Kathryn Dunlevie
Artist Statement
Since the beginning of quarantine, I have been working on new personae for my ongoing series “Mistick Krewes” (a series inspired by the city of New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Coast).
I have wandered through my archive of photographs and let my intuition take over. So far, I have completed five new works that reflect various aspects of this strange time: from governmental failures, natural disasters, and ecological tragedies, to social injustices and a yearning for healing.
Artist Bio
Kathryn Dunlevie is a photography-based artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. Cathy Kimball, former Executive Director of the San Jose ICA, writes of her work: “Through brilliant compositional detail and manipulation, she creates disconcerting, surprising, inexplicable spaces and scenarios.”
Intrigued by spatial and temporal inconsistencies and by each individual’s particular and shifting sense of what is real, Dunlevie fragments and reassembles images to create compositions both ambiguous and open-ended.
She has a B.A. in fine arts from Rice University, and studied film at the University of Paris and photography in Madrid. She lives in Palo Alto.
