Made possible through generous support from Greg & Joyce Donaldson
For the title of this exhibit I borrowed terms from verbal and written language - time, manner, and place - descriptors that make a sentence more specific and expressive. In visual art, manner can refer to the medium(a) and the artistic technique used, the way content is presented, and its purpose. Time and place join manner to describe the boundaries and narrative of the artwork. All three of these aspects are crucial to my art.
This exhibit consists of paintings and drawings created in the past seven years, time that includes retirement and Covid. They depict subjects and preoccupations that have long engrossed me. There are intimate objects, interiors, and landscapes from my post-teaching travels - places both close to my Evansville home and far from it. I want to take the viewer with me, to have a glass of wine at a summer cottage at sunset or a cocktail in Paris, to contemplate the early light of a spring or autumn morning, and to witness the quiet beauty of utopian New Harmony. It is my hope that the viewer will "enter" the scene before them, that they will identify something universal and human - and find meaning within it. The world is a beautiful and sometimes terrible place, and an artist must show it all: time, manner, and place.
- Kathryn Waters
Activities are made possible in part by The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
