Katherine Earle

Work
- Jelly Fish
- Trash Weavings
- Neons
- Plastics
- Rust
About
Exhibitions
CV

Work
- Jelly Fish
- Trash Weavings
- Neons
- Plastics
- Rust
About
Exhibitions
CV

2024

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Welcome Stranger

“The study & practice of craft is a form of material resistance against ethnic cleansing, genocide and occupation.”-Jenna Hamed
“The stranger, on the other hand, can also easily become and already is each one of us, as we exist as both subjects to ourselves and objects to others in the world.” -Laurel V. McLaughlin

Detritus Upcycled

This exhibit serves to enrich the dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people. art is not a solution, but it serves as a reminder that we must do something to stop the proliferation of trash that is overtaking our environment.

Purple sign with pink green and blue graphics spelling out: Collecting, An Art Fair at Westbeth Galler, August 28 - September 15, 2024. Gallery hours, Wednesday - Sunday 1pm-6pm. — Collecting, an Art Fair

Art Lives Here is presenting an art fair just as the summer blends into fall. The fair will feature the work of 52 contemporary artists. All are members of ALH’s growing community of artists from New York City, the U.S., London, Berlin and Buenos Aires. Art Lives Here: Collecting is curated from the viewpoint of collecting contemporary art and building a collection over time. ALH founder and chief curator Connie Lee led the curatorial team of Alison Cuomo, Karen Fitzgerald and Jim Richards. Each of the 4 rooms at the iconic Westbeth Gallery are curated with a unique theme within the larger cohesive exhibition.

2023

Illiquid Objects

Curated by Defne Tutus & Yasmeen Abdallah
Illiquid Objects is a material investigation into personal production and craft using fiber, beads and amuletic objects. We are interested in exploring the handmade object as a place to store dreams.Many of these artists work in the tangible world of physical materials and they push the boundaries of traditional textile techniques. They find inspiration in the fraying, breaking, and re-imagining of old narratives.

2022

The Bone that Sings Was mine

curated by Defne Tutus
The artists in The Bone That Sings Was Mine sew bones, repair and mend bits of trash, paint with hair and exuvia, make gold rust, fill a cemetery with mellifluous song. They make amulets, shields, masks, regalia, songs and storytelling that enchants. The nine artists in this exhibit leave behind objects, marks and sounds in the world that seek to express how strange it all was.

Miscreant Matter

Katherine Earle & Carol PaiK, curated by Connie Lee
“While as humans, we are vital players in this world, so too are things.” Can we capture all the discarded, rejected, degenerate, degraded and miscreant matter and repurpose it through small acts of creation? W In the consistent repair and reimagining of the castaway matter in our lives, we interrupt our learned habits of relegating some items to the status of nonessential. By engaging with these vibrant materials, Artists Carol Paik and Katherine Earle are both redefining the our relationship with materials a method to bring us “closer to an ecological sensibility.”
Quotes are from Laurel Mcleod writing on Jane Benett’s Vibrant Matter

Living with Art

Art Lives here members only salon curated by connie Lee
Living with Art is an ongoing series of curated exhibitions presented salon style in a Harlem brownstone. The salons provide an environment that nurtures artists, arts professionals and the collectors who want to support them.

2021

Dappled things

Curated by Kathie Halfin @ Academy of St. Joseph, 111 Washington Place NY, NY
Weaving is a creation story. Just as nature’s seemingly distinct and particular living organisms work as a unit to uphold life, warp and weft join the stuff of the universe to make up our world. The exhibition “Dappled Things'' brings together the work of Katherine Earle and Defne Tutus, artists whose explorations of weaving reflect on the elemental and intrinsic connection humans have with nature.

Unartisanal

Curated by Yasmeen Abdallah and Vandana jain
"Unartisanal" is an online exhibition featuring artists working in traditional craft and will prioritize work that foregrounds the integrity of the maker, materials and methods; favoring quality, time, principle and labor over trend, style or aesthetic. Incorporating an array of techniques drawn from many traditions, these works slow down to a different wavelength. The practiced methods, steady hands, repetition, and focus required by craft are augmented by chance, whim and unconscious intent.

Women celebrating Women

Curated by Yvonne Lamar-Rogers
A multi-media group exhibition as reflected in the creative works of over 70 women identified artists working in the New York Area

Heatwave

Dodomu Gallery
August 5- August 31, 2021

Every Woman Biennial

Copeland Gallery, London
Curated by Eddy Grattan-Bellew and Ruby Streek IN cooperation with C. Finley and Molly Caldwell
Invited through a democratic open call, the Salon Exhibition features works for sale by international and London-based acclaimed and emerging female and non-binary artists.

Factory + Art = II

Paterson, NJ
May 2021
Curated by Emil SilbErman
Second iteration of this group exhibit hosted in an old brewery, bringing together visual artists, poets and performance artist in a salon style exhibit in an abandoned factory space.

Upcycling Detritus

Curated by Vernita Nemec with Sculptors ALliance
In these times, our environment is in danger more than ever and we must do all we can to save it from further destruction. The evidence suggests that early art was created by artist/shamans who protected the hunt and blessed the harvest. The power of art continues to exist in our contemporary time, and this power continues to be available for us to implement it. Creating from the discarded materials as an alternative, however, is crucial — and to extend the use of materials and reduce the abuse of materials that require the destruction of the environment.

2020

The shape of things We Create

Installation of Networth in shutesbury, MA
Outdoor gallery, October 2020
Shape of things came out of an artists collective presenting interactive online shows. Our shared vision is born from ongoing conversations. We came together to put shape to the ideas that emerge when we connect. In multiple sites and in multiple seasons, our work and those of other invited artists interact with their environments in new and surprising ways.

Factory + Art =

paterson, NJ
November 2020
curated by Emil Silberman
A group of sculptors guild members and invited guests exhbit group show on four floors of an abandoned Brewery. site specific installations on every floor, interactive witht their environment.

touching without Touch

curated by Kathie Halfin
a series of performances online that respond to the current events of pandemic and reflect on the expression of care for oneself and our communities, health care, alternative ways to provide and receive mental support, care for art and art education that are essential to a functioning society and desire for social and systemic change.

2019

Art Aqua Miami

curated by Anita Trombetta Claudia Santiso
SHIM/Emerge | Organized by Meeting House Residency: Claudia Santiso and Anita Trombetta | Hosted by SHIM Art Network

Monochrome

juried by donna harkavy
Monochrome’s power springs from a paradox: highly restrictive and reductionist, while at the same time aimed at the expansion, even the overcoming, of image-making. By placing rigorous limits on color, other qualities are allowed to emerge.

Animals

Juried by Alina cohen
Animals elicit human’s interest through their simultaneous estrangement from and congruence with ourselves. They mark continuity: they are what we evolved from. But they also mark rupture: the seemingly fundamental disconnect between humanity and the rest of the natural world. The artists in this show work within these connected aporias and contradictions.