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Kathleen Dunne
Dunne's Studio in Italy
As a playful exercise, Dunne sometimes paints in passages of pure light, often excluding any but the smallest element of darkness. At other times, she reverses the process by surrounding a single, illuminated shape with foreboding darkness. Her lyricism lies in the movement of the viewer's eye. If one listens closely, her compositions are amazingly musical. Her deep, intuitive understanding of the intricate refractions taking place within luminous, shifting tonalities is breathtaking. The eye moves through the high notes of melodies of thin translucent glazes into rich tones of textured pigment, resounding, like an organ fugue into unexpected juxtapositions of colors and forms, that, only a moment before, were simply unimaginable. And the gathering and summation of these lyric instruments is orchestrated by a master conductor of unpretentious genius.
In her landscapes, the land is stylized, flattened, and simplified into what one might expect to be mere surface, but instead, her process of abstraction, the act of eliminating all that is non-essential, creates a depth of inner vision of 'essence of land' rarely realized in pictorial art. It has roots and references to the geometry and translucencies of Llyonel Feininger and the two known landscapes on Amedeo Modigliani (who, in turn, was beholden to the landscapes of Paul Cezanne) but, as time progresses, her uniqueness and strength become more and more apparent.
Chronologically, Dunne is not a young painter, she was born in 1933, but her paintings contain a youthful vigor seldom seen in works by younger artists. It is a vigor and freshness which combines itself in an absolutely unaffected way with the sure and knowing hand of a well-practiced magician.
The Art Bar is proud to represent Kathleen Dunne in Tiburon, CA
"Glendalough #2" Ireland 48 x 48" oil
"Glendalough #1", Ireland 48 x 48 oil
2008
ART Bar Molinar Tiburon, CA solo show
ART Bar Molinar Tiburon, CA solo show2007ART Bar Molinar Tiburon, CA solo show
ART Bar Molinar Tiburon, CA solo show2006Tiburon Fine Art Tiburon, CA solo show
Tiburon Fine Art Tiburon, CA solo show2004Tiburon Fine Art Tiburon, CA solo show
Tiburon Fine Art Tiburon, CA solo show2000Vorpal Gallery San Francisco, CA solo show
Vorpal Gallery San Francisco, CA solo showVorpal Gallery New York, NY solo show1999Vorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA solo show
Vorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA solo show1998Vorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA solo show
Vorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA solo show1997Robins/Hyder Gallery Santa Fe, NM
Robins/Hyder Gallery Santa Fe, NM L.A. ArtCore Los Angeles, CA1996Vorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA solo show
Vorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA solo show1995L.A. ArtCore Los Angeles, CA solo show
L.A. ArtCore Los Angeles, CA solo showVorpal GallerySan Francisco, CAVorpal GalleryNew York, NY1994Vorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA solo show
Vorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA solo showPalezetti Gallery Los Angeles, CAL.A. ArtCore Los Angeles, CA1993Two Rodeo Beverly Hill, CA solo show
Two Rodeo Beverly Hill, CA solo showVorpal GallerySan Francisco, CA1992Ashley/Craig Gallery Venice, CA solo show
Ashley/Craig Gallery Venice, CA solo show Vorpal GallerySan Francico, CA LACMA Gallery Los Angeles, CAE D U C A T I O N
Philadelphia Museum School of Art, B.A. 1955 Otis Parsons UCLA Extension, CA
Santa Monica College, CA
"Mura di Lucca #6, oil 60 x 60"
"Mura di Lucca #7" oil 47 x 40"
"Mura di Lucca #8" oil 72 x 48",
"Santa Maria della Spina #2" oil 60 x 48"
"La Roret Farmhouse 1 & 2" France
oil 27.5 x 31.5"
Rt: "View From Frederico's"
Together as a Diptych
"Firenze", oil 30 x 36
