Gallery News
I am excited to announce Robert Fontaine Gallery has a new location at 1106 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Fl. Time &Texture, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition opens to the public Saturday, June 8, from 7–10pm. The collection highlights a diversity of practices from early Pop Art to present day movements yet to be defined. A rare paper dress created in 1962 by Andy Warhol, multimedia works by Jenny Holzer, an early painting by James Rosenquist, a David Hockney drawing , and a K.Kissik mixed media painting are but a few of the key works on display. I will be attending the opening and would love to see you there.
Assemblage Point is my latest body comprised of mixed media assemblage paintings of factory/temples. These artworks are portals. 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 44 potential factory/cathedrals. I approach each one with focus and surrender to serendipity and the universal flow. Created 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. 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 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 Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Kissik has been represented by Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA since 1993 and Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL since 2012.