December 2 - January 6, 2024
From Ro2 Art:
“Ro2 Art is excited to present MESSENGERS, an exhibition of new sculptures by Kathryn Bagwell. The exhibition will open December 2, 2023 and remain on view through January 6, 2024, at Ro2 Art Gallery, located at 2606 Bataan St., Dallas, TX, with an opening reception to be held December 2 from 7-10pm. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
With MESSENGERS, Kathryn Bagwell takes inspiration from her musical studies by creating a sense of synaesthesia. Her improvisational style is evident in this ambitious new exhibition. Drawn from her love of ancient art, Bagwell explores two mediums: life-sized figurative sculptures made from mahogany and paintings in oil on canvas. Bagwell artfully blends the engagement of earth and sky, life and death, you and I. In MESSENGERS, she explores the spiritual interconnectedness among all things.
Like a blanket that covers the earth, we are all woven in a shared seam. Her works braid human vulnerability, a celebration of the living, and the deep existential pain of loss into a universal exploration of shared experiences with the beauty of simply being human.
Kathryn Bagwell’s work finely brushes the ancient past using anthropomorphic lines that stretch into humanity’s past and present day civilizations, yet keeping an awareness that there will be civilizations in the future. By juxtaposing these lines with geometric emblems, she creates a metaphor for shared human experience. She states, “The miracle of life is present in all things,” an ode to everything in the past and everything that will become. MESSENGERS reminds us of the universal human connection and provides an opportunity to express both the respect as well as the comicality that exist in each and every one of us.
Kathryn Bagwell’s paintings and sculptural works depict both women and men in a broad figurative style ranging from cubist to expressionism and realism. Based in Texas, Bagwell’s portfolio is influenced by her professional experience and education as a musician, her love for ancient art, and her interest in the dualities of the human being.”
2606 Bataan Street
Dallas, 75212 Texas
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