Biography: Kate Kretz was born in Grove City, PA, and raised in upstate New York. She earned a Certificat de la Civilization Francaise from the Sorbonne in Paris, received her BFA in drawing and painting from Binghamton University, and her MFA in Painting from the University of Georgia. Her work has been appeared in over 30 International and 65 domestic newspapers including The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, ArtPapers, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami-Herald, and has been featured in Vanity Fair Italy, ELLE Japon, Australian Cosmopolitan, Surface Design, and Boca magazines.

Most recently, her painting "Blessed Art Thou" received news coverage on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and Fox networks, as well as News 24 in South Africa and Zee News in India. Her one-person exhibitions include The Frost Museum in Miami, Catholic University in Washington, D.C., The Fort Lauderdale Museum, and The Fiber Arts Foundation in Amherst, MA. Group exhibitions include Penn State University, Exit Art, Morris Museum of Art, Georgia State University, Telfair Museum, and the Museo Medici in Tuscany. She recently left a position as Associate Professor at Florida International University in Miami to paint full-time in her Burlington, NC, studio. She is represented in Florida by Chelsea Galleria in Miami, and her work may be seen at http://www.katekretz.com/.

Artist Statement: I was raised on a regimen of Catholicism and Technicolor films. This rich, lurid vocabulary, full of resplendent light, is used as a seductive device to pose questions about the more complex or convoluted aspects of the world surrounding me. I am interested in issues of class, power, manipulation and internally coherant systems of illusion, whether on a personal or global scale.

In all of my paintings, the light carries content. Using a renaissance technique of oil glazes, objects or areas are veiled in layers of darkness as a physical, as well as psychological, "pushing back." Illumination with various types of light bathes chosen parts of the painting in a certain aspect. My two dimensional pieces aim to create a specific kind of psychological space, while my work in three dimensions attempts to penetrate that space.

I create across media boundaries: all of the work tends to be obsessively made, in materials deemed most suitable to the content.

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Phone: (336) 266-9678

Web: http://www.katekretz.com/, http://www.katekretz.blogspot.com/

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