Kathryn Dunlevie: Femmes Futuristes

April 01 - May 06,2023

From Hooks-Epstein Galleries: "Kathryn Dunlevie has always been intrigued by spatial and temporal inconsistencies, and by each individual’s particular and shifting sense of what is real. Fragmenting, reassembling, and layering images, she suggests the fluidity of space and time and the complex psychologies of the entities she portrays. Femmes Futuristes is an exhibition of photography-based collages, each of which depicts the silhouette of a woman composed of fragmented images. The images are pieced together from a familiar, shared visual history and relocated to various settings from Dunlevie’s photographic archives. The collaged interiors of these women, who are often depicted stepping in a forward momentum, impart a sense of power and purpose, while the open-ended panoramas evoke the prospect of unique possibilities. With this work, Dunlevie hopes to inspire viewers to expel feelings of limitation and to embrace a transformation of the self, where qualities and attitudes are chosen freely, independent of societal norms and pressures. Kathryn Dunlevie earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from Rice University (Houston, TX) in 1974 and studied at the Museum School at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MA) in 1975. She also studied art history and film at the University of Paris (France), painting at California College of the Arts (San Francisco), and photography in Madrid (Spain). Dunlevie has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellowships. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Artweek, Visual Art Source, Germany’s ProfiFoto, and Spain’s La Fotografia Actual. Her work was also included in L.A. Photo Curator’s “Top 40 of 2021” and PhotoAlliance’s “Bay Area Current(ly)” in 2020. Dunlevie’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, Studio Thomas Kellner in Germany, Gallery TPW in Toronto, Canada, and in the United States at the FotoFest Biennial (Houston, TX), the Artists Gallery of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), the Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, D.C.), the Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose (CA), and at Stanford University (CA), amongst other esteemed arts institutions. She currently resides in Palo Alto, California."

Reception: April 01, 2023 | 4-7 pm

Hooks-Epstein Galleries 2631 Colquitt Street
Houston, TX 77098
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