NIKI KETCHMAN
ARTIST BIO
One-person museum exhibitions of my work have been at the Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA. Group museum exhibitions of my have been at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, The Bruce Museum,Greenwich, CT, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, The Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY, and The Fairfield University Art Museum.
Gallery exhibitions include four one-person shows and numerous group shows at the Kouros Gallery, NYC from 1993 to 2004. The Cortland Jessup Gallery,Provincetown, MA, the Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT and the Gallery New World, Dusseldorf, Germany are other galleries in which I have had one-person shows.
Reviews of my work have appeared in The New York Times, Art in America,Sculpture Magazine, The Boston Globe, Art New England, The Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Arts Magazine and the Journal News. Essays about my work appear in museum catalogs of museums where I have exhibited.
My work is in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, CUNY at Staten Island, NY, Westport, School System and the Westport Historical Society, Westport, CT, several corporate collections and many private collections
My education and teaching experience include earning an MA in Fine Arts from Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ in 1976, after a BA in Fine Arts,Cum Laude, from Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ. I taught as an adjunct instructor at Sacred Heart University, Bridgeport, CT from 1978 through 1981 and at Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT from 1977 through 1979.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The methods by which I make sculptures include welding, sewing, weaving, braiding, winding, draping and decorating. Ideas about what comprises "women's work" and questions of where Art, function, craft and design intersect are on my mind. Most of my sculptures are composed of a combination of industrial and domestic materials. Others are all soft. Some are appropriate for outdoor use, some for indoor use only and some can be used either indoors or out. Most recently I have been incorporating ink jet prints into the surfaces of my sculptures. I often work on a number of pieces that are part of a series. Two of my ongoing series are Sculpture for Home Use and the Rose Series.
Although sometimes humorous, my sculptures, digital prints, drawings and collages make allusions to such issues as the passage of time, the digital age or gender roles. The boundaries between sculptures, toys and furniture are sometimes blurred. Many of my sculptures are interactive, but not necessarily functional in a traditional sense. Some of the sculptures can be sat on, leaned against, walked through or walked into. In this way the visitor experiences the work physically as well as visually.
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