Katherine Porter

For persons of a similar name, see Katherine Porter (disambiguation).

Katherine Porter (1941 or 1944 – April 22, 2024) was an American visual artist. Porter is considered one of the most important contemporary artists associated with Maine.[1] She resisted categorization.[2][3] Through the medium of painting and drawing her canvases convey the conflict inherent in life.[promotion?] She expressed her ideas with a visual vocabulary that was "geometric and gestural, abstract and figurative, decorative and raw, lyric and muscular."[1]

Porter was shown twice in the Whitney Biennial and had solo exhibitions at the Knoedler Gallery in London, the Nina Nielsen Gallery in Boston, and the Andre Emmerich and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. Her work was added to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[4] Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Tel Aviv Museum in Jerusalem.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b Moss, Stacey (1991). Katherine Porter: Paintings/Drawings. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ISBN 9780916606213. OCLC 24155211.
  2. ^ Larson, Kay (February 2, 1987). "Guerilla Tactics". New York. Vol. 20, no. 5. pp. 54–55. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
  3. ^ Russell, John (February 27, 1981). "Art: Juicy Abstractions by Katherine Porter". The New York Times. p. C18. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
  4. ^ Rewald, Sabine (Fall 1990). "New York Number" (PDF). Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 48 (2): 76. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 31, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  5. ^ "Katherine Porter". Vermont Studio Center. Archived from the original on December 24, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
  6. ^ "Katherine Porter". Arthur S. Goldberg Collection at Northeastern University Library. Archived from the original on August 24, 2014.