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   The Animals I Sleep With, No. 1, for Liz   2015 oil on theater muslin 66 x 106 inches

KATE JAVENS

Marcia Wood Gallery is delighted to announce the highly anticipated fourth Atlanta exhibition by Kate Javens. Javens is renowned for her exquisite and haunting paintings of animals that are chosen to represent and honor people in history who lived altruistic and progressive lives.

This work celebrates the creatures that have inspired Javens throughout her career. It also gives a deep bow to Charles Wilson Peale, natural historian, painter, educator and a truly curious and complicated man. He was the founder of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the first art museum and art school in America. He also founded Peale’s American Museum, a natural history museum with a wild (and short) history of excavation and exhibition, mastadons included.

The artist writes: "In all the years I’ve taken liberties with animal forms I’ve paid little tribute to their introduction, how they come to me, which is often in my sleep. Your dreams are boring to everyone but you, mine included—but, man, they’ve been great to me. I’ve been visited by creatures who’ve shown me all around my strange world. I’m objective by nature, even lazy spiritually, so I’m shocked and grateful when they appear. Every visit is a gift, and when I wake up I know I need to bow and think “thank you for coming.
To introduce them, I’m using Peale’s drapery from “The Artist in his Museum”, to separate the conscious from the subconscious. Ahh, the PAFA legacy, direct line, so beautiful—as someone who was taught by someone who was taught on down to Charles Wilson Peale, I finally feel the grace…."

Kate Javen’s paintings in oil are stunning both for the breathtaking beauty of her brushstroke as well as for their passionate moral intensity. In a painting style that synthesizes an Old Masters clarity of light with a basis in American naturalism and realism, Javens connects with the viewer by an empathy to her subjects – paintings of animals that are named for, and in fact stand as metaphorical portraits of, figures in American history; persons who represent to Javens an altruism and social activism that deserve to be commemorated. The animal subjects of Javens’ paintings embody to her the inner qualities and essence of the human historical figures that she honors, suggesting that it is not so much the image, but rather the quality of these persons for which they should be remembered.

Kate Javens was born in Missouri and spent her childhood in Japan, Mexico, and the bicoastal United States. She attended the Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Javens is a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Painting Fellow, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts Disciplinary Winner in Painting, and a three-time MacDowell Fellow. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, the Palmer Museum of Art, the Telfair Museum of Art, the Blanden Museum of Art and the Connecticut College Print Collection. She has had solo exhibitions at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Iowa, the Princeton University Bernstein Gallery, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, the Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, and the Sarah Morthland Gallery in New York City. Her group exhibitions include the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, the North Dakota Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anna Kustera Gallery in New York City, the Abington Art Center in Philadelphia, Billy Shire Fine Art in Los Angeles, DFN Gallery in New York City and the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut. She lives and works in Harlem, New York City.

KATE JAVENS

Marcia Wood Gallery is delighted to announce the highly anticipated fourth Atlanta exhibition by Kate Javens. Javens is renowned for her exquisite and haunting paintings of animals that are chosen to represent and honor people in history who lived altruistic and progressive lives.

This work celebrates the creatures that have inspired Javens throughout her career. It also gives a deep bow to Charles Wilson Peale, natural historian, painter, educator and a truly curious and complicated man. He was the founder of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the first art museum and art school in America. He also founded Peale’s American Museum, a natural history museum with a wild (and short) history of excavation and exhibition, mastadons included.

The artist writes: "In all the years I’ve taken liberties with animal forms I’ve paid little tribute to their introduction, how they come to me, which is often in my sleep. Your dreams are boring to everyone but you, mine included—but, man, they’ve been great to me. I’ve been visited by creatures who’ve shown me all around my strange world. I’m objective by nature, even lazy spiritually, so I’m shocked and grateful when they appear. Every visit is a gift, and when I wake up I know I need to bow and think “thank you for coming.
To introduce them, I’m using Peale’s drapery from “The Artist in his Museum”, to separate the conscious from the subconscious. Ahh, the PAFA legacy, direct line, so beautiful—as someone who was taught by someone who was taught on down to Charles Wilson Peale, I finally feel the grace…."

Kate Javen’s paintings in oil are stunning both for the breathtaking beauty of her brushstroke as well as for their passionate moral intensity. In a painting style that synthesizes an Old Masters clarity of light with a basis in American naturalism and realism, Javens connects with the viewer by an empathy to her subjects – paintings of animals that are named for, and in fact stand as metaphorical portraits of, figures in American history; persons who represent to Javens an altruism and social activism that deserve to be commemorated. The animal subjects of Javens’ paintings embody to her the inner qualities and essence of the human historical figures that she honors, suggesting that it is not so much the image, but rather the quality of these persons for which they should be remembered.

Kate Javens was born in Missouri and spent her childhood in Japan, Mexico, and the bicoastal United States. She attended the Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Javens is a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Painting Fellow, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts Disciplinary Winner in Painting, and a three-time MacDowell Fellow. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, the Palmer Museum of Art, the Telfair Museum of Art, the Blanden Museum of Art and the Connecticut College Print Collection. She has had solo exhibitions at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Iowa, the Princeton University Bernstein Gallery, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, the Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, and the Sarah Morthland Gallery in New York City. Her group exhibitions include the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, the North Dakota Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anna Kustera Gallery in New York City, the Abington Art Center in Philadelphia, Billy Shire Fine Art in Los Angeles, DFN Gallery in New York City and the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut. She lives and works in Harlem, New York City.

   The Animals I Sleep With, No. 1, for Liz   2015 oil on theater muslin 66 x 106 inches

The Animals I Sleep With, No. 1, for Liz
2015
oil on theater muslin
66 x 106 inches

   The Animals I Sleep With, the Rabbit    2015 oil on birch panel 18 x 24 inches   

The Animals I Sleep With, the Rabbit
2015
oil on birch panel
18 x 24 inches

 

   The Animals I Sleep With, the Lamb, for the Rev   2015 oil on linen 40 x 30 inches

The Animals I Sleep With, the Lamb, for the Rev
2015
oil on linen
40 x 30 inches

   The Animals I Sleep With, the Fish    2015 oil on wood panel 20 x 14 

The Animals I Sleep With, the Fish
2015
oil on wood panel
20 x 14 

   The Animals I Sleep With, the Goat    2015 oil on wood panel 16 x 12 inches

The Animals I Sleep With, the Goat
2015
oil on wood panel
16 x 12 inches

   The Animals I Sleep With, the Elephant    2015 oil on wood panel 16 x 12 inches

The Animals I Sleep With, the Elephant
2015
oil on wood panel
16 x 12 inches

   The Animals I Sleep with, the Bear    2015 oil on theater muslin 66 x 106 inches

The Animals I Sleep with, the Bear
2015
oil on theater muslin
66 x 106 inches

   The Animals I Sleep with, No. 3, for the Rev   2015 oil on wood panel 18 x 24 inches

The Animals I Sleep with, No. 3, for the Rev
2015
oil on wood panel
18 x 24 inches

   Lucky   2011 oil on linen on panel 10 x 10 inches

Lucky
2011
oil on linen on panel
10 x 10 inches

   Pink Lamb    2011 oil on linen on panel 10 x 10 inches

Pink Lamb
2011
oil on linen on panel
10 x 10 inches

   Red Lamb    2011 oil on linen on panel 11 x 14 inches

Red Lamb
2011
oil on linen on panel
11 x 14 inches

   Yellow Wolf    2011 oil on linen on panel 11 x 14 inches

Yellow Wolf
2011
oil on linen on panel
11 x 14 inches

   For the Wolves, the Lambs, and the Rev    2011 oil on theater muslin 66 x 106 inches

For the Wolves, the Lambs, and the Rev
2011
oil on theater muslin
66 x 106 inches

   Blue Wolf    2011 oil on hardwood panel 16 x 16 inches

Blue Wolf
2011
oil on hardwood panel
16 x 16 inches

   The Lamb    2011 oil on archival composite panel 16 x 20 inches

The Lamb
2011
oil on archival composite panel
16 x 20 inches

   The Wolf    2011 oil on archival composite panel 16 x 20 inches

The Wolf
2011
oil on archival composite panel
16 x 20 inches

   Father Ram    2006 oil on theater muslim 66 x 106 inches

Father Ram
2006
oil on theater muslim
66 x 106 inches

   Red Wolf    2011 oil on hardwood panel 16 x 16 inches

Red Wolf
2011
oil on hardwood panel
16 x 16 inches

   Father Ram 2    2007 oil on linen 9 x 10 inches

Father Ram 2
2007
oil on linen
9 x 10 inches

   Named for Andrew Furuseth    18 x 34 inches

Named for Andrew Furuseth
18 x 34 inches

   Learned Hand   28 x 40 inches  

Learned Hand
28 x 40 inches
 

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