Hyperallergic - ArtRx LA by Matt Stromberg October 14, 2014

October 14, 2014 by Kathleen Henderson in Reviews, shows

Kathleen Henderson
When: Opens Saturday, October 18, 2014 5–7pm
Where: Rosamund Felsen Gallery (Bergamot Station B4, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica)

Kathleen Henderson, “I Went There Looking For a Man Whom I Heard Lived By the Most Agreeable Occupation #1,” oil stick on paper (via rosamundfelsen.com)

Kathleen Henderson‘s oil-stick drawings crudely and colorfully convey a sense of contemporary alienation. Even when they are full of people, a sense of isolation prevails. Her latest body of work opening this Saturday at Rosamund Felsen “confronts head-on the financial sector and its place in a system of gross inequalities; the excess and waste of massively expensive and tragically useless trophy projects, or ‘white elephants’; and a profiteering pharmaceutical industry that is moving beyond marketing drugs to humans and setting their sights on neurotic and depressed domestic animals as well.”

"White Elephant"- a new show of drawings and sculptures at Rosamund Felsen gallery

October 11, 2014 by Kathleen Henderson in shows

Oscillating between fascination and apprehension, Kathleen Henderson illuminates our struggle to make sense of a senseless world with her expansive and ambitious exhibition of new drawings and sculptures at Rosamund Felsen Gallery. At once agitated and masterful, Henderson’s oil-stick line confronts head-on the financial sector and its place in a system of gross inequalities; the excess and waste of massively expensive and tragically useless trophy projects, or ‘white elephants’; and a profiteering pharmaceutical industry that is moving beyond marketing drugs to humans and setting their sights on neurotic and depressed domestic animals as well. These new drawings, replete with tension and vulnerability, weave figurative narratives that are at once anonymous and achingly familiar.

Inspired by Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us - a collection of essays imagining the beauty and brutality of an Earth without humans, Henderson goes further with a group of drawings depicting voracious scenery overwhelming isolated ghost figures awed and dwarfed in an apocalyptic environment.

Deeply reflective, heartbreakingly honest and fiercely critical, Henderson’s poignant works are attempts to reveal the attitudes of people, society, and the world at large - along with the humorous, lovely, and at times disturbing interactions that result.

Kathleen Henderson Drawings - Gallery Paule Anglim

May 15, 2012 by Kathleen Henderson in shows

Kathleen Henderson, "Head of Train.", 2011, Oil stick on paper, 27" x 22"

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new drawings by Kathleen Henderson.

The exhibition will feature recent oil stick works on paper that play within an orchestrated associative context. Implying a narrative voice recounting a story or point of view, the drawings describe thought processes that seem both absurdly personal and capable of weightier relevance. Henderson's method of drawing pays homage to the greater range of cartoon drawing, from the political satire to the comic book variety. Creating an experience more common in literature, she layers intimacy (psychology) with more profound themes (history.)

Kathleen Henderson is presenting other new work at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles May 26th - June 30th. The exhibition Notes on a Gathering Crowd, will feature a large group of new oil stick on paper drawings.

Kathleen Henderson lives and maintains her studio in Berkeley. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University and her MFA from Queens College, New York. In 2008 her solo exhibition "What if I could Draw a Bird That Could Change the World" was mounted at the Drawing Center in New York.

You may visit the gallery's web site for more information: www.gallerypauleanglim.com

Notes on a gathering Crowd-Rosamund Felsen Gallery

May 14, 2012 by Kathleen Henderson in shows

Notes on a gathering Crowd: Rosamund Felsen Gallery

2525 Michigan Ave, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

May 26th -June 30th -Opening Reception may 26th 5-7pm

Pure Paper - Rena Bransten Gallery

February 16, 2011 by Kathleen Henderson in shows

Long used as a material to write, paint and print upon, Pure Paper looks at the growing practice of artists using paper as a medium. The participating artists subvert the inherent dimensional qualities of the paper medium to create works that are at once both formidable and fragile.

Irresistible Empire June Show

July 02, 2010 by Kathleen Henderson in shows

Kathleen Henderson
Rosamund Felsen gallery press release
Irresistible Empire
June 5, 2010 — July 3, 2010
Reception: Saturday June 5th, 5-7 pm

Through a finely developed compositional acuity and a singular, fully-loaded line quality, Henderson manages to re-focus frames of human folly culled from the everyday and the eternal. Her anonymous, yet achingly-familiar characters cavort and cringe, sometimes through complex, cluttered landscapes, but more often in a theatrical void. Personal and political scandal, current and ancient wars, battles horrific and banal, all blend with a background of children’s fairy tales and ancient myths. Religious doctrine and ritual swirl menacingly around exquisite and uncanny likenesses. With these new oil stick drawings, figures are finding themselves shadowed by stains and smudges, visually abstracted and isolated even as they, “ begin to function as a narrative element in themselves,” as Henderson herself suggests. Slashes of color offer what may be redemption, or futile repentance. A small group of sculptures seems to have sprung fully formed from this new set of drawings. Henderson’s use of paper pulp, tar and tinted wax present an organic extension of her gestural narratives. The ship is listing perilously and the oily waters are rising and there is room in the lifeboats for only the rats. Irresistible Empire Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica june 5th- July 3rd OPP