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Holding Hands With Homo Erectus, Morphologically Achuelean Hand Axe, 2015, Chicago, Der Grief Guest Room, with Pauline Batista, selected by Darius Himes, head of the Photographs department at Christie’s and Hasselblad Master, Lecturer and Photographer Ali Rajabi, Der Greif Online, December 20, 2022
“The ‘dead’ void may become ‘live’, or ‘magnetic’.”
“I spend a lot of time in airplanes, and this photograph captures something elusive and true about the experience. It has the informality of a snapshot and the formality of portraiture, and it reminds me how accurate a description it is to say that you went somewhere far away in a thermos.”
“Imagination manifests transformation.”
“In these photographs, I feel the energy of true engagement, and see, too, my own experiences reflected back. And I hear them. They are roaring back like silence.”
“Kate Joyce’s typologies are some of my favorite photographs. She took some ninety thousand pictures over roughly a thousand hours in preparing for and realizing the BCS project. But these grouped photographs—the lawn darts, the abandoned concessions, the white smudges made by balls hitting the Blue Monster in left field—are the clearest indication that she, like me, was trying to make sense of a game that is as much about ritual as it is about rules. These accumulations make up a pattern, a vocabulary, through which Joyce can begin to understand the larger language.”
“[Kate’s] black-and-white photographs follow in the footsteps of Diego Velázquez’s An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (see page 10) and the artistic tradition of celebrating ‘low’ subject matter or, as Velázquez put it, ‘common things’.”
“But for all the horrific singularity of his acts, de Kock was a desperate soul, seeking to affirm to himself that he was still part of the human universe.”
SOLO-ARTIST BOOK Metaphysics (Hat & Beard Press Fall 2022) Metamorphoses (Special Problems Press 2021) Big Ears Knoxville (Hat and Beard Press 2019) MULTIPLE-ARTIST BOOK PUBLICATIONS include Analogies (Special Problems Press 2021) Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition (Thames & Hudson), Bull City Summer (Daylight Books), Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe (Museum of New Mexico Press), and Hollow City:The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (Verso). WORKS PUBLISHED BY Harper’s Magazine, BLAU International, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, The Chicagoan, Architect Magazine, Manoa Journal and The New York Times. IN THE COLLECTIONS OF Museum of New Mexico Palace of the Governors, NM; North Carolina Museum of Art, NC; Duke University Perkins Library Special Collections & Rare Book Archive, NC; The Cassilhaus Collection, NC; and the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, NY. SOLO EXHIBITIONS include SITE Santa Fe; Santa Fe Institute; Rick Wester Fine Art, New York; RTKL Chicago Gallery, Chicago; Experimental Sound Studio/Audible Gallery, Chicago; Duke University, Durham, NC. GROUP EXHIBITIONS include Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe; Guildhall Art Gallery, London; North Carolina Museum of Art, NC; Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, NC; The Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art, Chicago; Nasher Museum of Art, NC; and Museum of New Mexico Palace of the Governors, NM.
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