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ARTIST INFORMATION SHEET
Artist
Kate Wright
Philosophy
“I have always been interested in "style," whether it was clothing, furniture, decor, or one’s own individuality.”
Kate’s personality and artistic styles embrace her taste for fashion
and the fashionable. She approaches her illustration with passion and
excitement, with a glimpse of charisma and youthful fun. Kate is not
afraid of bold interpretation that portray an attitude, and at the same
time, elegance. These emotions are revealed in her use of bold colors,
rough textures, and the utilization of fanciful papers, fabric and
metallic paint.
Kate’s creative endeavors are much like investigations, sometimes
spontaneous and other times solved with much research and precise
order. They allow a journey to take place exploring concepts, forms,
shapes, and materials.
“When illustrating the world is forgotten and I
find myself thoughtfully lost in my own ideas. As the journey
progresses, past experience, combined with present discovery,
wonderment, and adaptation of materials create newly found solutions."
Style
Many styles are utilized, depending on the project and use of media,
however, some underlying themes in Kate’s work often display:
fashion, youthful characters, textures, and bold, rich, saturated
colors. Some of her favorite fine artists include: Monet, Klimt,
Basquiat, Van gogh, Matisse, Seurat, and Dalí. Also, the fashion illustrators who have influenced
Kate's work are: Barnes, Perez, Iliya, Tinabe, Brooks, Eula, and Downtown.
Materials
Kate works in collage, multi-media, acrylic paint, soft pastels, markers, colored
pencils, Conté pencils, and watercolors. She works with many different
kinds of outlets, including: canvas, illustration board,
watercolor paper, and wood board on various sizes typically ranging
from 4” to 3 feet and everything in between.
Exhibitions
As The Crow Flies Studio, gallery co-exhibition, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2007 Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany Art Educators Show, Albany, NY 2003
Silver Needle Fashion Show, Marist College, 10-piece fashion design collection featured, "The Funk and Punk of the London Streets,"
among others, Poughkeepsie, NY, April, 1995
Publications
Free Fall's Journey and Pure Movement Fashion Lines, featuring fashion illustration/design for company's start-up, promotional materials, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2008 Threads of Wiawaka Charity Fashion Show, fashion
illustration and collage art featured for all of event's
printed pieces, Saratoga Springs, NY, June, 2007 Silver Needle Fashion Show, Marist College, fashion designs featured, Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, NY, April, 1995
Fashion Predictions for the Millennium featuring fashion illustration for Ursula of Switzerland, Inc. by Kate Wright, Times Union, Albany, NY, January, 2000
Education
Marywood University, Scranton, PA, MFA Visual Art (Illustration) 2003-6
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, BPS Fashion Design/Merchandising 1991-5
London College of Fashion, England, Study Abroad Program 1993-4
Credentials
New York State Teaching Certification, Permanent, Art, K-12
New York State Teaching Certification, Permanent, Fashion Design Technology, K-12
Related Experience
Art Educator, City School District of Albany, NY, PK-7, 2003-present
Art Educator, Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, NY, PK-8, 2001-3
Assistant Fashion Designer, Ursula of Switzerland, Inc., Waterford, NY, 1998-2000
Assistant Merchandiser/Designer, JAJO, LLC., Albany, NY, 1998
Co-Manager, Victoria’s Secret, Inc., Albany, NY, 1995-8
Fashion Show Assistant, Bill Blass, NYC, 1993-8
Tent Captain, Council of Fashion Designers of America, NYC, 1993
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