Kate Rannells
Darkness is not the absence of light, but full with unseen presence. Time is not fixed, but a subjective and personal experience. What we perceive is not Truth with a capital T, but our human perspective. The need to make sense creates dualistic order which breaks up the squishy continuum of existence into self/other, good/bad, black/white. This habit of making sense through rigid and dividing classifications is hard to break.
Art participates with existence and matter in physically engaged, nonlinear, nonhierarchical ways. It is a means beyond divisions. Making begins with an intervention into the state of matter, an interruption in its process. Matter is not inert, but active, with a language of its own. Processes like accretion, corrosion, erosion, compression, and expansion are all part of the lexicon of matter. Using salt, water, rust, weight, air, sound, and time, I speak the lyricism of matter as a metaphor for our relationship to ecology and nature.
I am an artist based in Oakland CA. Interested in both the making of art and the ideas behind the art made, I have a BA in Art Criticism, with a minor in Sculpture from Western Washington University, Fairhaven College. I continued this investigation in both the making and the theory of art in the Dual Degree program at San Francisco Art Institute, where I received an MFA in Studio Art in 2018, and an MA in Theory and History of Contemporary Art in 2019.
email: katearannells@gmail.com