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Indepth Arts News:
"Kathi Packer : Ngorongoro Passage"
2011-03-01 until 2011-03-26
First Street Gallery
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
The First Street Gallery presents the exhibition Kathi Packer : Ngorongoro Passage from March 1 through 26, 2011. At first glance, Packer’s work portrays a common drama played out daily on the plains of Africa. Slowly, this perceived drama reveals a universal message of survival and vulnerability. Her new work explores the image of zebras in the wild but goes beyond mere visual description. Each image is a fragment of movement and time. These ephemeral postures could at once depict a falling, resting, dying or a joyously playful animal. The viewer doesn’t really know the beginning, middle or end of this choreography, nor the context. Similarly, the character of the landscape depicted creates a fluid atmosphere where dust and mist provide a delicate but ambiguous veil to the drama or joy of the moment. The First Street Gallery promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com .
“I never intended for my safari trip in Africa to radically redirect my creative sensibilities. At the outset, it was simply a long anticipated voyage of discovery. It was only later in my studio, that I realized how profoundly this experience had affected me.”
--Kathi Packer
Packer’s work retains a strong sense of intimacy. Her small paintings read much larger than the dimensions suggest. The painterly passages of color and texture focus attention on the translucency and opacity of the painting. Similarly, the larger drawings invite the viewer into a self-contained world of movement and reveal her sense of drama through a bold, expressive quality of line. While never intended as studies for other work, the drawings nonetheless inform her paintings and vice versa.
Kathi Packer’s work is represented in several institutional collections including The New Britain Museum of American Art, Galeria Nacional de Costa Rica, The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, The Phoenix Corporation and Hartford Hospital. She is also represented in private collections throughout the United States.
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