KAITLYN STUBBS
ARTIST STATEMENT
Completion, wholeness, and tranquility are elusive in our contemporary culture. Seemingly endless bombardment from media, advertising, and technology constantly evacuates us from our present time and space. In my work, I explore the experience of living in a society that fragments our identities. I make paintings that conflate multiple images onto a single plane. In keeping with methods seen in film montage and double exposure photography, I layer, fragment and compress images though the use of various technologies. In synthesizing images, I seek not to abstract reality, but rather to create a more whole representation of reality. I believe perception is a combination of space, time, body and consciousness. I want this perceptual belief present in my work; therefore I extrapolate on the fact that paintings innately still moments and conflate time. I choose to acknowledge the fragmented existence of today, while also providing a new, alternative wholeness for the viewer.
PROJECTS & RESIDENCIES
2013-2014 Active member of Big Irv's Artist Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Artist in Residence, One-Sided Story, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany 2008 Art & Culture in Latin America: Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands study abroad program 2008 Designed and executed a 50 foot mural, Penipe, Ecuador 2007 Art & Culture in Latin America: Costa Rica study abroad program 2007 Participated in painting a 20 foot mural, Escuela Altos de San Luis, Costa Rica |
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AWARDS & GRANTS
2012 The Richard Kubiak Memorial Curatorial Award recipient
2010-2011 Ladies Christian Union Housing Scholarship recipient 2009-2010 Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 2009 Vince Dooley Scholarship for the Arts recipient 2009 Jon Swindler’s Flying Tympan Award recipient 2008 Ashley Brooks Spirit & Courage Award recipient 2007 Elizabeth Suzanne Schaefer Scholarship recipient 2007 Katherine Murphy Scholarship recipient 2006-2010 HOPE Scholarship recipient |
PUBLISHED ARTICLES / INTERVIEWS
2012 Kaitlyn = Dreamy Translucent + Layers, ARTGYPSY Tales, interview
2012 The Walls Have Eyes: Horror at Kraine Gallery, PUZL magazine 2011 …Nightlife: The Art Exhibition, www.BlackBookMag.com 2008 House of Stone and Light: Lamar Dodd Gets a New Home in East Campus, University of Georgia Magazine 2008 Art Around Town, Flagpole Magazine 2008 Artistic roommates transform house into exhibition gallery, The Red & Black Newspaper |