Kate Clements: Artificial Kingdom

Published by Ken Saunders Gallery 2041 West Carroll Avenue, Suite C-320 Chicago, IL 60612 www.kensaundersgallery.com © 2022 Ken Saunders Gallery All Rights Reserved Catalogue Design by Amy Stieve Luksa

Published on the occasion of the exhibition

Featuring new works by Kate Clements September 9 - October 31, 2022

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VERDANT (detail) kiln glass on painted panel, hardware 100 x 83 x .25 inches 2022

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Kate Clements creates works in glass that constantly push the boundaries of the use of glass. The artist’s sculptural works and installations are created at a scale rarely considered in Studio Glass. After creating a body of work that explored the fragility of memories in very large installations of kiln fused glass the artist has decided with this latest body of work to explore design traditions that have defined and reflected our fraught relationship with Nature. The work continues to have a nostalgic quality and a historicism that describes a world that is gone, and an aesthetic nearly forgotten.

Clements is first and foremost a conceptual artist. Although organic in quality, the artist’s work is not intuitively created but are the result of a considered process that reveals itself slowly. Many of the artist’s projects are based on small, modular objects that are lent a monumental quality by means of repetition or embellishment. The artist is an original thinker, and this is shown in the quality and diversity of the artist’s projects.

Kate Clements works in a decorative medium, Studio Glass, but creates works steeped in the rigors of conceptualism. Ken Saunders Gallery is proud to present our 2nd solo exhibition of new works by the artist.

Ken Saunders, 2022

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VERDANT kiln glass on painted panel, hardware 100 x 83 x .25 inches 2022

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VERDANT (detail) kiln glass on painted panel, hardware 100 x 83 x .25 inches 2022

SOLARIUM kiln glass on painted panel, hardware 60 x 80 x .25 inches 2022

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SOLARIUM

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kiln glass on painted panel, hardware 60 x 80 x .25 inches 2022

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FORGOT TEN FLOWERS

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kiln glass on panel, hardware 56 x 44 x .25 inches 2022

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FORGOT TEN FLOWERS kiln glass on panel, hardware 56 x 44 x .25 inches 2022

FLOWER CLOUD kiln glass, hardware 60 x 54 x .25 inches 2020

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FLOWER CLOUD kiln glass, hardware 60 x 54 x .25 inches 2020

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FALSE PRINCIPLES kiln glass, paint, hardware 101 x 90 x .25 inches 2022

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FALSE PRINCIPLES kiln glass, paint, hardware 101 x 90 x .25 inches 2022

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FALSE PRINCIPLES

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kiln glass, paint, hardware 101 x 90 x .25 inches 2022

E D U C AT I O N 2015 2011

MFA: Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA BFA: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

S O LO E X H I B I T I O N S 2022 2018 2016 2015

Artificial Kingdom, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL. SHADOWLANDS, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL A Long Goodbye, Wind Challenge Exhibition Series, Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Fa|eint, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO FROUFROU: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA Charade, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Unnatural Beauty, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 2021 2020 2019

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Through A Glass, Darkly, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE Heartland 4, Belger Crane Yard Gallery, Kansas City, MO ReAppraising a Pandemic, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL Glass in the Expanded Field, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO Verdant, Ohio University, Digital Show What’s in Yr Queue?, Straightline Studio, Snowmass Village, CO American Craft Council Conference, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA The Uncommon Apron, Peters Valley Gallery, Peters Valley School of Craft, Laytons, NJ curated by Gail Brown GAS Members Exhibition, Morean Arts Center, St Petersburg, FL Her Voice, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL Bloom, Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA The Art of Collecting, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier Festival Hall, Chicago, IL Super Gigantic, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL AiR Retrospect, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway Head Gear, Houston Center of Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX Idle Hands, Pilot Projects, Philadelphia, PA Emerge/Evolve, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA GAS Members Exhibition, Glass Wheel Studio, Norfolk, VA BECon: Transformations, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR New Work: The Urban Glass MFA Exhibition, Agnes Varis Art Center Brooklyn, New York Original Voices, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL Emerge 2016, International Juried Kiln Glass Exhibition, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR DCCA MFA Biennial, Delaware Center of Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE Intimate Riot, Kansas City Central Library, Kansas City, MO No Meat in Team, Crane Arts Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA Emerge/Evolve, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA

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Beware of False Prophets, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Emerge/Evolve: Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA Emerge/Evolve: Bullseye Glass Resource Center Bay Area, Emeryville, CA Fresh Batch, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Emerge 2014 : International Juried Kiln Glass Exhibition, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR River Market Regional Exhibition, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO The I, The Cover, The Vice & Their Home, Paragraph & Project Space Gallery, Kansas City, MO Money, Leedy-Volkus Gallery, Kansas City, MO Secret Salon, Spyn Gallery, Kansas City, MO

AWA R D S & H O N O R S 2019 2016

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GAS Members Exhibition, Honorable Mention Award Bullseye Glass Emerge 2016, Gold Academic Award Selected Artist for S12 Glass Studio Residency, Bergen, Norway Pilchuck Glass School Full Scholarship, top scholarship recipient Nominee, Saxe Emerging Artist Award, Glass Art Society, Norfolk, VA Nominee, Borowsky Prize in Glass Arts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Wind Challenge Exhibition Series 2016 Selected Artist + stipend Nominee, Borowsky Prize in Glass Arts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA GAS International Student Online Exhibition, Second Place Bullseye Glass Emerge 2014, Academic Award Dean’s Grant Recipient, Tyler School of Art University Fellowship, Tyler School of Art

CO L L E C T I O N S

Private Collection, Evanston, IL Private Collection, Miami, FL Private Collection, Akron, OH Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Kirkwood Community College Collection, Cedar Rapids, IA Perry Family Collection, Norfolk, VA Private Collection, Portland, OR

S E L E C T E D P U B L I C AT I O N S 2022 2019 2018 2017 2016

Featured Artist “New Glass Review 42”, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Her Voice, Show Catalogue with introduction by Ken Saunders, Ken Saunders Gallery SHADOWLANDS, Show Catalogue with introduction by Ken Saunders, Ken Saunders Gallery Brian Libby, “Transparent Style”, American Craft Magazine, October/November Issue, 2017 Featured Artist “New Glass Review 38”, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Featured Artist “New Glass Review 37”, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Bullseye Glass Co. E-merge/Evolve 2016: A Showcase of Rising and Evolving Talents in Kiln-Glass. pg 18-19 31

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