Sunday, May 27, 2012

ROOT HILL CAFE'S FEATURED ARTIST: KATHERINE GRESSEL REARVIEWS: BROOKLYN


Katherine Gressel's scenes from moving vehicles aim to show the tension between the safe, stable inside of a vehicle and the fluctuating, transient, and sometimes unrecognizable landscapes seen over the course of one ride. The work in Rearviews: Brooklyn investigates issues of development, nostalgia, and branding in her current home of Brooklyn (and in particular the changing neighborhoods of Park Slope/Gowanus and Downtown Brooklyn/DUMBO). Katherine juxtaposes views of contemporary transitional public spaces seen from car windows with images of new buildings in progress and their visual advertising campaigns. She appropriates historic Brooklyn images (including old Brooklyn real estate ads), to show both contrasts and connections between past, present, and future perceptions of Brooklyn. 

Katherine is an artist, writer and curator based in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In addition to painting the Root Hill Cafe mural in 2009, Katherine has exhibited her artwork at such venues as the Brooklyn Arts Council gallery, Brooklyn Public Library, City Without Walls in Newark, and the 2010 FIGMENT season-long sculpture garden on Governors Island. She was a 2008 Abbey Mural Fellow at the National Academy of Fine Arts and a 2009 CEC ArtsLink travel grantee to do public art projects in Russia. She currently serves as Programs Manager at Smack Mellon gallery, and is also currently curating exhibits at Brooklyn’s Old Stone House and FIGMENT 2012 on Governors Island. Katherine also works as a live event painter, capturing scenes of weddings, fundraisers and other private parties. 
Please visit www.katherinegressel.com for more information.
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