475 25th Street, Oakland CA 94612 \ 510-701-4620

Friday + Saturday: 12-5pm and by appt.

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Kathleen King

Intro

My assemblages, sculptures, and installations arrange discarded materials, questioning established hierarchies of value by connecting materials, design, and structure with precarities encountered in personal and social contexts. Often drawing inspiration from urban surroundings, I reference construction sites, architecture, streets, and encampments. Influenced by art-historical sources from Constructivism to Arte Povera to African-American quilts, I explore states of co-existence, contingency and control. Attention is drawn to how we make our social environments and in turn are made by them. As the works juxtapose, engage, and balance they challenge viewers into empathy with sculptural objects and with each other.

Solo Exhibitions

2018     So This, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2017     Desert Gathering, Joshua Tree Highlands Residency, Joshua Tree, CA

Around + About, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2016     Square Peg, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2015     Scrap Variations, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA

2014     Street View, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA

Wood Vibrations, Mercury 20 Gallery

2013     Out Here, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2010     Tongue & Groove, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2009     Last Waltz, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2008     Slipping (Into Something), Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2007     Natural Impulse, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2005     Spirit of the Moment, Muddy’s, San Francisco, CA

2003     October, Jazz House, Berkeley, CA

Soul Tracing, 66 Balmy Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018     The Magic of Collaboration, Adobe Gallery, Castro Valley, CA, with: Laura van Duren – Curated by Leah Virsik

Decennial, Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA – Curated by Matt & Lena Reynoso

Room for Thought, SPACE 151, San Francisco, CA. – Juror: Jack Fischer

Generations, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA – Juror: Farley Gwazda

Melting Point, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA – Curated by Nick Dong & Johanna Poethig

2017     Turing’s Echo, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA – Curated by Natalia Mount
Radical Hope, Three Girls Theater Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016     Sculpture in the Garden, Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, CA
Mercury 20 at 10, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2015     Common Thread, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2013     Transformation of Connectivity, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2012     After the Fall, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

Abstraction: Pull and Sway, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

ArtPadSF, Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

2011     The Gyre, collaboration with Laura van Duren and Dave Meeker, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA

2010     Civic Art Exhibition at City Hall, Berkeley, CA – Curated by Archana Horsting

Inside/Out, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA – Curated by Cathy Coe

Don’t Look Back, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA With: Margaret Chavigny, Charlie Milgrim, Jill McLennan

2009     Forecast, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA With: Julie Alvarado, Joan Weiss, Aaron Geman

2006     Fall Exhibition, MobiTV, Emeryville, CA With: Jane Norling and Lorrie Fink, Curated by Cynthia Lait

Mercury Rising, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA – Curated by Robert Tomlinson

Deep Space, Space Gallery, San Francisco – Curated by Elizabeth Starr

Mad River Post, San Francisco, Curated by William Torphy

2005     Collective 9: Off the Grid, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Holiday Invitational, California Modern Gallery, San Francisco CA

Contemporary Abstraction, Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA – Juror: Kenneth Baker, San Francisco

Chronicle

She Creates, Off-Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004     Collective 9: Grouping, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Whimsy 2, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA

     Jack London Invitational, Oakland, CA with: Andy Black, Mary Ann Hayden, Carin Rehbinder,

Rosemary Allen – Curated by Joanna Adler, Jamie Brunson, Claudia Marseille

Meditations, Los Medanos College Art Gallery, Pittsburg, CA with: Maya Kabat and Carianne Mack

Curated by Heidi Neff

At Club Six, San Francisco – Curated by Elizabeth Starr

2003     Jupiter Outdoor Art Show – Berkeley

Whimsy – ACCI Gallery, Berkeley

The Art Show – Start Soma Gallery, San Francisco

Artists’ Valentines – Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley

2002     National Juried Annual – Berkeley Art Center – Juror: Nancy Mizuno Elliott, Exhibitions Director,

Richmond Art Center

Artists’ Valentines – Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley

2001     New Artists – Hang Gallery, Palo Alto

Juried Annual – Gallery Route One, Point Reye -Juror: Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator of Art,

Oakland Museum

2000     Juried Annual – Pro Arts, Oakland -Juror: Larry Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art, Whitney

Museum

 

Education

BA Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley

 

Bibliography

2014 Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 artists toast Oakland with found objects from hometown, http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/3-artists-toast-Oakland-with-foundobjects-from-5686921.php

2013 Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area visual arts picks, July 4, http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Bay-Area-visual-arts-picks-July-4-4645781.php

2013 Oakland Art Enthusiast, July 2013 Art Murmur and First Friday, http://oaklandartenthusiast.com/2013/07/16/july-2013-art-murmur-and-first-friday/

2011 DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express, Going the Distance at Swarm, Royal NoneSuch, and Mercury 20, http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/going-the-distance-at-swarmroyal-nonesuch-and-mercury-20/Content?oid=2647120

2010 DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express, Tongue & Groove, October https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/kathleen-king-tongue-and-groove/Event?oid=2162287

2010 Mary Eisenhart, 96 Hours SF Chronicle, Don’t Miss, https://mercurytwenty.com/news/jpgs/Frizell_KING.jpg

2006  Tim Buckwalter, Berkeley Monthly, Behind the Scenes: East Bay Open Studios,    http://www.themonthly.com/feature05-06.html

 

As Curator

2016     City in Mind, NIAD Gallery, Richmond, CA

2007     Big Bang, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA, Curated by Kathleen King & Maya Kabat

Exhibitions

Mercury 20 Gallery

475 25th Street, Oakland CA 94612
Tel: 510-701-4620

Gallery hours: Friday + Saturday: 12-5pm and by appt