Fisher College of Business

Kimono 6 (After the Rain)
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Oil on Canvas, 36" x 72"
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Since 1973, Katherine Kadish's work has been seen in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S., in Canada, England, and in Asia. Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum/Downtown, NYC; The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; The New York State Museum, the Library of Congress, the Dayton Art Institute, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and others. She has exhibited in galleries in New York, Chicago, London, and many other venues. Her work is included in the collections of the British Museum, The New York Public Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Pfizer, Inc., GTE Corp., and many other public, corporate and private collections.
She has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and others, as well as residency fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. She lives and works in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and in NYC.

Kimono, 6 (After Rain) is part of a long series of paintings and monotypes which are an evocation of both the multicultural and temporal layering which exists in our contemporary experience and thought. They draw from, and play on, Chinese calligraphy, the Japanese kimono shape (as in this painting), reference to the horizontal scroll format (in the monotypes), the color relationships of traditional Korean dress, or hanbok, as well as references to the late 19th century Fauve painters of France. Color relationships are primary in the paintings, while gesture dominates the monotypes.