Kate Mink is an artist, mum, pretend librarian, very bewildered Scottish person who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years.
Statement: When I create, I go to a world where the surrounding light is like that of a late sunny autumnal afternoon and all is bathed in a warm sleepy glow. It is an in between place where things are not quite as they seem. In this other world I visit old houses, gardens and hills, collecting yellowing paper, flowers and playing with memories. The fragmented images and feelings from these journeys float up to the surface which I capture between layers of golden ink or bees wax, thread and paper, trapping a fleeting moment, in a slightly haunted suspension. These collections of marks and images become souvenirs of journeys back there to hold onto. To create a small space/place where I always feel I belong and maybe/hopefully if I get it right, for others to belong, and remember that beautiful fleeting in-between too.
…curriculum vitae… KATE MINK: charmfoundry (at) gmail (dot) com EDUCATION: 1993 BA Hons Fine Art. Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2019 In Between Time - Thomas Tosh, Thornhill, Scotland UK 2017 Nostomania - Thomas Tosh, Thornhill, Scotland UK May 27th - May 29th Springback Artist for Spring Fling 2017 Thomas Tosh Thornhill, Scotland UK 2015 Anti-nightmare Wallpaper and the 'ladies' behind it: Mink and Mann, The Burlington Hotel, Port Costa, CA 2015 Invisible forces: Amy Burek and Kate Mink, The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA 2010 We Sleep Deep, Thomas Tosh, Thornhill, Scotland, UK 2010 Wax Works. Jackson St Gallery SFUHS, San Francisco,CA 2007 The Past is Another Country. Valentines, Portland, OR 2005 Selected Works. Lapin, Oakland, CA 2005 Waxing Lyrical. The Black Sheep, Ashland, OR 2004 Paper Boats and Envelopes. Colosso, Portland, OR 2003 Wax Works. Colosso, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Marvels to Hold Dear, with Ben Belknap and Elise Mahan The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA 2017/18 The Flat Files Show, Nielsen Arts Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2016/17 510 All Stars Round Two, Nielsen Arts Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2016 A Full Plate: The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA 2016 Phantasmagoria: The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA 2015 Strike Awayat Paxton Gate Curiosities, San Francisco, CA 2015 Keepsake: The Compound Artists Gallery, Oakland, CA 2015 Small Worlds: Michael Tunk and friends, K Gallery, Alameda, CA 2015 Collage Alchemy, Nielsen Arts, Berkeley, CA 2013 Animal Kingdom, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley, CA 2012 Winter Show, Thomas Tosh, Thornhill, Scotland, UK 2009 The Ties that Bind, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland What Remains, California Bank of Commerce, Lafayette, CA 2008 Wishful thinking, Lark and Key, Charlotte, NC Old School, Uppercase, Calgary, Canada Songcatcher, Lark and Key, Charlotte, NC Ship of Fools, Autobody Fine Art, Alameda, CA Teeny Tiny Show II, Portsmouth, NH 2007 Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA Waxed, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA Drawn Conclusions. Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA 2006 Peep. Red Ink Studios OPN, San Francisco, CA Hot Wax. Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 Pacific Switchboard, Portland, OR 2004 Comics. Pacific Switchboard, Portland, OR Freedom Frenzy. Nocturnal, Portland, OR 2002 Little Things. Disjecta Gallery, Portland, OR. Staff Exhibit. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. 2001 Charm Bracelet Meeting People. Portland, OR 1997 Selected Pages from The Commonplace Book, Dumfries, Scotland, UK. 1994 Recent Acquisitions. Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland. Young Blood. Gracefield Arts Centre, Southwest Scotland, Purchase Prize Award 1993 New Generations. The Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
JURIED EXHIBITIONS: 2019 Bay Area Prints, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA 2006 Impulse, National Encaustic Show, Portland Art Center, OR Juror’s Jef Gunn and Elise Wagner, presented by SparkplugArt 8th Annual Valentine Invitational, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR 2004 Small Images.Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College Juror Bennett Roberts. Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles. 2003 Encaustic Works. Fourth International Biennial Exhibition, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY. Juror Tracy Bashkoff, Associate Curator for Collections and Exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2016 Fiddler's Green Peculiar Parish Magazine, Wonderella Press. ed. Clint Marsh Article: Anti-Nightmare Wallpaper (and the Ladies behind it) Mink and Mann 2015 Eleven Eleven: A Journal of Literature and Art, no.19 California College of the Arts. ed. Hugh Behm-Steinberg