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Kate MacDowell

Kate MacDowell, “Clay Pigeons: explosion”
53”x17”x40”, hand built porcelain, 2007
13"x12"x3 ½", hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 2007
Kate MacDowell, “Nursemaid 1, 2 and 3”
22“x22“x5“, hand built porcelain, wooden wall pedestal, compact fluorescent lights, wiring, 2008
6" x 5 1/2" x 4 1/2", slip-cast and hand built porcelain, glaze, 2017
16"x24" or 20"x30", installation photographs of Last of his tribe slipcast toads, 2012
15"x9"x3", hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, 2009
4”x4 ½”x1”, hand built porcelain, glass eye, 2016
11"x9"x12", hand built porcelain, mixed media, 2010
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Kate MacDowell’s hand-built porcelain sculptures respond to environmental threats and their consequences, revealing the rifts and frictions between man and nature. Based out of Portland, Oregon, her work has been shown throughout the US and Europe at Scope Miami and New York, Seattle Art Fair, ArtAmsterdam, Art London, London Art Fair, Showoff Paris , Art Paris, Solo Project Basel, NEXT and Art Chicago fairs. She was an artist in residence at the Kohler Arts and Industry Program and has had work in group exhibits in the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Banksy’s Dismaland Bemusement Park, MOCA North Miami and Virginia, and the Akron, Crocker and Everson Art Museums.

Her work has been published in books and periodicals including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Hi-Fructose, American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Beautiful Bizarre, O.K. Periodicals (NL), Creative Review and Rooms (UK), and Hey! (Paris) among others. Her work was featured on the CD and single cover art for Erasure’s album, “Tomorrow’s World” and she can be seen sculpting in stop motion in the official audio video for a song on Miike Snow’s ‘III’ album.

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