KATHRYN NOBBE
My work is grounded in the history and process of drawing and painting. Over the past several decades, my artistic practices have expanded to include both 2D and 3D artwork, photography, digital imaging, video projection, installation-based work and inter-disciplinary collaboration in order to further articulate meaning and engage my viewers.
HyperLiminal:
Exploring In-Betweenness
The Artwork, 2017 to current Stylistically falling in the continuum between representation and abstraction, HyperLiminal began as a series of multimedia artworks in 2017 and continues to evolve currently. Under the lens of liminality (the barely perceptible intermediate state, phase, or condition that exists “In-between”), Nobbe further explores transdisciplinary concepts of human ecology and the metaphorical relationships of the human Body and planet Earth.
The inter-media installation by Kathryn Nobbe and Philip Blackburn, 2021 HyperLiminal: Exploring In-Betweenness, is an interrelated, multilayered, artistic collaboration between visual artist Kathryn Nobbe and sound-artist Philip Blackburn… more
PRESS: Mplsart.com https://www.mplsart.com/written/2021/12/hyperliminal-where-we-all-live-now
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/mIgWKMycjgc
flux (flŭks), fluxus, fluxing
1999 to Current
Latin (late 14c) 1:continuous moving on or passing by flow; 2: FLOOD a flux of words; 3: INFLUX;4: CHANGE, FLUCTUATION in a state of flux; Old French-flus ,"a flowing, rolling; bleeding".
The 1st and 2nd images (below) represent a group of related works from 1999-2002 that utilize abstracted motifs of interacting armored, figure-forms to explore adaptations and self-protective instincts of survival. While these early influences began with my own personal/individual experiences, the later work … more
Life is Flux. Everything is constantly changing and opposite things are identical, so that everything is and is not at the same time. -philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus (l. c. 500 BCE)
ATHENA’S ARMOR:
Meditations on Shielding
2016 - to current
The subject of my work involves the vulnerability of living, interacting organisms and their strategies to defend and survive.
This installation-based exhibition features 2 and 3-D mixed-media work combining computer/digital technology with traditional painting, drawing, and sculpture. The exhibition includes a large 3-D relief installation, ka-mə-ˌfläzh (camouflage) , composed of over 20,000 pom-pom/yarn balls… more
carapace
2012 - to current
A carapace is a protective, camouflaging, and/or decorative exoskeleton of animal groups such as crustaceans, arachnids, and turtles. This bony structure grows along with the creature, serving as a primary defense against enemies and other dangers in the innate quest for survival…. more
UNDERFLESH:
Exploring Fragility And Resilience
A Mixed-Media Installation In Six Interrelated Parts
1999-2014
“The source materials of the work come from actual interior and exterior images of her (Nobbe's) body—many from the surgeries, medical procedures, and tests performed over a two-year span from 1999-2000. The work is a meditation on the artist's encounter with deadly disease as well as her appreciation of the mysteries of life’s renewing forces and the inter-connectedness of all things…” more
Selected text from Art, Spirit, Community: New Work by Kathryn Nobbe Patricia Briggs, © 2003 Underflesh Catalogue/Essay.pdf
The exhibition, catalog, and all other related materials presented by Catherine G. Murphy Gallery and the Centers of Excellence at the College of St. Catherine
