Kathryn Spence
Kathryn Spence has spent years compiling, sorting and transforming culture\u2019s discards into sculptural objects that reveal a human determination on the topic of sufficiency.\xa0Fascinated with space, materiality, and objectness, she attends to materials conventionally wasted to produce installations and individual objects that act as a point of unhinging between the natural world and the controlled world.\n\nThe show being discussed is Kathryn Spence at P. Bibeau, September 9 - October 22, 2022.\n\nKathryn Spence\xa0(b. 1963) resides in the Bay Area and is featured in numerous public collections including SFMOMA, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, Mills College at Northeastern University, the Denver\xa0Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.\xa0\nMuseum solo exhibitions include the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, 2010, the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, 2001, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 1999.\xa0Spence is a recipient of the Anonymous was a Woman award, the Eureka Fellowship, an Artadia award, and the Fleischhacker Foundation award. Her\xa0'Pigeons' were recently on view at SFMOMA in \u2018Greater Than the Sum,\u2019 2021-22.\xa0Spence showed for 18 years at Stephen Wirtz in San Francisco.\n\nThe books mentioned in the interview are: Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature\u2019s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard\xa0 and E.O. Wilson, Half Earth.\n\n\n\nInstallation (close-up) P.Bibeau Gallery, 2019-22Socks, sweatpants, t-shirts, bed sheets, curtains, necktie, fabric scraps, found crocheted and knitted project parts, brown corduroy, yarn, cell phone ads, string, thread, mud, felt, wood, cardboard, pencil drawings, field guides, magazine scraps, stuffed animal fur, wax, plaster, plywood. Photo by Peter Sit.\n\n\n\n\n\u2018Untitled, (Great gray owl)\u2019 2019-22:: Gray socks, sweatpants, t-shirts, fabric scraps, stuffed animal fur, cardboard, bird field guide pages, wax, wood. Photo by Peter Sit.\n\n\n\n\n'Untitled, (Boreal owl),\u2019 2019-22 Found crocheted and knitting project parts, scraps of fabric, yarn, fur from stuffed animals, field guide, cell phone ads, cardboard, thread, string, mud. Photo by Peter Sit.