Staged Meaning/Meaning Staged @ USC Fisher Museum of Art, Jan 22 – April 13, 2019

Thesaurus for Ceasing War, three embroidered silk panels with a 12-part poem completed in 2009, is being exhibited in Staged Meaning/Meaning Staged: Landscapes from the the USC Fisher Museum of Art’s permanent collection through mid-April, 2019. Other artists in the exhibition include Jan Brueghel the Elder, Mary Weatherford, and Carlos Almaraz. From the press release:

“To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Elizabeth Holmes Fisher Gallery at the University of Southern California, Fisher Museum of Art is pleased to present Staged Meaning/Meaning Staged. This exhibition features selections of Old Master and Contemporary landscapes from Fisher’s permanent collection. Through the prism of landscapes, these artworks collectively examine visual and ideological shifts in pictorial meaning.

“Each artwork embodies the aesthetic and pedagogic trends of its original historical context. As an aggregate, the works reflect changing approaches to representing and interpreting art and societal values. Staged Meaning surveys how the Old Master artists in Fisher’s permanent collection utilized landscape imagery to stage meaning prescribed by religion, history, allegory, and nationalist or expansionist ideology. The second part of the exhibition, Meaning Staged, adopts the concept of using landscapes as a vehicle for deriving individualized meaning, removed from the requirements of these historical contexts. Contemporary artists have initiated a shift by endowing the viewer with greater interpretive agency. That is, giving the viewer an opportunity to collaborate with the artist and partake in meaning-making, unburdened by conventions of the past.”

Mending Wall @ Brentwood Art Center, January 23, 2019

Join me for a Master Class (artist talk and interactive performance/workshop) at the Brentwood Art Center, 13031 Montana Ave., Los Angeles, January 23 from 6-8PM. I first staged this installation and collaborative artwork at Mana Contemporary Chicago in 2016. Read more about the Mending Wall Project here.

UNTITLED (House) @ IL State Museum Lockport, Opening Oct. 28, 2018

Incredibly honored to have “Warm Bones (For Agnes Martin)” included in UNTITLED (House), an exhibition of the Diane and Browne Goodwin Family Art Collection at the Illinois State Museum, Lockport Gallery. The quilt is a damaged and discarded worker’s quilt that I’ve inadequately repaired with gold straight stitches. The gold thread is old-new stock from Japan and was once used to make the shimmery gold elements in kimono and obi. It is incredibly delicate and breaks easily, as it’s made of paper with gold leaf pressed on it. The exhibition includes work by wonderful artists and friends, including Joanne Aono, Robert Burnier, and Sherri Denault, and is curated by Lauren Ball, Erik Wenzel, Gwen Zabicki, and Robin Dluzen. Opening reception is October 28, 2-5PM.

Studio/Workshop Residency @ Santa Monica’s Camera Obscura Art Lab

Honored to have a studio residency at Santa Monica’s Camera Obscura Art Lab, April 25-August 1. I’ll be leading image/text collage workshops nearly every week during the residency and will have the studio open to visitors on the days I’m working there. Here’s a nice little q+a the director of the program posted recently:

https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/q-a-with-artist-kate-ingold

Altered @ Prairie State College, February 12-March 15, 2018

My work is included in Altered, a four-artist show at Prairie State College’s Christopher Art Gallery curated by Beth Shadur, featuring work by myself and Katsy Johnson, Javier Chavira, and Rose Camastro-Pritchett. I’m showing Last Fisherman and Dark Waters, two image/text pieces from the Dream of Water project and series. If you attend the show, let me know what you think!

Two new poems in The Magazine Santa Fe

I’m honored to have two poems from my Ruins of Modernity series published in The Magazine Santa Fe. These poems were extracted from an essay by Dr. Shannon Lee Dawdy, “Clockpunk Anthropology and the Ruins of Modernity,” about the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans. Shannon is an archaeologist, filmmaker, theorist, and exceptional thinker, who I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know after meeting her in Oaxaca. Many thanks to editor Gabe Gomez for including my work.

Two Poems from Ruins of Modernity by Kate Ingold

Victorian House Art Gallery with Joanne Aono

Joanne Aono and I will be exhibiting work in our two-artist show, “Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion,” at The Victorian House Art Gallery, a unique venue run by curator and artist Sherri Denault. Please join us!

April 8 – May 4, 2017

The Victorian House Art Gallery
Olivet Nazarene University
577 S Main Street
Bourbonnais, IL

Summer Shows 2016

Betty Cleeland and I are opening our studio on Saturday, June 18, for Mana Contemporary’s Summer Open Studios. Join us to see our newest work and some of our older work (for sale!) and visit the other studios and happenings around the building. It will be a great night of exceptional art!

Details:

Mana Contemporary Chicago Open House, 6th Floor
2233 South Throop (at Cermak)
Saturday, June 18, 7-10 PM

Other opportunities to see my work this summer:

ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM
My embellished mourning quilt, The Relatively Brief Preponderance of Moments, is currently on view at the Rockford Art Museum’s Midwestern Biennial, curated by Sarah Krepp, through September 25, 2016. Read more here.

HYDE PARK ART CENTER
Artist and curator Connie Noyes included my piece, Drunken Forest: View from the Chromosphere, in Taking Shapes, a group exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center. On view until August 16.

PERRY FARM
Joanne Aono and I are collaborating on an interactive performance/installation at Perry Farm in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Curated by artist Sherri Denault, we will be presenting installations with Denault, Margie Sula, and Patty McWilliams during the park’s annual Nightscape extravaganza August 26. The installations/interactive works will be on view through October 7, 2016. More info to come on my website and on Facebook.

Hope to see you soon!

DIALOGUE 12 @ Evanston Art Center

I’m honored to be in a group show curated by Sarah Krepp at the Evanston Art Center, DIALOGUE 12. I’ve known Sarah since undergrad at U of Illinois, where she was one of my painting professors and my mentors. When I moved back to Chicago in 2010, I joined her monthly Dialogue critique group where I met some amazing artists and colleagues, including Robert Burnier, Karen Azarnia, Mara Baker, Melody Saraniti, Gregory Scott, and Chris Smith. When Sarah invited me to show with these artists, I jumped at the chance. The show is on view until April 17, 2016. I’m showing two quilts and a number of scratched photograph drawings from my Damaged Goods/Small Repairs series. Here’s an installation view:

Installation view at Evanston Art Center

Meet me at the Mending Wall

Meet me at the Mending Wall, an interactive performance involving graphite, erasers, and collective action.

Recognizing that the act of erasure can be an act of healing, and that communities are built on the support and assistance of others, this collective erasing is a direct response to the suffering around us, an offering to come together and work on a challenging task. Visitors are invited to erase their regrets, desires, prayers, or any message that needs attention or mending into the graphite, or to simply help erase the graphite from the wall wordlessly. Graphite is messy and difficult, if not impossible, to erase completely, yet the act of erasing gives us the opportunity to slow down and thoughtfully work together. Echoing the final blowing away of a sand mandala painting, or the washing and cleansing that follows any act of disruption or violence, the mending wall is a drawing-by-erasure made communally, containing the personal and collective in one action.

When: Mana Contemporary Open House, February 21, 2016, 12-4PM and through February 28.
Where: Mana Contemporary, 2233 S Throop (at Cermak), 5th Floor

I will be installing the graphite on February 19 and 20, 11-4. Stop by if you’d like to help. If you can’t make the opening on the 21st, come by anytime during the week to erase your message into the wall and participate in this erasure meditation.

Link to the Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1111243145573551/