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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

The female figure, animals, and nature are central to Kathleen’s work. They are knitted together into the landscape as co-protectors and kindred spirits. These powerful players create scenarios of unlimited possibilities that express metaphors of spirituality, strength, grace, and the human condition. Laced with symbolism and emotion, they take the viewer to distant lands in the imagination. Often called ‘Magical Realism’, her work connects the literal world to one filled with magic and wonder, offering illusions of the unexpected and filled juxtapositions and metaphors that evoke manifestations of a higher conscious and spiritual awakening — a sort of magical thinking.

Kathleen’s visual narratives explore the human psyche, influenced by mythology, folklore, psychology, philosophy, and poetry. Kathleen’s inspiration derives from self-study of the Masters of the Renaissance, Byzantine iconography, world culture and traditions, philosophy, and readings about dreams, nature, and spirituality.

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, public, and corporate collections, and has been recognized by organizations such as American Women Artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Albuquerque Museum, Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, numerous Art Centers, and featured in publications, such as ARTNews, Artist’s Magazine, American Art Collector, Best of Acrylics, Southwest Art, 100 Artists’ Studios of the Southwest, Create!, and Gulfshore Life, to name a few. She published her first book, Inhabiting Bliss, in 2021.