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. more info...
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Irresistible Empire June Show
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 more info...
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Art review: Kathleen Henderson at Rosamund Felsen
By Leah Ollman, LA Times, June 25, 2010
Every show of Kathleen Henderson’s feels like a privileged glimpse into the artist’s dark diary. Or is it our culture’s diary? Or humankind’s in general? Henderson’s drawings are tough, brutal even, sometimes funny, almost always absurd. They more info...
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ARTFORUM, critic’s picks
Author: Sharon Mizota
11.15.08-12.20.08 Rosamund Felsen Gallery Kathleen Henderson’s exhibition of drawings and sculptures, titled “I Shew You a Mystery,” evokes the peculiarly American concoction of hope and fear, faith and desperation, that filled many nineteenth-century Christian revivalist meetings. Yet her spare, casual oil-stick drawings and lumpy, scatological sculptures are resolutely more info...Posted in shows Comments closed
NY Times, The listings,Aug. 14th, 2009,H. Cotter
KATHLEEN HENDERSON: 'WHAT IF I COULD DRAW A BIRD THAT COULD CHANGE THE WORLD?' This beautiful and chilling show of oil stick drawings is like a fairy tale version of Abu Ghraib as drawn by Ben Shahn. Torture is in progress; Hitler tries his wings; men with bags for heads hunt animals but may be more info...
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