Artist Information:
Thomas Kite
snohomish, WA
United States
Member Since: Jun 2006
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Artist Statement:
Georgia O'Keeffe said, "I
found I could say things with
color and shapes that I
couldn't say any other way --
things I had no words for".
This is close to my view.
Seems to me, Beauty is a
property of Art. To quote
Buckminster Fuller, "When I am
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Artist Exhibitions:
Please see Commissions or to
find out more go to:
http://www.thoskitedesign.com/b
io.htm
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Commissions:
Over 15 years thru '70s and
'80s, Thomas Kite created
hundreds of works, numerous
private and commercial
commissions, and was
represented for many years by
Hobe Sound Galleries North,
part of Midtown Payson
Galleries in NYC. In 2004, he
created Thos. Kite Design,
Inc. to pick up where he left
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Thomas Kite's Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Thomas Kite's Portfolio.
Georgia O'Keeffe said, "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way -- things I had no words for". This is close to my view.
Seems to me, Beauty is a property of Art. To quote Buckminster Fuller, "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I've finished, if the solution isn't beautiful, I know it's wrong."
Any solution graced with Beauty is Art. This is regardless of whether it seems affirming, joyful, dark or even very deeply disturbing.
Creation is a process of Beauty- just as a snowfall creates its beauty. That Beauty exists in Art long after the act of creation is over, likely comes in some part from freezing a moment in the beauty of the making. Yet this begs a more fundamental question whose form and answer takes shape in the Art object itself.
Means to make Art once, frees a mind to do it again and again. However, when art makers maintain an easily identified 'style', the tedious refinements of their technique soon dilute or suffocate the very objects ... |
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Blind Joy, 2006
Cast Glass,
11 x 8 X 2 inches
Availability: Sold
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untitled, 2006
Glass,
5 x 3 feet
Not for Sale
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