas, Vol 15
O.K Periodicals (Netherlands), Vol. 4, “Curiosities”, p. 80
Calle20 Magazine (Spain), “Escultures de Sueños”, Luisa Bernal, pp.18-23, No. 46
New York Times Sun. Magazine, “Is There an Ecological Unconscious? “, photo illustrations
2009
Ceramics Monthly, “Curiosities”, Upfronts section, September, p. 18
The: Santa Fe’s Monthly Magazine for the Arts, “Curiosities”, by Marin Sardy, August, p. 56
500 Ceramic Sculptures, Juror: Glen R. Brown, Editor Suzanne Tourtillott, Lark Books
2008 425 Magazine, “Sustainable Sculptures – Seeing Green in Bellevue”, Jenny Lynn Zappala
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Sandy Besser (NM)
Susan and William Beech (CA)
Pat Sullivan and Jim Kolva (WA)
George Goldstein (NM)
Cindy Oikawa Gutierrez (NM)
Avra Leodas (NM)
Selcted Private collections cont’d
Dean Spong (NY)
Margo Jacobsen (OR)
Martha Banyas and Michael Hoeye (OR)
Sandy Japel (OR)
Leo Michelson (OR)
Lis Kalogris (PA)
Candace Groot (IL)
Chris Weitz (CA)
Guillermo del Toro (CA)
Tracy Martin (NY)
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Permanent Collection (WI)
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January 4, 2020/by Frances TromblyDavid Hicks and Kate MacDowell in Everson Museum of Art Exhibition
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