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 Away at 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