GalleriesNow announces In Season, Kate Bickmore’s first solo exhibition with ANNKA KULTY’S GALLERY.
Kate Bickmore: In Season
Fri 17 Sep 2021 to Sat 16 Oct 2021
Wed-Sat noon-6pm Artist: Kate Bickmore
Annka Kultys Gallery presents In Season, an exhibition of new work by the London-based artist Kate Bickmore. On show are seven of the artist’s immersive oil paintings that seductively interweave the surfaces, depths and desires of the artist’s experiences as a queer woman using Bickmore’s chosen visual language of florascape.
While simultaneously presenting as both hyperrealistic and fantastical, the artist uses her florascapes to explore new modes of perception, unconscious urges and systems of meaning.
Says Bickmore of her process and preferred vernacular: “Within my paintings, I embrace the sensational pleasures, wonder, and enjoyment of plants as a powerful and elusive site of transformation. …The flowers in my paintings are given a majestic and powerful status – depicted not as victims or specimens of the objective gaze, but instead as living, breathing agents that can build consciousness and create a sense of connectivity.” This atmosphere is reflected in the artist’s mischievous choice of title for the exhibition. In Season is at once a reference to the cyclical nature of flowering plants and the successful growing periods for crops and yet is alsosynonymous with the period when a female (mammal usually) indicates it is ready to mate.
In Season represents the artist’s first solo show with a commercial gallery and Annka Kultys Gallery is delighted to have been able to offer Bickmore the opportunity to present her work in such a context.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Kate Bickmore is an emerging artist (b. Albany, New York, 1993) presently living in London whose practice currently focuses on creating florascape paintings in oils.
Bickmore graduated from the MFA painting program at the Royal College of Art in London in 2019. She received her BA (honours, summa cum laude) in Studio Art from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY in 2015, following a semester studying abroad at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2014.