Kate
Stone
Bio
Kate Stone
Kate Stone works across installation, sculpture and animation to build worlds that exist between interior and exterior, reality and superstition, architecture and the body. She constructs psychological spaces in the midst of transformation, being overtaken by supernatural forces that represent the anxiety that world events bring into our personal lives and private spaces. Stone 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, Atlanta Contemporary, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Dinner Gallery, FiveMyles, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Practice Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, Transmitter Gallery and Union Hall Denver among others.
Pieces
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Artist's Statement
These works employ carpet, wool and found 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, human anatomy and horror tropes, these pieces imagine the ways in which our minds and bodies are reflected in the spaces we occupy. My work draws from American suburbia - its aesthetics as well as its cultural role as a site for ambient dread and anxiety. I am interested in the cognitive dissonance that occurs when we consume the horrors of the external world from the (dis)comfort of our living room sofas and how this psychological state can transform ourselves and our surroundings.