An Artist in Greece – Catherine Kernan
Travel Sketches, Paintings, and Prints 1973 – 2021
October 13 – December 3, 2022
The Embassy of Greece
2217 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington D.C.
With profound thanks I dedicate this exhibit to the many in Greece who have been part of my life and who have welcomed me into their lives over the past forty-eight years.
Against the Grain
Woodcut Monoprints 2020-2021
December 3, 2021 - January 1, 2022
1st Friday Opening: Friday December 3, 2021
Reception: Saturday December 11, 3-5 pm
Soprafina Gallery
www.soprafina.com
55 Thayer Street, Boston, MA 02118
617-728-0770
Against the Grain is a series of woodcut monoprints from 2020 – 2021 using soy based Akua Intaglio inks.
Working at the interface between printmaking and painting, these singular prints are the result of combining multiple large-scale woodblocks and offsets to polycarbonate plates. By never inking the same way twice, using many viscosity rolls, and rarely printing directly from the blocks to paper, the process remains engaging and unpredictable.
The images are metaphors for the erratic, often confusing, sometimes revelatory psychological path we must all navigate through times of collision and confession. Occasionally the pathway is clear, but the destination is an aspiration, not a certainty. My visual vocabulary is one of fragmentation, interruption, reflection, and variation.
Although abstract, the works are grounded in my direct observation of nature—specifically one lake in upstate New York that I have returned to my entire life, stimulated by the changeable perceptions of light on the water, foliage, and depths below the surface. Underlying this work is my belief that human relationships with the earth are dynamic and interactive, but also fragile.
Singular and Serial
July 9 – September 19, 2020
Cove Street Arts
Portland, ME 04101
Covestreetarts.com
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Time and Again
New Monoprints by Catherine Kernan
Opening First Friday
November 1, 2019
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Reception and Demonstration
Saturday November 9, 2019
3 - 5 pm
Soprafina Gallery
55 Thayer Street
Boston, MA 02118
Time and Again takes a narrative stance using a visual vocabulary of fragmentation, interruption, and reflection. Underlying the work is the premise that human relationships with the earth are dynamic, reciprocal, and move in ever-evolving cycles of repetition and variation.
Selections from Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint
Soprafina Gallery
55 Thayer Street
Boston, MA 02118
August 24 - September 28, 2019
Soprafina Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of singular prints selected from the recently published book Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint
Reception: Friday, September 6 at 5:30 pm
Book signing and sale at the opening and again on September 14, 3 - 5 pm
Perimeters
Soprafina Gallery
55 Thayer Street
Boston, MA 02118
May 4 – 27, 2017
First Friday
May 5, 5:30-7:30pm
Artist's Reception
Saturday, May 13, 2-4pm
Breathing Space
Soprafina Gallery
55 Thayer Street
Boston, MA 02118
April 3 – 30, 2015
Catherine Kernan’s imagery is rooted in nature. Combining printmaking and painting through the means of abstraction, she develops a visual code that balances rhythm and texture, a sense of order and chaos, or as Kernan puts it, embodies “the control and serendipity of life itself.”
AfterImages: New Woodcut Monoprints
Soprafina Gallery
55 Thayer Street
Boston, MA 02118
March 1 – March 30, 2013
A series of woodcut monoprints about memory reconstruction and visual perception, these works are large in scale and rich with complex overlays. Working at the interface between printmaking and painting, Kernan uses woodblocks in unorthodox ways to build images layer by layer in a painterly process of controlled accident.
Process and Purpose
The Ink Shop Printmaking Center
Ithaca, NY
Alan Singer, Curator
February 3 – March 31, 2012
"Process and Purpose" is an exhibition that represents the evolution of an art form. The primary goal is to highlight terrific prints made by a group of significant artists that extend the range of what printmaking is and will be.
Each participating artist contributes fresh energy – changing the scope of printmaking by confronting certain subjects or procedures. Artists invent new techniques and methods to express something that couldn't have been done otherwise.
reThink INK: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio
Boston Public Library
Boston MA
Karen Shafts, Curator
April 11 – July 31, 2012
For twenty-five years Mixit Print Studio has served as one of Boston's premier intellectual and artistic printmaking communities. Although we each explore our unique ideas, we interact and collaborate in countless ways. Because we share space, presses, and equipment, we encounter ways of generating, and executing ideas that would not happen in our own studios. Cross-fertilization is the hallmark of a collaborative print studio such as ours. Artists come to find aesthetic nourishment, technical exchange, critical feedback and the resources to realize their art projects. They leave with the indelible experience of having worked in a cooperative studio.
Mixit Print Studio was established in 1987 as a direct outgrowth of Artist's Proof Studio, a four-partner printmaking cooperative in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1980-84). The original partners, Jane Goldman and Catherine Kernan, were joined in 2010 by third partner Randy Garber.
reThink INK is an unprecedented showing of large scale and dimensional printmaking, as well as work from Boston area artist printmakers using a wide range of techniques and concepts.
Works on Paper
Cynthia Reeves – New England
PO Box 187
57 South Main
Hanover, NH 03755
603 640 6155
March 30 – May 1, 2012
The Boston-Joburg Connection: Transformation and Exchange at Artist Proof Studio Johannesburg, 1995-2010
Tufts University Art Gallery
Pam Allara, Curator
May 31 – July 29, 2012
artgallery.tufts.edu
This exhibition charts the transformation of South African society over the past 25 years from Apartheid to democracy through the collaborative printmaking of the Artists' Proof Studio, Johannesburg, and its Boston colleagues from Tufts/ the Museum School and Mixit Studio.
The influence of the artists of Artist Proof Studio on the Boston-based workshop leaders is less immediate but nonetheless significant: the expansion of their own knowledge and understanding of life experiences very different from their own. When they returned to teaching in the US, they absorbed and practiced the concept of ubuntu.
The artists from APS who came to teach workshops at the Boston Arts Academy have returned the gift of sharing knowledge to Boston.
Coming of Age Exhibition: 21 years of APS @JAG
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Johannesburg SA
Kim Berman, Curator
April – June 2012
http://www.artistproofstudio.co.za
Artist Proof Studio was founded as a community-based printmaking studio in 1991 by Kim Berman and the late Nhlanhla Xaba. Over the past twenty years, Artist Proof Studio has trained two generations of artists who would have had otherwise little access to professional education in printmaking, many of whom have been recognized as among South Africa's most important young talents.
American Impressions: Contemporary Printmaking
Shanghai International Convention Center
Shanghari China
Rosemary Cooley, Curator
April 2012
“American Impressions: Contemporary Printmaking” is an exhibition arranged and curated by Rosemary Cooley to bring some examples of contemporary American printmaking to Mainland China.