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inLINE with galleryELL

Kate — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:18:08 +0000

A few of my Vermont drawings are featured in galleryELL’s latest virtual exhibition. Check it!

John Ros writes: “Kate McGraw brings us to another ritual. One less about precision and more of energy and endurance. The impact is a visible transcription of actual emotion: heat, love, desire. These energy works bring line in the form of break and restart — a persistence that comes form truly knowing something. “My drawing process is the investigation of time-based, energetic and physical space between darkness and light. My drawings are the translations of my experience within this duality — honoring spectral light while recognizing its periodic moments of absence.” Kate’s ability to see the “in-between” gains the trust of the viewer and enables them to navigate these timescapes with a new sense of knowing.”

Brooklyn College OPEN STUDIOS

Kate — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:18:25 +0000

Hello again and happy spring! My studio will be open this Friday and Saturday. There will be rainbows and polka.

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Indefinite Whole at Brooklyn College

Kate — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:22:08 +0000

February, 25 - May 24, 2012

Reception: Tuesday, March 6, 5 - 7 pm

Brooklyn College Student Center
Maroney-Leddy & Alumni Lounges, 4th Floor
East 27 Street and Campus Road (map)
Brooklyn, NY 11210

Artists:
Jeannine Bardo
Anna Hoberman
Samuel Jablon
Andrew Kennedy
Mitch Patrick
John Ros
Nick Stolle
Cecilia Whittaker-Doe

Curated by Kate McGraw & John Ros

Indefinite Whole is an exhibition that explores ideas of collective, physical, virtual, fragmented and hidden places within the present space/time continuum. This investigation through the lens of eight artists asks how its particulars define their lives and practices. Whatever the muse-from the natural world, to politics, to found objects and formal abstractions hidden or revealed-each artist takes on the task to interpret our contemporary world and work toward the continuous unraveling of a shared journey.

The artists included in this exhibit are currently working toward their Master of Fine Arts degree from Brooklyn College’s School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts. The MFA in Visual Arts draws artists from New York and beyond to work in a closely connected studio-intensive community. Indefinite Whole is an introduction of the work made by these dedicated artists and serves as a glimpse into some of the voices that will shape the upcoming MFA Thesis Exhibition scheduled for the spring of 2013.

Roof Picnic Skies, New York

Kate — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:03:57 +0000

I’m very happy to announce the release of Roof Picnic Skies, New York by my friend and poet, Jill Leininger. The cover of this lovely chapbook features a drawing from one of my earlier series of ’scapes.

Jill’s poems are a delight! You can get your copy here from Dancing Girl Press.

Double Spaced: an Exhibition in Pairs

Kate — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:08:04 +0000

I’m nearly finished with a wall-drawing that I’ve been working on for the past week! My newest drawing installation, Line of Sight, will be unveiled during the opening of Double Spaced: An Exhibition in Pairs at Brooklyn College. I am very pleased to be a part of this special exhibition welcoming Dean Maria Ann Conelli to her new appointment as Dean of Visual, Media and Performing Arts.

Please join us for the opening on Monday, December 12 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm. (map)

Cluster Bomb at Bowery Poetry Club

Kate — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:15:40 +0000

Hello all! I am participating in this exciting exhibition. See you there!

Cluster Bomb is a group exhibit at the Bowery Poetry Club. It will be displayed on the Elizabeth Murray Art Wall. The show will open Friday December 9th, and close January 1st 2012.

The work in this exhibit isn’t necessarily explosive. It is about creating a space packed with clashing, harmonizing, and buzzing energy that overwhelms and intrigues . The amount and diversity amongst the artists is wide and varied. If you can find a common theme please let us know. The goal is to pop you out/into/through some void or “artistic experience.”

All the work is priced under 500.00 and above .50. So come out support the artists, and the amazing Bowery Poetry Club.

Opening: Friday, December 9th from 5 - 7 pm.

Location: 308 Bowery New York, 10012

Participating Artists:

Samuel Jablon
Amna Asghar
Geoffrey Owen Miller
Aidan Sofia Earle
Anthony Giannini
Boris Torres
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
Isak Berbic
Mike Berlant
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge
Siebren Versteeg
Benjamin Edmiston
Anna Hoberman
Heather Morgan
Erik Kuhl
Mitch Patrick
john ros
Anthony Randell
Mariko Spigner
Peter Froslie
Fran O’Neil
Erika Fortner
Gocha Tsinadze
Jeff Frederick
Kate McGraw
Bob Fundis
Rayna Savrosa

Free Association

Kate — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:00:52 +0000

Please join me and my fellow Brooklyn College artists for an afternoon of experimental education and performance.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

1:00pm - 5:00pm

Lutheran Church of the Messiah, 129 Russell Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 (map)

(Greenpoint, Subway, G to Nassau St)

Free Association

On Saturday the 10th of December, come to Greenpoint and experience ground breaking experiments in education. It’s all happening in a Church basement. So, come, commune with God, and shoot a Nerf bow and arrow at Hulk Hogan! While you let go of who you are, complain to eager ears, and relax with a cup of tea, or make a toast to God.

This is the final collaborative project of the semester between PIMA (an interactive interdisciplinary MFA) and the Studio Art MFA at Brooklyn College. This collaborative effort creates experimental art school with public interaction in mind. So, appear, arrive, attain, be accessible, be at disposal, be convenient, be handy, be obtainable, be ready, blow in, bob up, breeze in, check in, draw near, drop in, enter, fall by, fall in, get in, make it, make the scene, materialize, move toward, pop in, pop up, punch in, ring in, roll in, show up, sign in, spring in, turn out, turn up, or wind up at this incredible eye opening event.

Artists

Mariangelica Ayala

Jeannine Bardo

Bryon Carr

Nicole Donnely

Alexander Doolan

Alice Fiedler

Lila Freedland

Anna Hoberman

Samuel Jablon

Andrew Kennedy

McKenna Kerrigan

Kate McGraw

Mitch Patrick

Anthony Randell

John Ros

Nick Stolle

Gocha Tsinadze

Celia Whittaker-Doe

Rachel Wohlander

Jeff Wood

Brooklyn College Open Studios

Kate — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:19:36 +0000

I moved to Brooklyn to get my MFA. Come check out my studio if you’re in town…

Timeline at Vermont Studio Center

Kate — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:35:41 +0000

Hello! While I continue to work on my new website (coming soon!) I thought it would be nice to post some images of Timeline is its final stages. Timeline was a wall-drawing piece that I completed over the course of one year as a staff artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center from January 2010 to January 2011. (click on the images to get a closer look.)

Drawing Installation at Vermont Studio Center

Kate — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:19:34 +0000

I just stitched together some photographs of my studio at Vermont Studio Center. I’ve been working on a wall-drawing installation here in Vermont since January 2010. I spent most of January conditioning the walls with a complete drywall refurbishment and fresh coat of paint in order to create a suitable surface for the drawing. I have about 30% of my wall-drawing complete, though I hesitate to think in quantitative terms (like “complete” and “30%”) since this has been such a process based installation for me. The plan is to draw, starting at the ceiling, and continuing until the the drawing reaches the floor, but plans change and I’m open to the drawing taking on a life of it’s own.

I’m on residency as a staff-artist at Vermont Studio Center until the end of December 2010.