Kathryn Kert Green, #10, 2018, Colored Ink on navy blue paper, 30” x 20”.
The subject of Kathryn Kert Green’s drawings is constructing the subject. The lines relate to mimicking the world because certain arrangements of lines can suggest a space illusion of three dimensions, yet these things do not make sense in relation to objects in the world. Some hint at something we know but they are not them. They deal with the question of representation and are also object-like because they have their own internal structure. Their purpose is to be a construction of an idea of a thing rather than the thing itself.
Kathryn Kert Green, #19, 2018, Colored Ink on brown paper, 30” x 20”.
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Kathryn Kert Green, #2, 2018, Colored Ink on green paper, 30” x 20”.
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Kathryn Kert Green, #9, 2018, Colored Ink on navy blue paper, 30” x 20”.
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Drawing is about edges. There is an edge created when the utensil hits the paper. The pencil acts on the paper and the paper acts on the pencil. The edge is where pen and paper meet, the moment when definition can be made and each material becomes something else.
There is an edge of representation, the images can look like something at the same time that they are ambiguous. This is the abstraction of art making. These images can keep the act of perceiving, keep one going between abstraction and representation while never losing the edge of the pen to paper so there is the edge of idea and the edge of presence. One is never sure if the drawing is ended, so they leave open the space to perceive. There is the potential to ask what drawing is.
This is the edge of comprehension. The paper keeps a voice in drawing in relationship with its surface. One cannot tell if the image is one thing or another but one can tell that there is an edge.
Image Credit: Photo of Kathryn Kert Green in front of her work, “These Things” MFA Thesis Exhibition (solo), Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
Originally from Beverly Hills, California, Kathryn Kert Green received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1975 with a major in Russian and East European Studies and an M.A. in Education, with a specialty in art, from Stanford University in 1976. After graduation, Kert Green settled in Santa Monica, California, teaching art K-12. After marrying, Green raised three children and maintained her developing art practice throughout. In 2014, Kert Green began the MFA program at Otis College of Art and Design and in 2016 received her MFA in Fine Arts.
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