Kathy King
American Masters Exhibit

Kathy King Artist Bio

Kathy's narrative vessels, tiled furniture and printmaking, either presented individually, or combined in installation, present narratives from a feminist point of view. Her ultimate objective is to translate her own experience, specifically as a contemporary woman, in relation to social culture dealing with such issues as sexual orientation, reproduction and issues of the body and gender. Her imagery, reminiscent of an underground comic book style, uses satirical humor, irony and sarcasm to map her journey from pubescence to menopause.

Kathy's exhibition record includes solo shows at Erie Museum of Art, Erie, PA, McMaster Gallery - University of South Carolina, Columbus, SC, University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA and Spacelab in Cleveland, OH. Group exhibitions include SOFA, Chicago, IL (Ferrin Gallery and Santa Fe Clay Gallery), World Ceramic Exposition, Yoju, Korea, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD and Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, GA. She was featured as both an Emerging Artist in 1999 and a Demonstrator in 2002 at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conferences.  

Kathy King Artist Statement

In my work I use ceramic vessels, tiled furniture and printmaking, either separately or combined in installations, which present narratives from a woman's point of view. My ultimate objective is to translate my own personal experience in relation to my culture, through narrative imagery on the utilitarian ceramic form. This presentation of personal narrative on ceramics through satirical humor, irony and sarcasm allows me to both celebrate and poke fun at my gender as well as myself.  

Kathy King Resume

Education

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, MFA, 1998

Connecticut College, New London, CT, BA in Studio Art, 1990

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1988-1989

Selected recent solo exhibitions

Roswell Art Center West Gallery, Roswell, GA, We Need to Talk, 2007

University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA, We Have to Talk, 2007

McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbus, SC, To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce, 2006

Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, Nursery of My Indecision, 2002

Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Kathy King: New Work, 2002

SPACELAB Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, Rec Room of My Discontent, 1999


Selected recent group exhibitions

2008

Mudfire Gallery, Decatur, GA American Masters

Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 7 Deadly Sins

Society of Contemporary Craft (SCC), Pittsburgh, PA Voices Invitational - NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA

Gallerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA Tacitly Tactile - NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA

Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Object(Ions) - NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA

Three Rivers Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Greatest Show on Earth - NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA

Artist Image Resource (AIR), Pittsburgh, PA Print and Clay Show - NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM La Mesa - NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA

2007

Dowstudio, Deer Isle, ME
Annual Clay National Invitational

Arrowmont Gallery, Gatlinburg, TN
Arrowmont School of Crafts Summer Faculty Exhibition

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Tea

Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
Contemporary Ceramics - A Dairy Barn Invitational

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
La Mesa - NCECA, Louisville, KY

2006

Sculptural Objects and Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
Santa Fe Clay Gallery Artists

Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Intimate Rituals of Daily Life

Xen Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Likeness/The Human Form in Clay

Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
Ethos: Craft and Social Conscience

Dowstudio Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Invited Artists

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
La Mesa - NCECA - Portland, OR

Macon Cultural Center Gallery, Macon, GA
Georgia Potters Then and Now

Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Teapot Festival

Mudfire Gallery, Decatur, GA
Teapot-A-Go-Go

Roswell West Gallery, Roswell, GA
Ceramic Masters

2005

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
American Masters

Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine,
Haystack Faculty Exhibition

Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California
Pots: Objects of Virtue

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Box Show

Lucinda Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Body Language: the Figure in Clay

Montage Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Terra Sutra II

Santa Fe Clay Presents, Baltimore, MD
La Mesa

Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
The Contemporary Cup

Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Stories and Visions of Nature in Clay

2004

Elevation Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Atomic Pop

Center for the Living Arts: space 301, Mobile, AL
Clay!

West Fine Arts Gallery, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
Stories: Ceramic Narrative, Symbol and Text

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Natural Selection

Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
The Nature and Craft of the Penland Experience

2003

International Exposition of Sculptural Objects and Functional Arts (SOFA), Chicago, IL
NCECA Emerging Artists 1996-2000 New Ceramic Art

Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Not Teapots

Rialto, Atlanta, GA
Paperworks

Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Women in Clay

The 1912 Gallery, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA
Narratives in Clay: Kathy King and Mark Burleson

Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
Subject-Me-Object: Autobiographical Ceramic Sculpture

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
CLAY

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Summer Faculty

Hiestand Galleries Miami University, Miami, OH
Craftsummer Faculty Exhibition

2002

University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA,
Biological Mutiny

Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Conversation Pieces, Text in Contemporary Craft

Blue Spiral I, Asheville, NC
Hot Ice III: Teapots and Pitchers

Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
Pots Presented

Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
No Agenda but Their Own - A Decade of Work by Women Artists

Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Plates and Platters

Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Terra Sutra: Erotic Ceramics

2001

World Ceramic Exposition, Yoju, Korea,
Taking Measure

IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art, Indiana University, Gary, IN
Strictly Dysfunctional

Calvin College Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Disclosures

Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
National Clay Invitational

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
George Bowes, Kathy King, Wesley Anderegg

2000

Georgia State University School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Invitational Ceramics Alumni Exhibition

Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA,
Emerging Artists

Mobilia Gallery, Boston, MA
SOFA Exposition - Mobilia Gallery

Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA,
SOFA Exposition - Ferrin Gallery

Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Bistro 1615 Invitational

Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Cups, Cupboards and Cabinets

Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC,
Politiclay

Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object

Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
Celestial Seasonings Presents A Loose Interpretation V

Esmay Fine Art, Rochester, NY
Porcelain 2000

Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Summer Faculty Exhibit


PINCH Gallery, Northampton, MA
21st Anniversary Teapot Invitational