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In the early 1990’s, Verde co-directed and produced an artist's television show called ''Antenna TV'', with Anney Bonney. Twelve episodes were produced for public access TV. The show debuted at the club [[The Cooler (night club)|The Cooler]], on West 14th Street. The ''[[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]]'' magazine website has a video excerpt from ''Antenna TV'', featuring a reading by the poet, [[David Rattray]], who passed away in 1993. In the excerpt Rattray reads his poem "Mr. Peacock".<ref>''Bomb'' magazine, 7 May 2013, Artists in Conversation, Literature: Essay, "David Rattay: A Recognition by Lynne |
In the early 1990’s, Verde co-directed and produced an artist's television show called ''Antenna TV'', with Anney Bonney. Twelve episodes were produced for public access TV. The show debuted at the club [[The Cooler (night club)|The Cooler]], on West 14th Street. The ''[[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]]'' magazine website has a video excerpt from ''Antenna TV'', featuring a reading by the poet, [[David Rattray]], who passed away in 1993. In the excerpt Rattray reads his poem "Mr. Peacock".<ref>''Bomb'' magazine, 7 May 2013, Artists in Conversation, Literature: Essay, "David Rattay: A Recognition by Lynne Tillman, Anney Bonney & Betsy Sussler, [http://bombmagazine.org/article/7184/david-rattray-a-recognition] Accessed 11 January 2016</ref> |
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Revision as of 19:41, 11 February 2016
Caterina Verde | |
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Born | Kathryn Greene |
Nationality | American, French |
Known for | conceptual art, installation art, video, photography, drawing, painting, text work |
Website | Official website |
Caterina Verde (born Kathryn Greene) is a conceptual and visual artist of both American and French nationality, who currently lives and works in New York. Verde's work uses a cross section of media, and incorporates video and installation-style situations with text works. Verde also works with photography, drawing and painting. For a period she worked actively making light works, which were shown extensively during the early 90’s. The base of her work is conceptual.
Verde (as Kathryn Greene) is perhaps best known for her years as the Performance Art and Hybrid Nights curator at The Kitchen, a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space in downtown Manhattan, New York City.
Work
Verde began her career primarily as a painter. In the late 1980s, through to the late 1990s, she was part of the early scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she was active as a participating organizer with the Four Walls Slide and Film Club.
Verde was an early proponent of using computers for art-making purposes; she began making large format, free-standing sculptural works from images which had been manipulated in the computer. She used the same technique to produce light works which were featured as part of the "Leonardo Gallery" in Leonardo Volume 28, 1995. They were also part of a traveling exhibition organized by Michael Dashkin.[1]
Verde's work is centered around perceptual, psychological, and linguistic twists. Her photographs and video works incorporate text, and are often presented in installation form. As Matthew Rose (a freelance journalist and artist who has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal) commented in 2004:[2]
When viewing Verde’s work -- a range of video, painting, photography and photomontage — I am often reminded of my ability to “see” anything at all, for there is in her artistic enterprise an affective inward and outward movement, an aesthetic inhaling and exhaling, with overtones of the apocalypse. In her multi-media works, Verde traps the poignancy of evanescence, of something about to happen, or what it looks like after it has happened: the trace of an event, or the after-murmur of the heart.
Projects in collaboration
Verde has collaborated with other artists, including: the French choreographer, Daria Fain on the "Commoning" project [3] with Robert Kocik, and "Germ", a performance for which Verde did the video; the Belo-Russe performance artist Pasha Radetzki, with whom she performed in 2012 at dOCUMENTA 13, under the auspices of Critical Art Ensemble's curatorial initiative. She also worked with Radetzki on "Enigma of a Litmus Test", which was part of a live stream at artist, Hope Sandrow’s, "On the Road Open Air Gallery".[4]
Another collaboration, for "Confinement and the Art of Decoration", was with the German sculptor Gloria Zein, and the Norwegian artist, Elise Martens. This project stemmed from Verde's years in Paris, and was initially produced at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut.
Commentary on the work
Ebon Fisher, when describing Verde's work, said:[5]
Caterina continuously pushes back and forth between curatorial projects and formal creative expression, agitating numerous lines between the two."
And Fisher had previously commented:[6]
Caterina Verde's split photographs of animals and communications apparatus are very strange things. Their quirky simplicity butts heads against an onrush of dissonance. Charm, dread and infinite possibility jumble together. I grab for the nearest lollipop and suck like a baby, staring, bewildered, itchy."
Matthew Rose, a freelance journalist, described Verde's work in this way:[2]
Verde (aka Kathryn Greene) captures emptiness while choreographing her images in a kind of cross-pollination of absences. The works are an exhumation of waiting and those anxious moments--the visual moments--affixed to that emotional state."
Curatorship
The Kitchen
From 1994 - 1997 Verde (as Kathryn Greene) was the Hybrid and Performance Art Curator at The Kitchen in New York City. Her curatorial programming included a series called "Hybrid Nights”.[7] This period in the mid-1990s marked what may have been one of the most uncertain of times for The Kitchen, as it had lost most of its funding.[8]
Verde left The Kitchen to accept a two-year residency in Paris through the American Center in Paris's artist residency program at the Cité internationale des arts [7].
Antenna TV
In the early 1990’s, Verde co-directed and produced an artist's television show called Antenna TV, with Anney Bonney. Twelve episodes were produced for public access TV. The show debuted at the club The Cooler, on West 14th Street. The Bomb magazine website has a video excerpt from Antenna TV, featuring a reading by the poet, David Rattray, who passed away in 1993. In the excerpt Rattray reads his poem "Mr. Peacock".[9]
Strange Positioning Systems
More recently, Verde spearheaded an online performance site, "Strange Positioning Systems”, [8] which was initiated from a grant from Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut. Strange Positioning Systems has several artists working internationally, and has provided live streams for performance works including Alexander Viscio’s "Inside Verbal Seed", with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.[9], [10]
Photography and video
Verde is also know for her photographic work of other artists, such as Keith Sonnier[11] and photographs for books of artworks. (Keith Sonnier: Portals --getting info for this....)
To this end her photographs have appeared in the New York Times (http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/artifacts-the-sensual-suggestive-appeal-of-keith-sonniers-neon-sculptures/?_r=0), Le Figaro (http://www.lefigaro.fr/arts-expositions/2015/06/16/03015-20150616ARTFIG00283-rencontre-avec-keith-sonnier-lumiere-la-louisiane.php), East Hampton Star: http://easthamptonstar.com/Lead-C/2014211/Sonnier-Casts-Spell-Pace among others.
Her photographs have also appeared in the following books for Sonnier’s exhibitions:
- Keith Sonnier Elysian Plain + Early Works, published by Pace Gallery 2014 (ISBN: 978-1-935410-51-5); Keith Sonnier, Elliptical Transmissions, publ by Tripoli Gallery 2014 (ISBN: 978-1-4951-2014-5); Keith Sonnier, Portals, publ by Karma and Keith Sonnier, 2015 (ISBN: 978-1-942607-17-5)
Verde has also done extensive photography for Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, in Watermill, New York.
Personal life
For a number of years, Verde was married to guitarist John McCurry. She has a child, Madeleine Hykes, with musician/composer David Hykes.
References
- ^ Leonardo, Volume 28, No. 1 (1995) [1] Accessed 2016.1.17
- ^ a b Thick Emptiness and Holes: Anatomy of a Melancholy by Matthew Rose, Artthemagazine (online) 2004 Cite error: The named reference "Rose" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Website DariaFain.net [2]Aceessed 2016.2.11
- ^ Website HopeSandrow.com, 2010, [3], Accessed 2016.2.11
- ^ “Confinement and the Art of Decoration”, from Plummage to Plunder, 2006, catalogue essay by Ebon Fisher
- ^ Hyper-Runt, InLiquid, 2004 catalogue essay by Ebon Fisher
- ^ New York Times, Arts, "In Uncertain Times, the Kitchen Takes Stock" by Robin Pogrebin, Published: September 13, 1995 [4] Accessed 2016.1.17
- ^ New York Times, [5] Accessed 2016.1.17
- ^ Bomb magazine, 7 May 2013, Artists in Conversation, Literature: Essay, "David Rattay: A Recognition by Lynne Tillman, Anney Bonney & Betsy Sussler, [6] Accessed 11 January 2016
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