KATHY KISSIK

HELLO ART LOVERS

The Assemblage Point series is my latest body of artwork comprised of mixed media assemblage paintings of factory temples. These artworks are portals and seeds. Born out of a need to create things I require in my life and fundamental necessities for all. Art can be more than a reflection of the construct we exist within. It has power to inform and shape reality. These fetishes offer up ideas of a future. I have a list of over 40 potential factles*. I approach each one with focus, but also openly surrender to serendipity and universal flow. I create them in harmony with a greater power: perhaps my higher self. 

I see this project being workshopped to help others that are feeling small and powerless reclaim and manifest some strength and direction in their life and communities. Stay tuned for more and if you have any suggestions or modalities for sharing and enhancing please DM me. I want to teach this method of creation to empower, heal, unite, and inspire.

Kathy Kissik incorporates her own photography with found  objects, collage and other materials to create works that challenge traditional  notions of perception.  Her works are  dreamscapes, whether evoking romance in the form of abundant blankets of  flowers or desire in the form of imaginary “factories” where Intangible (and sometimes elusive) notions of love, hope and peace can be made true.

Following on Kissik’s career-long interest in architecture and industry, her recent “factory” works play with the idea that anything can  be manufactured, or mass-produced, including our deepest desires.  In a similar spirit to Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) she uses her own photography as the basis for conceptualizing these  castles of industry.  Kissik refers to  these factories and “secular fetishes,” drawing into question what it is we  truly worship in our industrialized world.

Kathy Kissik received her BFA and Fifth Year Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University.  Her work has been exhibited throughout  the  U.S., Canada and Europe, and is included in numerous collections including the  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Wellington Management, the Federal Reserve Bank of  Boston and Progressive Corporation. Recent residencies include the Arcadia Artist Residency, Scottsdale, AZ ;the Banff Art Centre, Canada and the Slade School of Fine Art, London.  She has received numerous grants including  from the Stephen King Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Kissik has been represented by Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA since 1993 and Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL since 2012.