Chautauqua School of Art Residency (7/25/21-8/28/21)
Chautauqua Visual Arts presents CVA School of Art Participants Exhibition that opens August 1 in Fowler-Kellogg Center. I’ve been here for one week so far and it has been intense and pretty awesome. WIFI has been spotty and food isn’t too great, but I love this place so far. Shown below is “Libera”, a pair of paintings with sound. You can play the glockenspiel on both pieces.
More of other participants works can be found here:
https://art.chq.org/exhibitions/2021-cva-school-of-art-participants-exhibition/
ESKFF Residency Open Studio 6/24/21 5-8pm
Mana Contemporary
ESKFF Residency
888 Newark Ave #218 Jersey City, NJ 07306
Open studio tonight from 5-8pm!
I’ve spent about 3 months in ESKFF residency from April 1 to today. Come see what I’ve done so far! The residency has been extended for another month so I am happy to keep making.
Award from Real Art Ways
YAY
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPBQOxslqHj/
2021 Real Art Awards Announced;
Six Artists Receive Cash Prize and
Solo Exhibition
Six artists have been selected for the 2021 Real Art Awards, presented by Real Art Ways of Hartford, Connecticut. The six will each receive $2,500 and a solo exhibition.
The Real Art Awardees are:
Kate Bae • New York, NY
Heather Heckel • Massapequa, NY
Merik Goma • New Haven, CT
Joe Bun Keo • Hartford, CT
Elizabeth Flood • Hamilton, NY
Deep Pool • Queens, NY
“We are especially intrigued by the range of work these artists are creating,” said Real Art Ways’ longtime Executive Director Will K. Wilkins. “We’re looking forward to what comes next!”
The Real Art Awards support artists at a critical career juncture. Along with the cash prize and solo exhibition, each artists will receive a publication with a critical essay.
Founded by artists in 1975, Real Art Ways has a record of supporting artists early in their careers. An example: Real Art Ways has presented a remarkable total of 42 MacArthur “Genius” grantees.
The Real Art Awards competition was open to artists in the six New England states, New York and New Jersey. Recipients were chosen from a competitive field of 350 entrants. Reflecting Real Art Ways’ mission to support artists, there was no charge to apply. The jury for the 2021 Real Art Awards was artist and writer Kameelah Janan Rasheed; Hasan Elahi, artist and Director of the School of Art at George Mason University; and Will K. Wilkins.
The Real Art Awards are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the New England Foundation for the Arts through the New England Arts Resilience Fund.
About Real Art Ways
Real Art Ways has a record of linking artists, innovation and community. Programs include visual arts, with exhibitions, public art projects, and artist presentations; cinema, with independent and international films seven days a week; music; performance; literary events; community and educational programming.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Neil Daigle Orians
Visual Arts Manager
Cell: 402.740.0250
Email: norians@realartways.org
Willie's Dream Opening May 20, 2021
Opening on Thursday 4:30p
May 20, 2021
Carriage house at the Fullerton Mansion
297 Grand St Newburgh, NY
Entrance at 400 Liberty St.
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Performance by Chihiro Shibayama
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Chihiro @chihiroplayspercussion and I met a year ago while we were working for the @uscensusbureau during the pandemic.
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At work, we weren't allowed to have cell phones, pencils, basically have nothing with us, because of the super strict privacy policy.
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We were so creative. During a quick break, Chihiro would tap on the desk and pressed keyboard to create beats, other coworkers joined by dancing and singing - then we would quickly go back to our desks.
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It was such an incredible experience in very weird circumstance. I wanted to create something with her as I always wanted to put music in my paintings, not knowing what will happen.
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This is the result of our first #collaboration. This is about a lost composer Willie Fullerton Jr., and his lover Percy Anderson who was a stage designer and painter. It’s about home, family, love, inclusion, struggle, and art.
Read more here:
https://www.newburghcommunitylandbank.org/2020-aiv-willies-dream
SPRING/BREAK Art Show Booth #1043
625 Madison Ave, New York, NY
March 4 - 9, 11am - 8pm
How to Care for the Succulent, presented by Women’s Cactus for the Arts, a collective comprised of four neurotic artmaking practices: Kirstin Lamb, Daisy Patton, Rachel Sydlowski, and Kate Bae; Our work speaks to ideas of beauty, sincerity and excess in the decorative arts without succumbing to the cynicism so prevalent in the contemporary art landscape.
See the whole layout of the booth in PDF with list of images HERE
SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC 2020
So busy prepping for the show! I made this little promo image for the SPRING/BREAK art show.
"How to Care for the Succulent," presented by Women's Cactus for the Arts, a collective comprised of four neurotic artists: myself, Kirstin Lamb (@kirstin.lamb), Daisy Patton (@daisy_patton), and Rachel Sydlowki (@rachelsyd). .
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As an immigrant, I have been misreading the word "caucus" as "cactus" for the past fifteen years. I always wondered what cactus has to do with a women's art group, and assumed it must be due to women's necessary similarity to a cactus: because woman had to be strong, resilient and prickly in order to defend and stand up for themselves in historically male dominant society.
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It was Kirstin Lamb who pointed out my misunderstanding during a conversation at the #soaringgardensresidency that we attended together. .oops lol
Kate's Newsletter 2020 #1 - Sneak Peak + SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC
Dear Friends,
How are you? I hope the new year is treating you well. I've been in Serlachius Residency in Finland since January 8, and gathering so many good memories. Lately I am having these moments of my heart and mind in sync and experiencing the joy that I am not used to - this really is something. I am sure many of you already know and felt this feeling but I really haven't. It always felt just out of reach for me.
Well, I think I am just beginning to shed my little shell. I am stunned that I found it in Finland out of all the place, and for that I am immensely grateful. I will be showing the work I made in this residency on Friday, Feb 21 from 4-6p -- I will be working on this series for a while I think.
My proposal also made into SPRING/BREAK Art Show in NYC, March 3-9 at 625 Madison Ave. Here is a little sneak peak:
Make Metallica Great Again, acrylic on linen, 55x46 cm, 2020
I started to combine printmaking + painting + kateness. So far I've calling them the prototypes, and curious how they would blossom.
Yes I do enjoy sauna and black metal but I am an indoor cat.
I’m normally afraid of children but this time it was fun! Finns are very funny.
Check out my interview with Twirl Project: https://www.twirlproject.com/kate-bae.html
Friends of the Artists will publish the vol 11 soon with 30 artists - you can order the book here.
I would love to run into you at the SPRING/BREAK art fair, I will be at the venue the most of times. Wish me luck! And be like a soft mochi, keep your heart all squishy and delish. I hope all is well with you.
Sincerely yours,
Kate Bae
Softmochi Collection 2020 in Finland
I arrived in Finland on January 8th for the residency at http://serlachius.fi/fi/. It is already time to leave, I’ve had unforgettable experience in Finland. I will be back as soon as I can. I think I have been the most productive here, to my surprise. Stay tuned for more news!
Acrylic, clothespins on found twine, 2020
Two Group Shows Opening 12/12
Dear Friends,
How are you? Hope you are having a great December. This year flew by so quickly, I cannot believe it. I am trying to lose weight gained from the Thanksgiving food but it has not been successful, yet. Anyway, I wanted to share the invitation for the amazing two group shows I am participating this Thursday:
(See below for images)
December 12th from 6-8pm, Walter Wickiser Gallery @210 11th Ave Suite 303 New York, NY 10001
December 12th from 5:30-8:30pm, Yard: Williamsburg @ 33 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222
My plan is to get to Walter Wickiser gallery first and then to the Yard:WIlliamsburg since I can stay there a little longer. I'd love to see you if you are around. I will be leaving for Finland in January 7th for two months residency (http://www.serlachius.fi/en/) so i hope to catch you before then. Have a wonderful holidays!!
Very best,
Kate Bae
Interview with Pretty Girls Making Cool Shit
Here is a cool blog for women artists who makes cool art and I had an honor of having an interview with them:
http://www.prettygirlsmakingcoolshit.com/2019/11/interview-with-kate-bae.html
DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA (Oct 20-31)
Dressing Trauma in Blobby Way, 2019
52 Critical Painters
I am so honored and happy that Kevin Smith featured my work in his blog as 52 critical painters. It is so refreshing to hear about my work in someone else’s voice! It is like, OMG someone actually get my work and what I am doing!! This is so cool. Thank you Kevin. Check out his stuff in his website along with my featurette:
Status Exhibition Opening 10/3/19
Now that I am done with Soaring Garden Artist Residency for September, which was really awesome, I am ready to feel the city again. Although what’s up with the weather? It is going to reach 90 degrees today! Then drops to 60, is this how autumn going to be? Anyway, I have an exhibition opening tomorrow:
Artists:
Mrinalini Aggarwal, Diego Anaya, Kate Bae, Yael Ben-Simon, Vincent Bezuidenhout, Ziyu He, Chemin Hsiao, Nazanin Noroozi, Masahito Ono, Htet San, Luisa Valderrama
The exhibition is on view throughout October on Thursdays from 1 pm to 6 pm and on Sundays from 2 pm to 6 pm, also by Appointment.
The opening is on Thursday, October 3rd, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.
Location: The First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York
12 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
https://www.facebook.com/events/561383371270459/?active_tab=about
"Status" aims to salutes and honors human expressions rather than speak to the question of individuals immigration status in their adopted temporary or permanent home.
Curated by Zahra Banyamerian, "Status" invites you to leave the dominant narratives about immigrants and immigration behind and embrace the artists' responses to the question of self, the socio-politics and/or poetics of the(ir) world. The exhibition features work by eleven artists, from the New York Foundation for the Art’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, who outline their status in artistic expression not their movement into the world.
Wave Hill Sunroom Project 7/21-9/2
How are you? Isn't time flying by or what! I would like to share this invitation for an upcoming exhibition "Possible, Between and Together" in Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill. Opening is on Sunday July 21, 2 to 4:30pm. If you cannot make it at the opening, I also have an artist talk on the following Sunday July 28 at 2pm. I would love to see you if you are around!
Info here:
https://www.wavehill.org/arts/artists/kate-bae/
Direction to get there:
https://www.wavehill.org/visit/directions/
I hope you are having a great summer -- catch me when you can, I will be around.
xoxo
Kate
12/1/2017
Greetings! Can you believe that it's December already?
I have a solo project opening tomorrow. It's pretty great space. Apparently people used to rave here illegally. I will be there around 6pm, check out the line ups for musicians and performances.
Here is the link:
https://www.aretevenue.com/
UNRESTRICTED:
A Visual Dialogue Among Trestle Residents
December 15, 2017
I am also participating 2017 Trestle Residency Exhibition, Unrestricted: A Visual Dialogue Among Trestle Residents, curated by Katherine Murdock. The opening reception will take place December 15th, 7-9 pm, at Trestle Gallery,. www.trestlegallery.org
Yes, that means my 6 month residency is soon to be over, ahhhhh
That's all for now!