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Peripheral Dialogues

Artist: Kathleen Kinkopf

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Overview

“Peripheral Dialogues” is a collection of work that explores imagined conversations that exist in a slipstream of altered states between the conscious and unconscious mind. This place of blurred edges offers a stratum of higher truths and possibilities and is where the sense of self, memory, curiosity, and emotions coalesce. While not at the center of it all, these fringe conversations are far from obscure or inert. They are organic, palpable, and woven into the human condition, connecting to self-identity, past lives, nature, mysterious places, or untapped spirituality.

Peripheral dialogues, whether whole or in fragments, live quietly, in the fringes, as possibilities, dreams, resolutions, or imaginary journeys. They can be as light as a butterfly wing or can gnaw at your soul with insatiable voracity. With nature and the female figure at the center of the work, this collection of imaginative visual narratives express harmony, strength, and possibilities. They explore dialogues that exist in the outer landscapes of our minds, connecting divinity with humanity through emotion and unconscious thought. An unspoken, visual language is conveyed through metaphors, symbolism, juxtapositions, and magical thinking.

Bio

Kathleen Kinkopf has been creating since she can remember. She grew up in rural Ohio, immersed in nature and a passion for horses, where she spent many solitary hours creating imaginary worlds of her own. This childhood experience lives deep inside her and continues to influence her other-worldly, magical, and dream-like art today.

She earned a BFA at Miami University/Ohio, and has enjoyed a successful career in the Creative Arts Industry ever since. Her professional experience is in graphic design, illustration, writing, and gallery practice, but now devotes herself to painting full time. She is self-taught, influenced by Masters of the Renaissance, Flemish Masters, and Surrealists. Her work is inspired by nature, mythology, world culture, and the human spirit

Kathleen’s work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group gallery exhibitions nationally and internationally, from Santa Fe to South Korea. Her work is in private as well as public, government, and corporate collections, and has been recognized and awarded by numerous organizations such as American Women Artists, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Albuquerque Museum, The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, The Naples Art Institute, Alliance for the Arts, BIG Arts and has been featured in publications, such as ARTNews, Artist’s Magazine, American Art Collector, Southwest Art Magazine, Gulfshore Life, 100 Artist Studios of the Southwest, Art Horse Magazine, Create!, and Art Seen Magazine. She published her first book, Inhabiting Bliss, in 2021.

After 2 decades in New Mexico, Kathleen relocated her home and studio to SW Florida.

For more detailed information about Kathleen’s exhibition history and recognitions, please visit kinkopfstudios.com.