Video Interview With kathleen volp 2020
“The external forces of intensifying political instability have caused object-maker Kathleen Volp at Lincoln Studios to alter the internal tensions of her scrappy constructions. Her disturbing assemblages of utilitarian structures, geometric forms and toys are funkily hand-formed of wood, wax, polystyrene, clay, cast objects, foam and acrylic mediums.
“After George Floyd, there was this unbelievable vortex of energy that was coming up… like a tornado going through our social structure,” she tells us, adding, “You can’t stay at that point of unbalance between total chaos and total control, it’s a very fine line. Being able to find that state of stability and still joy and excitement, right on the edge, that’s what I hope people can pull away from my work — whether it’s political and social commentary, or whether it’s geometry, that there’s that sense that things are falling apart — or they’re really being held together as tight as they can so they don’t fall apart…” - WHAT’S AN OPEN STUDIOS FOR? WALTHAM MILLS’ VIRTUAL EVENT LEADS THE WAY, EXPANDS AUDIENCE, — December 21st, 2020 // Artscope Online, by Elizabeth Michelman
Studio Snapshot with Kathleen Volp 2020
art, sex and democracy video
I'm pleased to make available the video of the
ART SEX AND DEMOCRACY PANEL DISCUSSION
This spring, Adria Arch, Catherine Bertulli and Patti Brady mounted a pop-up exhibition Appetite As part of the four day exhibit, they held a panel discussion called Art, Sex, and Democracy, moderated by curator Mary Tinti and featuring Boston based artists Nayda A Cuevas, Elisa H. Hamilton, Silvia Chavez, Kledia Spiro, and myself - posing the question, "How do you, as a woman artist, respond to social and political issues in this new age of anxiety?"
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Online e-catelog from the exhibition The Melon Series, Griffin Museum of Photography
“Kathleen Volp in the “Melon Series”, uses the canteloupe as subject. She states that, “in the act of creating, the object transcends metaphor to enable personal transformation.” I subscribe to the poetry of Volp’s imagery because of metaphor and odd juxtaposition. The fragility of melon is counter weighted by it’s protective skin. The irony is that despite this armor that shields it’s core, the melon easily bruises.
- PAULA TOGNARELLI
executive director and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photogrophy”