KATHRYN VAN DYKE
New Paintings
November 13 - January 18, 2003
BIOGRAPHY
PRESS RELEASE
San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, 2002
For
Kathryn Van Dyke, a poetic element in painting coalesces when several
different symbols or paint passages come together and create a new meaning.
Van Dyke’s abstract paintings encourage the viewer’s
interpretation and personal response. Her
interest lies in structure, texture, form, and color.
She seeks contradictory spaces and multiple perspectives.
In this new body of work, Van Dyke has used silver metallic paint
which causes a shifting of the surface according to the light and the
viewer's perspective. In her
painting she looks for a kind of disorientation, followed by a reorientation
into a place that we have never seen but that is familiar.