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STATEMENT OF WORK
Kathleen King is a San Francisco Bay-Area based artist who makes assemblage and sculpture comprised of materials gathered from the waste stream. Influenced by art-historical sources from the Situationists to Arte Povera to African-American quilts, she weaves together a visual vocabulary that questions value and explores precarities encountered in environmental, social and personal contexts. Presenting an ethos of urban streets from construction sites to encampments, the work reflects states of co-existence, contingency and control as it agitates new meanings from things we discard. King challenges viewers to look at abandonment and lack as both material and spiritual conditions, as well as to think about satisfaction, which is linked to global climate catastrophe and consumption.
Kathleen King has been exhibiting her work in the Bay Area since 2000. She is a founding member of artist-run Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland, CA, where she has exhibited since 2006. King has also exhibited at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, CA; Your Mood Gallery in San Francisco, CA; GearBox Gallery, Mills College, and Pro Arts Commons in Oakland, CA; the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato, CA; and the City of Berkeley’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Building and Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, CA.
Kathleen King was born in Oakland, CA. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley, CA and maintains a studio in Oakland, CA., the unceded territory of xucyun (Huichin), the Chochenyo speaking Lisjan Ohlone people.