A:LIST A Project of the Hyde Park Art Center

Kathryn Kucera

Artist Information

Born: Milwaukee, WI
Currently Resides: Mount Prospect, IL

Contact Information
Email:
kk30 (at) wowway (dot) com

Medium(s) Worked in:

Mixed-Media
Collage

Teaching Certified: No

Available for Commission: Yes

HPAC Exhibitions

2007, Another Story
2006, Just Good Art

Artist Statement

These collages were created over several years not only in my studio but often as I traveled on trips to Europe, Asia, and South America. They visualize my personal responses to varied locations, their geography, their climate and cultures, to current headlines and the spirit of the times. I hope to elicit ambivalence, tension and fears, the complexity of the accelerated pace of life today. Working with papers available wherever I find myself, I compile these arrangements of digital and paper images proliferating in our times. The ready medium seems suited to the immediate processing of my elusive perceptions, my fleeting impressions, and the ambiguities they imply.

Artist Bio

My background includes an MFA from the School of the Art Institute which I earned after my 4 children were almost grown. My post graduate experience with mixed media often on a fairly large scale has evolved into collage partly because I travel frequently and find myself inspired by the stimuli of unfamiliar surroundings. I find local materials when I travel and collage enable me to realize fleeting visualizations and concepts and to capture impressions and ideas almost as they occur. I can derive the pleasure of the moment.

Past Exhibitions

WOMEN AND THE EARTH Oakton Community College Des Plaines, IL

MILLENNIAL MILIEU Quigley Gallery Dubuque, IA (One person show)

2008 CAC AROUND TOWN Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL

2008 COLLAGE Founders Gallery Elmhurst College Elmhurst, IL

2007 GLOBAL NARROWING Osterle Gallery North Central College Naperville, IL

2007 GLOBAL GLIMPSES Montgomery Ward Gallery University of Illinois in Chicago Chicago, IL

2007 AOTHER STORY Hyde Park Art Center Chicago. IL

2006 PARALLELED POLITIES Lakefront on Langdon (one person show) University of Wisconsin Madison, WI

1978 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE TODAY Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN

1977 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE TODAY Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IL

1977 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OF THE MIDWEST Washington Gallery Indianapolis, IN

1976 INSTALLATIONS (one person invitational) Clarke Collage Dubuque, IA

2006 - 2003 JUST GOOD ART Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, IL (annual exhibits)

2006 - 2003 WOMENS DAY EXHIBIT Oakton Community College Des Plaines, IL

2003 EXQUISITE SNAKE Printworks Gallery Chicago, IL

2001 FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD School of the Art Institute Gallery Chicago, IL

1974 - 1998 Artemisia INVITATIONAL’s: Bradley University, Peoria, IL— Washington Women’s Art Center— Rock Valley College, Rockford IL— Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA— Madison Art Center, Madison, WI— Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL

1992 COLOR, STYLE, AND FANTASY Krasl Art Center Saint Joseph, MI

1991 - 1992 Successive shows Lakeside Gallery Lakeside, MI

1989 PAPER AS SCULTPTURE Forum Gallery Brookhaven College Dallas, TX

1988 WATERCOLOR IMPRESSIONS (one person show) Levy Center Evanston, IL

1988 RITES OF PASSAGE Northwestern University Evanston, IL

1988 FALL INVITATIONAL Dellora A Norris Center Saint Charles, IL

1987 NINE ON NATURE Beacon Street Gallery Chicago, IL

1985 - 1981 Faculty Exhibits Columbia Collage Chicago, IL

1982 - 1980 Corporate Art Source Galleries Chicago, IL

1982 Paul Waggoner Gallery Haitian Benefit Exhibit and Contemporary Art Workshop Exhibit

1980 COLLAGE I INVITATIONAL Evanston , IL

1979 MERRILL CHASE GALLERIES CORPORATE DIVISION EXHIBIT
First National Plaza Chicago, IL

1979 - 1977 Chicago Academy of Art Faculty Exhibit/s Chicago, IL

1978 ARTEMISIA AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Chicago, IL

1978 - 1974 FACULTY EXHIBIT Evanston Art Center Evanston, IL

1978 Name Gallery Chicago, IL

1977 FABRIC AS IDEA Northwestern University Evanston, IL

1977 OLGA SCHUBKEGEL MEMORIAL SALON Hammond, IL

1977 34th ANNUAL SALON Northern Indiana Center for the Arts Hammond, IN

1977 BURPEE MUSEUM SHOW Rockford, IL

1976 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S YEAR ART FESTIVAL Ford Foundation New York City, NY

1976 THE PAPER ARTIST Moving women’s Art Center Madison, WI

1974 DRAWING SHOW Quincy, IL

1974 TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP ART EXHIBITION Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL

1974 UNION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART EXHIBITION Conrad Hilton Hotel Chicago, IL

1974 THE SENSE OF WOMAN Countryside Gallery Arlington Heights, IL

1973 SEPTEMBER SHOW Wabash Transit Gallery School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL

1973 FABRICATIONS Ann Arbor, MI

1967 SAIC AT WESTMINSTER HOUSE Chicago, IL