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| Kate Breakey, Nest 9, Hand-embroidered archival pigment print on silk, 24 x 24 inches, Edition of 20, $2,290 Framed |
Most of the works in Tree Stories, photo-eye Gallery's current exhibition of works by Kate Breakey, are images of the same subject: trees. However, the exhibition actually features photographic works from three different bodies of Breakey’s work, each of which explores a different photographic process or technique. Her shimmering gold orotones feel extremely different than the smoky, soft aesthetic of her hand-colored archival pigment prints, which are divergent in aesthetic from her hand-embroidered prints on silk. Across the board, it not just consistency of subject matter, but the exploration of materials and open approach to process that truly ties each work in the show to all the others.
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| Kate Breakey, Nest 35, Hand-embroidered archival pigment print on silk 20 x 20 inches, Edition of 20, $2,030 Framed |
These works are intimate and visually gentle, but hold a strong presence in the gallery space. Breakey’s choice to make the nest images in a larger-than-life scale is impactful. This offers audiences a chance to inspect details in each nest, and highlights how each structure is unique to the needs and instincts of the creature that built it. These images aren’t pictures of trees like the works in the rest of the show, but rather, images of tree materials put to utilitarian use. The ingenuity and attention to detail in Breakey’s exploration of process acts as a bridge between each of the nests and the wider exhibition.
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| Kate Breakey, Nest 32, Hand-embroidered archival pigment print on silk, 24 x 24 inches, Edition of 20, $2,290 Framed |
Tree Stories is on view at photo-eye Gallery through February 22nd, 2020
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kate Breakey was born in Adelaide, Australia and received her MFA in photography from the University of Texas, Austin in 1991. Breakey is known for working in a multitude of photographic techniques, including large-scale, hand-colored archival pigment prints, gold-leaf backed orotones printed on glass, and hand-embroidered images printed on silk. Since 1981 her work has appeared in more than 75 solo exhibitions and more than 50 group exhibitions in the United States, France, Japan, Australia, China, and New Zealand.
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For more information, and to purchase artworks, please contact photo-eye Gallery Staff at:
For more information, and to purchase artworks, please contact photo-eye Gallery Staff at:
(505) 988-5152 x 202 or gallery@photoeye.com
Tree Stories: Kate Breakey
On view through February 22, 2020