March 8 - April 19, 2025
From Liliana Bloch Gallery:
“Kathy Lovas’s current and ongoing project titled The Brainerd Album examines a group of images appropriated from an early 20th-century photo album kept by her grandparents, who lived in Brainerd, MN. Printed monochromatically via the DASS inkjet transfer process onto glass, the works are expressive of ideas about memory, ephemerality, surface tension, and references to early photographic processes, such as glass negatives and Cyanotype. The original album of 30 pages contains approximately 100 2×3″ silver gelatin photographs taken by her uncle Thomas Walter Cleary of his immediate family, plus friends, pets, and significant buildings, such as the family home and neighborhood school. The glass prints are each presented leaning against a wall on a small support shelf to emphasize the work’s ‘object-ness’ and fragility. A blank manila tag speaks to her ongoing interest in the idea of the archive.
The Brainerd Album project advances her career-long investigation into the ontology of photography. Freely moving between photography, sculpture, and installation, Lovas’s projects are based on narratives about current or historical events, memories from her early life, or familiar subject matter. All her projects examine photographic indexicality, the archive, and the frame.
Kathy Lovas was born in Duluth, Minnesota. She holds a B.S. degree in biology from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana and an MFA in photography from Texas Woman’s University in Denton. She is a 1995 recipient of a Mid-America Arts Alliance National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in photography and was a 1991 fellow of the American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar at New York University.
Selected exhibitions of her work include Lawndale Art Center, Galveston Art Center, Women and Their Work, Handley-Hicks Gallery, Fort Worth and Old Jail Art Center. In 2018, Lovas had a mid-career retrospective exhibition titled Close-Up-Magic at Gallery 219 at Eastfield College in Dallas, Texas, curated by Iris Bechtol. She has been a resident artist at Project Row Houses in Houston, Connemara Conservancy in Allen, TX and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. She recently created site-specific installations at UNT on the Square in Denton, DiverseWorks, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Arlington Museum of Art, UT San Antonio Satellite Space at Blue Star, and the Warehouse Theater in Greenville, SC.
Kathy’s work is included in the following collections: Capital One, Dallas, TX; PINHOLE Resource, San Lorenzo, NM; TRISOLINI Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH, and The Willis Library at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. Kathy Lovas lives and works in Dallas, Texas.”
Reception: March 8, 2025 | 5–7 pm
Liliana Bloch (Memphis Street)
4741 Memphis Street
Dallas, 75207 Texas
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