Sean Perry In Conversation With Kate Breakey
on the Process, Craft and Life of Working in the Visual Arts
“I begin with a silver photographic image, a kind of evidence. Then I
paint on this in many transparent layers of oil paint and pencil. If I
am lucky, the media combine and become enmeshed, a curious union of what
was real with my own exaggerations and embellishments, so I can show
how beautiful it all is—the light, the form, the texture, and
color—because I am a sensualist, and this is my deepest pleasure, my
lovely addiction.” —Kate Breakey
Austin, Texas: For our ongoing In Conversation series, The Picture Review team is thrilled to host the singular and exceptional Kate Breakey, for what is sure to be a most inspired evening. We will be discussing the committed work of being an artist, and the remarkable career she has built doing so. Ms. Breakey is internationally recognized for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs, including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers, animals, and insects. Since 1980, her work has appeared in more than ninety, one-person exhibitions and more than fifty group exhibitions in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, China, New Zealand, and France.
A native of South Australia who has also lived and worked in Texas, Ms. Breakey now resides and photographs in the desert outside Tucson. Her work has been beautifully represented in five books, including Birds/Flowers published in 2002 by Eastland Books and Slowlight published by Etherton Gallery in 2012. She has produced three substantial monographs in collaboration with The Wittliff Collections and the University of Texas Press, beginning with Small Deaths (2001), followed by Painted Light (2010) a career retrospective that encompasses a quarter century of prolific image making, and Las Sombras/The Shadows (2012) which is comprised of many hundreds of images, from a bald eagle to tiny moths and flies. This series is a continuation of her lifetime investigation of the natural world which in her own words is "brimming with fantastic mysterious beautiful things."
Her latest landscape work – Out of Darkness was showcased in a recent exhibition with photographer Keith Carter entitled Without and Within, these deeply felt landscapes becoming a metaphor for dramatic personal events that have recently changed her life. Ms. Breakey's work is held in many public institutions including the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos, the Austin Museum of Art, the Australian National Gallery in Canberra and the Osaka Museum in Osaka, Japan. This summer she will return to the prominent Santa Fe Workshops to lead a special course in The Hand-Colored Photographic Print, July 12th – July 17, 2015. – Sean Perry
A native of South Australia who has also lived and worked in Texas, Ms. Breakey now resides and photographs in the desert outside Tucson. Her work has been beautifully represented in five books, including Birds/Flowers published in 2002 by Eastland Books and Slowlight published by Etherton Gallery in 2012. She has produced three substantial monographs in collaboration with The Wittliff Collections and the University of Texas Press, beginning with Small Deaths (2001), followed by Painted Light (2010) a career retrospective that encompasses a quarter century of prolific image making, and Las Sombras/The Shadows (2012) which is comprised of many hundreds of images, from a bald eagle to tiny moths and flies. This series is a continuation of her lifetime investigation of the natural world which in her own words is "brimming with fantastic mysterious beautiful things."
Her latest landscape work – Out of Darkness was showcased in a recent exhibition with photographer Keith Carter entitled Without and Within, these deeply felt landscapes becoming a metaphor for dramatic personal events that have recently changed her life. Ms. Breakey's work is held in many public institutions including the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos, the Austin Museum of Art, the Australian National Gallery in Canberra and the Osaka Museum in Osaka, Japan. This summer she will return to the prominent Santa Fe Workshops to lead a special course in The Hand-Colored Photographic Print, July 12th – July 17, 2015. – Sean Perry
Thursday, February 19, 2015
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (CST)
Austin Community College
11928 Stonehollow Drive Austin
Photography Dept. Building 3000 | RM3112
Austin, TX 78758
11928 Stonehollow Drive Austin
Photography Dept. Building 3000 | RM3112
Austin, TX 78758
In Conversation: A series of Talks on the Process, Craft and Life of Working in the Visual Arts with Sean Perry
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