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Deluge (detail)

Silverpoints on Silver

Silverpoint is an ancient medium. Marks are made on a prepared surface with solid silver wire. You cannot erase, and the values are created by working over the surface repeatedly. It takes on a warm patina when it tarnishes. While most artists work on flat panels, I choose found silver objects as the grounds for my work.

Emotion is internal weather. Growing up in a highly dysfunctional family, tornadoes in my dreams have always felt like signals of impending doom, hovering on the horizon, a reminder to brace one’s self against the next disaster, while floods feel like overwhelming sorrow.

Silverpoints on Silver

Silverpoint is an ancient medium. Marks are made on a prepared surface with solid silver wire. You cannot erase, and the values are created by working over the surface repeatedly. It takes on a warm patina when it tarnishes. While most artists work on flat panels, I choose found silver objects as the grounds for my work.

Emotion is internal weather. Growing up in a highly dysfunctional family, tornadoes in my dreams have always felt like signals of impending doom, hovering on the horizon, a reminder to brace one’s self against the next disaster, while floods feel like overwhelming sorrow.

Deluge (detail)

Deluge (detail)

Deluge

Deluge

2012, silverpoint on found ladle, 11 x 3.5 x 3". Nina Fuentes Collection, Miami

Deluge II

Deluge II

2013, tarnished silverpoint and oil on found ladle, 7 x 2.5 x 1.5".

Deluge II (detail)

Deluge II (detail)

Tempest

Tempest

2011, tarnished silverpoint on found spoon, 1.5 x 5.5 x 1", Mike Watson collection, Miami

Tempest (detail)

Tempest (detail)

Tempest III

Tempest III

tarnished silverpoint on found spoon, 8 x 1.75 x 1".

Tempest II

Tempest II

2013, tarnished silverpoint on found spoon, 8 x 1.75 x 1". Eileen Brengle collection, Washington, D.C.

Tempest V

Tempest V

2013, tarnished silverpoint on silver spoon, 1 x 6 x .5". James Swope & Scott Robertson Collection, West Palm Beach.

Tempest IV

Tempest IV

2013, tarnished silverpoint on silver spoon, 1 x 6 x .5", Barbara Watts Collection, Miami

Fissure

Fissure

2013, tarnished silverpoint on found knife, 5.5 x .75".

Memento Innocenti

Memento Innocenti

2011, tarnished silverpoint on found cup, 2.25 x 5 x 2.75"

All Images are © Kate Kretz