Overview
Kaethe Kauffman

"Religious art glorifies the sacred experience. My imprint is personal and through my process, it is my inner world which is revealed for all to see."   -- Kaethe Kauffman

Hawaii-based artist Kaethe Kauffman’s most recent series of prints on silk documents both physical movement and meditative stasis. Using a string dipped in paint, the artist ties the filament around a hand, knee, elbow, or torso, and when the body part is flexed, the movement is recorded as a kind of off-printing. In Kauffman’s art, the body writes itself upon its own skin in a ritual of self-revelation. This act of marking and exposure is documented by Kauffman’s photographic images, which are digitally repeated and colored, drawn upon by hand in a variety of media and the vibrant results are printed on silk much like the large banners found in Buddhist temples. In an expansion of the body’s own “speech” through movement, Kaethe Kauffman’s images combine into larger fields of replication and mirroring, until the individual body is subsumed into a larger vision. 

 

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#1Hand black Polar Array © Kaethe Kauffman 2022 limited edition print on silk12x35-, 2022
Biography
Kaethe Kauffman

Body movements, captured  on  large swaths of silk, manifest a sense of time on the soft skin of space. 

Kaethe Kauffman was born in Cheverly, Maryland and grew up in Seattle. 

A long-time practitioner of yoga and body movement, Kaethe Kauffman has been the subject of solo exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad including the Rensselaer Newman Foundation, Troy, NY; Allen Gallery, Memphis, TN; Lichtundfire Gallery and Walter Wickiser Gallery in NYC, NY; Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY; Banco Gallery, Bethlehem, PA; University of Nebraska, Omaha; Berry College, Mount Berry, GA; Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague; and the Sierra Arts Foundation Gallery, Reno, NV. Upcoming exhibitions Castello 925, Venice, IT. in association with the 59th Venice Biennale. 

 

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Bibliography
Kaethe Kauffman

Art Exhibition Investigates Impacts of the Invisible - The Battalion

Dramatic Constructs - Dusty Wright's Culture Catch

Parallel Fields: Three Artists at Manhattan's Lichtundfire Gallery- Artes Magazine

Paralell Fields: Kathleen Elliot, Kaethe Kauffman, Bobbie Moline-Kramer at Lichtundfire Gallery - White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art

Kaethe Kauffman and Nolan Preece: Mixed Media Experimental Photography - Fabrik Magazine

Currents In Photography at Walter Wickiser Gallery - Huffington Post

Currents in Photography Five Person Group Exhibition of Photographic Mixed Media at the Walter Wickiser Gallery in New York

Body Mappings - dArt International

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