What is a person’s reality and how did they arrive at this way of thinking? Everything we do and where we go makes who we are.
Kate Brogdon examines the degrees in which people create their realities through the frame of her experience. Kate is interested in people’s points of view: hers and others. How are we shaped by others while we also alter our world? She explores found items and multiple images in various media to capture my memory of the environment as the idea of how our worldview evolves and how we see things very differently at different times.

Combining images in different ways is how Kate approaches this way of “multiple seeing,” in the idea of capturing fragments or nuances in perception. Visual combinations create shades of meaning and often results in fortuitous juxtapositions and interesting unplanned mixtures, along with changes and bits left over as part of the evolution of thought in the span of the work. In these layers of visuals, she aspires to create layers of meaning to describe the complexities of the world. This also creates interest both from a distance and up close, with small details to be revealed in each examination.

“A walk by a river” springs from her connection to and concern for the natural world. The nymphs personify her realization of the benefits we gain from a clean and abundant natural environment. This was highlighted for her by my difficulties in basic functioning while living in a deeply degraded environment. While water doesn’t appear in each image, it is always near and it always defines the environment, even in the desert.

“Space between trees” illustrates her connection to various environments by evoking the experience of wandering through nature as translated through the layered tests of her sketchbook. Imagery is from a range of rivers, mixing continents and media.

Show Dates: June 7 - August 5
Receptions: June 8, 6 pm - 9 pm