Art Kiosk presents - Kate Dodd - Incubator

Article Source: Curated by Lance M. Fung

Fung Collaboratives & Redwood City Improvement Association

Art Kiosk presents - Kate Dodd - Incubator
Curated by Lance M. Fung
9 March – 6 April 2019
Free public opening reception: Saturday, March 9th, 4 PM

Kate Dodd Incubator

About the installation

New Jersey and Berkeley based artist, Kate Dodd presents, Incubator, a site-specific visualization of the enrichment a book-filled environment creates. The new commission was inspired by the artist’s multiple research trips at the Redwood City Library and current events.

“Growing up today, in a time of broken civil discourse and heightened anxiety about the future, the worlds that books present and the creative thinking they stimulate are needed more than ever to support imagining beyond current circumstances.
The importance of books as a tool that women have used for centuries to develop their own voices, in spite of societal restrictions, resonates during Women’s History Month, the date for this installation.” Kate Dodd Incubator is composed of approximately 5,000 thousand books, some of which are stacked, creating book “towers” supported by a “foundation” of books that celebrate women’s roles in both fiction and non-fiction. The voids between the towers are filled with Kate’s delicate hand cut paper network of words and images culled from these books that, visually connects the knowledge held within this micro library. As this paper network intensifies in size and complexity, it appears to rise and expand into a buoyant mass of potential, akin to the layering of ideas that accumulate from immersing oneself in books.

This exhibition received special support from the Redwood City Library Director, Derek Wolfgram, and the Friends of the Library.

About the Artist
Kate Dodd received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1983 and her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1990. She currently lives in New Jersey with a bicoastal presence in the Bay Area in Berkeley where she grew up. She has exhibited her artwork nationally in museums, galleries, and colleges, and has been teaching art in public and private schools for 30 years. Kate has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Papermaking, the Connemara Conservancy, Cummington Community for the Arts, the Vermont Studio School and numerous schools in the tri-state area. In addition to site-specific installations, Kate has large-scale works commissioned by NJ Transit in Bayonne, Newark, South Amboy, and Hoboken. Kate's installations provide a heightened sensory experience for the viewer\occupant, while reexamining institutional and conventional notions of architecture and its relationship to the environment.

About the Art Kiosk
The Art Kiosk aims to bring thought provoking Installation Art to Redwood City and the Bay Area through ten, month long exhibitions, during 2019. Artists from the region and around the world have been invited to realize their ambitious site-specific artworks - often with the assistance of local volunteers, artists and vendors. The initiative was conceived and curated by Lance M. Fung. Donated project management of the exhibition series is provided by Fung Collaboratives.

The Redwood City Improvement Association funded the initiative for 2019 through their generous grant program. Redwood City acts as the logistical partner and it’s Civic Cultural Commission awarded the project a seed grant to support collateral educational projects for participating artists in Redwood City.

For more information, schedule of upcoming exhibitions, artist talks, and all other events please visit http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/projects/current/art-kiosk/artists/kate-dodd/description/

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