Kate Gilmore has issues. In a good way.
Starting out as a sculptor and painter, she turned to using the strategies of performance and video. Watch her Cool Cleveland interview here.
“The work I was making wasn’t dynamic enough… I was interested in the chaos of the studio, and getting the humor out, and being witty, but also being smart and funny…”
Offering a refreshing perspective on macho action painters such as Jackson Pollock, Gilmore videotapes herself in a dress and high heels smashing pots of latex paint in a constructed tableaux, displaying the results alongside the video. “There is a feminist conversation with the work.”
Her one-woman show, “Kate Gilmore: Body of Work” is on display through Sun 6/9/13.
“Kate Gilmore: Body of Work” is part of the year-long city-wide celebration Present and Accounted, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Cleveland Performance Art Festival (1988-99), which includes performance art activity throughout 2013 at venues such as MOCA, SPACES, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Oberlin College and others. http://www.PresentAndAccounted.org