Photographs, collage and acrylic on canvas, 2024. 914x609 mm; 36x24 inches. Signed in ink, stretcher bar.
Provenance: collection of the artist.
When Worlds Collide is a recent photo-collage from Kate Fauvell, who, as a native New Yorker, documents changes in New York, its people and networks. Both a photographer and painter, she melds the two mediums to articulate her visual language.
By tearing photos, Fauvell's fragmentation depicts how she sees our world systems—messy and broken. "I break down existing structures and create new compositions. The physical act of my ripping up the photos alludes to the systemic issues pulling apart our society.'" Using photos of broken structures to rebuild our country, she makes new worlds that seek systemic justice and redefine beauty. I draw inspiration from those who came before me.
After attaining an MFA in 2004 from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a BFA from Binghamton University in 2002. Kate has been included in group exhibitions at BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY, and solo exhibitions at Rush Arts Gallery, NY, and Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton University. Fauvell has received grants and residencies, including the Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient, and the Rauschenberg Foundation Grant Recipient. Bio courtesy of the artist's website.
Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
