With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes inside vintage suitcases and trunks. The bucolic scenes harken to a place out of time and a romanticism of nature, with lush foliage and flowing streams. These relaxing scenarios consider personal land ownership, water rights and the need for stewardship and preservation of our green areas and water sources. These works bring nature back into ones every day life and the hurried pace of each person's travels can be slowed to a moment of respite for contemplation and reflection.
presented at VOLTA New York.
Brandywine River Museum of Art
Brandywine River Museum of Art
Brandywine River Museum of Art
MOCA Jacksonville, "Smoke and Mirrors"Exhibition
presented at ROCKELMANN& in Berlin, Germany
"Creating Realities" Exhibition, galerie OPEN, Berlin Germany
Presented at Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut USA.
Horticultural Society of New York, USA
In the series, Boundsticks, Kathleen Vance creates public sculptures, which are made up of sticks and branches collected from a local access points to nature. Culling materials from even the smallest stand of trees Vance creates large-scale works that are a reflection of the movement and shape of the trees themselves. Vance invites local participation in the collection process, with a "nature walk" looking for trees' litter fall (never cutting or breaking pieces from a tree). This process helps clean tree debris and opens a dialog about under appreciated natural resources.
A sculpture is constructed from the collection by sorting the sticks according to their shape, texture thickness, etc,. The sameness or differences are exaggerated through accumulated sticks being bound one by one into larger sections. The final form of the sculpture emerges as these components and drawn together, creating a sweeping movement that mimics the flow of the trees.
The materials for this installation were collected from the Grunewald forest, one of the largest green areas in city of Berlin, the units were each individually marked from their respective collection sites and installed at galerie OPEN in the urban center of Berlin.
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Prospect Park’s Midwood forest was selected as the origin site for this installation because of its importance as the oldest remaining native forest in Brooklyn. Harboring the last remaining eastern deciduous forest in Brooklyn, the park is unique example of an attainable balance between native nature and urban growth. With this installation, Vance amplifies components and themes specific to Midwood forest and juxtaposes them against the architecture of the gallery. She uses this unique gallery space, a converted historic carriage house that reminds one of farmland and a less developed Brooklyn, to engage the viewer with the experience of a space being overtaken by natural elements.
Installation from “Boundsticks” series as part of a solo exhibition at Art 101 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Selected branches and sticks were positioned and bound together to create this site-specific installation. Companion drawings from the collection sites were presented as part of the exhibition.
The branches and sticks collected to form this installation were gathered from natural forests in Maryland, and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. This installation was presented in Brookyln, NY
The materials for this installation were collected from the Grunewald forest, one of the largest green areas in city of Berlin, the units were each individually marked from their respective collection sites and installed at galerie OPEN in the urban center of Berlin.
The materials collected to form this installation were gathered solely from the fallen branches and sticks from the grounds of Govenor’s Island, NY
