Collection: Kathleen Greco

Bio

Kathleen Greco's artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide including the Museum of Art and Design New York, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., Hayward Gallery, England UK, Woodmere Art Museum, Pennsylvania, Elisabet Ney Museum, Texas, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany, and Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria. She has been featured in several publications including Artillery, Hyperallergic, Ginger, Artblog, and the Washington Post. Greco's sculpture was included in the collaborative Coral Reef Pod World's installation in the Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019, Venice, Italy.

Statement

Minimalist in concept, I am a visual artist informed by our living history exploring the human experience often exposing social undercurrents. My interdisciplinary studio practice comprises contemporary works on paper, photography, and sculpture. Applying knowledge from my industrial design and illustration background, I pair relationships of diverse materials and methodical techniques to conceptual themes in my artwork letting them dictate the investigation including, graphite, charcoal, paint, and flower petals. 

Not limiting myself to one medium, I select materials and methods that respond to the ideas I am exploring that guide the outcome of my body of work. I use graphite and charcoal as one of my mediums because carbon based materials are the basis of life and building blocks of humans. Choreographing relationships, conditions, and materials to engage and inform, similar to changes we experience in life, my work investigates themes of fragility, resilience, memory, and transition suggesting a bigger materiality lies underneath and within the surfaces.