Steph Toth Kates
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In my current work, I am creating body mythologies. Throughout time, humans have invented mythological stories in an attempt to make sense of the vast world around us. My paintings also seek to do this, but on a more intimate level. They are interior landscapes - depictions of the creation of a fingerprint or the birth of a lake of blood vessels. I am exploring ideas of the body as a universe and a home. Inhabiting this inner expanse are animals familiar from children's storybooks, cells, veins and neurons lifted from medical diagrams, and insects and plants drawn from our backyards. In the tradition of Greek pottery painting, I capture my stories in the midst of unfolding. The paintings speak of creation and processes and growth.
I received my BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with an emphasis in painting and printmaking. While living in Pittsburgh I participated in several group shows, including Carnegie Mellon's Meeting of the Minds at the UC Gallery and BioTraces a two-person show at the Frame Gallery. I was awarded a Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research Grant for my project - Human: fragility inviolate.
In Kansas City, my work has been shown at the Zone Gallery, the Kansas City Library, the Secret Gallery, and the Kansas City Artists Coalition's Underground Gallery.
—Steph Toth Kates
Steph Toth Kates, Yellow Hill
Steph Toth Kates
Yellow Hill
24x36
Oil on Canvas
For more information, please contact the artist at steph@lunarium.com or visit www.lunarium.com/steph
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