More press! Leaving the gallery with the show all hung, I may finally have time to sleep
My name is Kaitlin Archambault.
I am an Illustrator, creator and collector of images.
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February 2, 2012
February 1, 2012
Mystic I, Mystic II, Mystic X, Mystic V
Kaitlin Archambault
RC Prints
16”x20”
These photographs from my Mystics series are in the upcoming show at Six Summit Gallery.
Note on Mystics Series: This project references the writings of early female martyrs and mystics, such as Perpetua and Theresa of Avila. These are some of the earliest writings by females, and their authors faced violent death for the expression of their beliefs while they were revered, even sanctified, for the same expression at the face of their violent accusers. These figures simultaneously embody the sacred and profane. These images reflect the interaction of the female figure with her environment: she is simultaneously introspective and active as she manipulates her environment through her occult behavior. The resulting images both reflect the ethereal imagery of these writings and place the viewer at the precipice between the oppressive and exaltant onlooker, as the subject is both empowered and vulnerable.
“I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms.” -Theresa of Avila, Interior Castle
February 1, 2012
Press for "Exquisite" at Six Summit Gallery
The opening of the article is interesting, to say the least. Definitely wasn’t in the press release! Honored to be in the same article as Batman?
February 1, 2012
“Exquisite” at Six Summit Gallery
Below is the info for my upcoming show, in collaboration with the New Britain Museum of American Art. The opening reception is this Saturday! I have 11 [edit: 19] pieces in the show, [edit: with two exclusive pieces only up for the opening!] and it’s certainly a group of artists worth checking out! I helped curate, which means this (mostly photographic) show features fantastically grotesque photos of taxidermed animals by Mary Frey, new photo work by Deborah Dancy, and even Indian Miniatures in gouache on antique paper by Kathryn Myers. Other gems include the interactive sculpture of Melanie Carr & some gorgeous encaustic-treated photographs of the female nude by Heather Whitehouse. Be sure to catch it before it comes down in March.
Six Summit Gallery
Reception and Ongoing
6 Summit St. Ivoryton, CT 860-581-8332
“Exquisite”
February 3rd through March 10th
RECEPTION SATURDAY FEB 4 , 6:00- 11:00 PM.
Live Samba/Jazz/Folk
Door prizes include tickets to Ivoryton Playhouse, www.ivorytonplayhouse.comupcoming show “Always……Patsy Cline,” also original prints by included artists, and gifts from local businesses “Something Special,” “Aggies” Restaurant, The Ivoryton Tavern, www.ivorytontavern.com and more!
Admisson FREE
Six Summit Gallery, www.sixsummitgallery.com, “The Diverse Art Gallery,” (located across from the iconic Ivoryton Playhouse), and The New Britain Museum of American Art, www.nbmaa.org, host a mid-winter respite from the cold with a colorful and introspective exploration of form and fauna, complemented by interactive sculpture.
Distinguished Professors Mary Frey (MFA Yale University, Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, Museum of Modern Art NY permanent collection), Deborah Dancy (Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, Museum of Fine Art Boston permanent collection), Kathryn Myers (Connecticut Commission on Arts, Fulbright Senior Scholar, India), bring their award winning works to Six Summit Gallery for the first time. Acclaimed Docent Ann Hogdon-Cyr, and NBMAA staff artists Heather Whitehouse and Melanie Carr, complete a prestigious, elegant collection with gallery favorites Kaitlin Archambault and Sherrie Parenteau. Special guest artists include Angela Gram, Mitra Walter, and Dina Brodsky.
February 3rd through March 10th
RECEPTION SATURDAY FEB 4 , 6:00- 11:00 PM.
Live Samba/Jazz/Folk
Door prizes include tickets to Ivoryton Playhouse, www.ivorytonplayhouse.comupcoming show “Always……Patsy Cline,” also original prints by included artists, and gifts from local businesses “Something Special,” “Aggies” Restaurant, The Ivoryton Tavern, www.ivorytontavern.com and more!
Admisson FREE
Six Summit Gallery, www.sixsummitgallery.com, “The Diverse Art Gallery,” (located across from the iconic Ivoryton Playhouse), and The New Britain Museum of American Art, www.nbmaa.org, host a mid-winter respite from the cold with a colorful and introspective exploration of form and fauna, complemented by interactive sculpture.
Distinguished Professors Mary Frey (MFA Yale University, Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, Museum of Modern Art NY permanent collection), Deborah Dancy (Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, Museum of Fine Art Boston permanent collection), Kathryn Myers (Connecticut Commission on Arts, Fulbright Senior Scholar, India), bring their award winning works to Six Summit Gallery for the first time. Acclaimed Docent Ann Hogdon-Cyr, and NBMAA staff artists Heather Whitehouse and Melanie Carr, complete a prestigious, elegant collection with gallery favorites Kaitlin Archambault and Sherrie Parenteau. Special guest artists include Angela Gram, Mitra Walter, and Dina Brodsky.
January 15, 2012
Preview of coming attractions: mockups of the first two pages of an illustrated book I’m working on
©Kaitlin Archambault
December 13, 2011
“But how did you manage to live, if there is no story?”
“But how did you manage to live, if there is no story?”
“I have lived, as they say, entirely independently. I mean by myself. Do you know what it means to live by oneself?”
“How do you mean by yourself? Do you never see anyone at all?”
“Why no. I see all sorts of people, but I’m alone all the same.”
“Don’t you ever talk to anyone?”
“Strictly speaking, never.”
-Dostoyevsky, “White Nights”
I promise to stop bogging you down with Dostoyevsky and existentialism soon. Not too soon, as I do have an Illustration in the works for a quote from this very same story. And, speaking of stories, I’ve had one up my sleeve for some time now, and the Illustrations are in the works! Stay tuned, my dear reader…
December 12, 2011
I currently have two pieces up at Six Summit Gallery (sixsummitgallery.com). View them above, and be sure to check out the second reception for the show this Saturday, featuring folk band Shinbone Alley…what the folk are you waiting for?! (logistics to follow.)
November 28, 2011
"For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And meanwhile your soul is all the time craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!"
—
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from his short story “White Nights.”
I’ve pretty much been reading nothing but Russian literature lately, so pardon the brooding quote overload that is due to ensue.
November 27, 2011
Sketchbook contents ca. September 2011, from a dock on the Charles. Toying around with architectural sculpture that references & allows free movement of surrounding natural systems without obstructing the skyline.
November 12, 2011
"
What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
"—
The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams
Illustration by William Nicholson
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