Kate Stone: DOOMSCROLL
Kate Stone: DOOMSCROLL
September 6 - September 29, 2024
First Friday Opening Reception, Friday, September 6th, 6-9 pm
PRACTICE Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Kate Stone: DOOM SCROLL. In this exhibition, Stone works across installation, sculpture and animation to imagine the ways in which our minds and bodies are reflected in the spaces we occupy with a specific focus on the cognitive dissonance that occurs when we consume the horrors of the external world from the (dis)comfort of our living room sofas. Practice is honored to have Stone show with us in September. Please join us for the First Friday Opening Reception, Friday, September 6th, 6-9 pm.
Artist’s Bio
Kate Stone is a Brooklyn-based artist working across installation, sculpture and animation. She received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. She has been awarded the Tierney Fellowship, The Lotos Foundation Prize, an FST StudioProjects Grant and a Kone Foundation Grant. She has attended residencies at NARS Foundation, Artists Alliance LES Studio Program, Kone Foundation, MASS MoCA and Mudhouse Residency. Her work has been exhibited at 601Artspace, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Dinner Gallery, FiveMyles, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Rubber Factory, Spring Break Art Show, Shelter Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, The Museum of Broken Relationships and Transmitter Gallery, among others
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Artist’s Statement
Kate Stone works across installation, sculpture and animation to imagine the ways in which our minds and bodies are reflected in the spaces we occupy with a specific focus on the cognitive dissonance that occurs when we consume the horrors of the external world from the (dis)comfort of our living room sofas. Her animations combine stop-motion, drawing and miniature sets to describe labyrinthine, distorted interiors. Her sculptures employ carpet, found furniture and other household materials to imagine a process in which domestic space absorbs so much residue of life that it is animated into a living organism. Drawing inspiration from science, mythology, suburbia, human anatomy and horror tropes, Stone builds worlds that exist between interior and exterior, reality and superstition, architecture and the body. They are psychological spaces in the midst of transformation, being overtaken by supernatural forces that stand in for the anxiety that world events bring into our personal lives and private spaces.
