Kathy Putnam
Biography
Kathy Loev Putnam is a figurative painter who works in oil, acrylic, printmaking and mixed media collage. Putnam has exhibited in group shows in New York, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Kansas City, St. Louis, Brownsville, TX, and Hastings, NE. She has been featured in several digital and print publications, including Spotlight Contemporary ARTMagazine, Create! Magazine, Friend of the Artist, Studio Visit Magazine, and Circle Foundation for the Arts. Putnam has been an artist in residence at The Vermont Studio Center, and she earned her MFA at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2018.
Artist Statement
I have always been fascinated by portraiture, realism and the figure. I am powerfully affected by beauty and ornamentation in painting, and by the intimacy created between a human subject and a viewer. In my own work, I want to preserve elements of representation, while deconstructing the figure in further exploration of my subject. While I do not work directly from observation, my paintings are typically inspired by an image or memory of one of my daughters. Anchored in a gesture that is both personal and familiar, my subjects depart from the specific and evolve into invented individuals. They become universal portraits of girls during their formative years, marked by a vivid internal consciousness, and at times a sense of social disconnection. Changeable and often ambiguous narratives emerge, inviting the viewer to consider questions about femininity, identity, transition, and awakenings.
Website www.kathyloevputnam.com
Instagram Instagram.com/kathyloevputnam_art/
363 Days. Oil, mixed media collage on linen on wood panel. 60 x 48 in.
Crazy Hat Dress Up. Oil, screen print, mixed media collage on wood panel. 48 x 36 in.
Emily. Acrylic, screen print, mixed media collage on wood panel. 40 x 30 in.
Hoppy in Color. Oil on linen, collage on burlap, mounted on panel. 46.5 x 20 in.
In Fine Feather. Acrylic, screen print, monotype, mixed media collage on wood panel. 48 x 36 in.
Not Yet Alice. Oil, acrylic, mixed media collage on wood panel. 48 x 36 in.
Party In My Hair. Oil, acrylic, screen print, mixed media collage on wood panel. 36 x 48 in.
Safe to Play. Oil, screen print, mixed media collage on wood panel. 40 x 30 in.
