https://www.kristinbethpowers.com/work-forte daily 0.75 2024-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653280924356-7O61CD524SZBH2JJPTIM/KbPowers_Moment_2022_03.jpeg Work - Moment 2022 - Digital Photography, Pronto and Woodblock Prints, Acetate Transfers, Wrapping Paper, Upholstery Nails https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653302650275-81L5BWA2NOXFLVJ38OJ7/05KbPowers_InWartime.JPG Work - The Art of Language Working with glass and poetry, I ruminate on the efficacy of words, the distortion of language, the randomness of understanding, and the never-ending misdiagnoses of communication. Disruption interests me in the process of transforming the way we see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1662742291801-FSEU53A6B1HCHHU1K2EM/14.jpg Work - Eva Zeisel Tile Design - Sketch Up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653540143742-WGWN5PVE4K6R5HLC5LUM/KbPowers_Countenance.jpg Work - Countenance on the Art of Storytelling Ceramic, Steel, Stool, Books 24” x 52” x 18” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1667076130834-C10QWIBNPFKEQY9O28R2/My+biography+lecture.133.jpeg Work - Life Studies for Ceramic Abstraction https://www.kristinbethpowers.com/projects daily 1.0 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/0b2831ee-6809-452f-a004-0f6f6f40c0bb/ADA01F3A-BD29-4FFD-9DDB-7F16DF6BF75A.jpeg Installations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653284874175-SM2IIWQV5KVUOT25R7I5/IMG_2194.jpeg Installations - Lost Shoes Representing these Covid years of isolation, loss and death, and abandonment, but also togetherness in a pile of chaos. It was here, in resonance with Jenny’s large feet, that the lost shoes found their home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653537936322-CV0INSRA83SXAORHJP7P/image.jpg Installations - Separation Entwined Public Sculpture - Hand-built Ceramic, Chain, Rope – Massachusetts College of Art & Design, 2021-2022. Movement of colour within no colour. Drawn to touch, to look closely, to engage, to love, complementary and intimate, yet separated and chained. This is a visual for my sense of language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653296429481-Y7FL7RJWKYM2RGTW6SXX/5B5C846B-AD76-4D41-B68C-D14D0BCC83B4.jpg Installations - Oneira A dreamlike state. 2022 - Gleaned Objects, White Paint, Braided Rope Eerie complex concepts occupy this hanging bedroom, a dream caught in time, on display, perhaps uncomfortable. The one space I assume to be my space, my time, the one place where comfort and rest can find me. But here I am ungrounded, where thoughts and anxieties tumble through my head and destabilization settles in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653542843848-8ZY3VACY3PFKWKV5VYXM/LifeinLayers+Study2.JPG Installations - Life in Layers Engaging a sense of the etherial, Life in Layers is a spatial Installation incorporating Photography, Light, Projection, Sound, Poetry, Drawings, Letters, Autobiographical and Found Objects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653283087993-UY0IZ3M20B5GNRD6C0MV/IMG_2324.jpeg Installations - there's a hole in my heart where the wind blows through This space, created site-specifically for the MassArt gallery at SoWa, holds important elements that compose the anchors of ephemerality. It is an invitation for the viewer to enter the space where objects are easy to define – mostly familiar, yet disquieting in their stillness, imbalance, and silence. I look for connections to the familiar, but pull the rug out from under it. I glean household objects sitting in your basement: a chair, a spoon, a ladder, a bicycle wheel. Distilling memories of loss and grief, white becomes a means to find anonymity within which to mourn. I think about the engineering of balance and interdependency where the connections of small and big objects hold each other up, entwined, leaning, and supporting. You enter the house and find corks, glasses, ping pong balls, utensils, multiplicities - expressing a number from 0 to infinity – a notion of the extent of time crucial when adjacent to the notion of space. Time, space, multiples, cadence, and rhythm. Viewers can follow this rhythm on their own. You can find tension in the stack of chairs, then end up in the wheel, which could be a clock – and in some sort of harmonic chaos everything is turning in space and time, yet a stillness, a peace, a quiet, pervades the experience and you may find yourself trying to revisit the same event over and over again My spaces become less about the objects but more about the juxtapositions between the elements and how or where they touch, and what they hold up or prevent a fall. Every person can see it in their own way. A professor of mine said this piece is like finding yourself “Frozen in time - like going into Miss Havisham's room in Great Expectations.” But also movement, very subtle, in and out of focus, where things appear and disappear, so the story becomes complicated, frozen in time, yet moving in time. I have long thought in this manner of set design, or experiential immersion, and to be equated to it is a privilege. All the objects are intentionally balanced, engineering gravity, set in precarious situations, with exception of one stationary conventional scene - a mirror and a coat rack These two elements allow one to feel ok, maybe I can be here, this I know. This is an invitation, to either enter, or leave in peace, having seen yourself, in the so very ordinary hallway. We can look at ourselves in the mirror, and exit the house, and step out onto the street for whatever the next moment brings. Time and language - telephones, journals, old books, new books, and modern signage. A little scooter creates a reality for some, the embrace known, yearned for, and the fear of being enveloped and consumed. Things are not moving but at the same time they are. in communication. There is a quietness, handwritten on the surface that condenses and disappears. There are tipping moments, and a logic needed to grasp. It is not only my logic, it is yours too. the details are all familiar, stretched on a hammock between language and rhythm. My heart is racing. What is this chaos about, is it my chaos? is it your chaos? is it a stillness between us? Do we contain within ourselves both opaque and reflective surfaces? Is there a border between chaos and order? Does it reflect instability and preparedness, with such care and calculation otherwise it would fall apart? It is here, in the current of today’s struggles, of my struggles, where I have discovered the core of my work to lie. Where I try to compose a visual way to depict my own internal space, emotions, and questions, in light of the ordinary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653285661547-EV3ZJIS2X9VIX2RE2PPW/Powers_WhatDoesSilenceLookLikePerchedonTopoftheWhiteWall_2022_00_18x28x8.jpeg Installations - Blowing Glass Found Radiator and Blown Glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653288804026-TP4V8GRCHH43O7HH26EB/IMG_0286.jpeg Installations - Falling Sculptural Installation – Fabric, Found Objects, Animation, Sound, Language https://vimeo.com/663820734 https://vimeo.com/663820734 https://vimeo.com/663820328 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653302943679-LRCEJ0WLI0JY640W9AYH/KbPowers_SilenceAloneDetail1.jpeg Installations - silence whispers alone Sculptural Installation – Fabric, Animation, Sound https://vimeo.com/663837372 https://vimeo.com/663837234 https://vimeo.com/664452234 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653539011275-GYIZTYPF06FGG2B8VWZW/19+Mock-up+of+Public+Sculpture+in+Olmstead+Park.jpg Installations - Sculpture in the Park Mock-Up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/12d11ac0-7548-45c1-9161-f061807d56e1/KbPowersIterationsofaLandscapeBeach2021.jpg Installations - Beach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1676606027829-SOJOHIRL16EPS4F1NRC4/KbPowers_ThreeDimensionalPoemBWBoots_2020.jpeg Installations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/1653542059907-V3F2471HZRA9Z3M7M9MW/Identity+in+communication.JPG Installations - Identities Coil Built Ceramics https://www.kristinbethpowers.com/curatorial-1 daily 0.75 2022-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/fa641de9-f9dc-4cb3-973c-1b66e942a34d/IMG_5065+2.jpeg Curatorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/f0fc939b-7a70-4026-a40b-4e5265df6cd4/IMG_5111+3.jpeg Curatorial - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/13c40887-e029-4505-b554-8deffa7d03a1/IMG_5062+2.jpeg Curatorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/abd148f0-c168-4c04-8fe3-a42db55a4cba/IMG_5068.jpeg Curatorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/f8d0df40-9e88-4b83-b151-60435ec8577d/IMG_5106.jpeg Curatorial - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/5700da54-05ae-4f40-a7eb-3d42f5127aa5/Elemental-StudioArtManagerExhibit.jpg Curatorial - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/99523d30-0060-427c-aa84-49f5314d739b/IMG_5107.jpeg Curatorial - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/a5b87ebf-d141-4f8b-82f4-fcc74834a836/IMG_4698.jpg Curatorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/9b929374-01d6-49ab-a2bb-070802eee883/IMG_4584.jpg Curatorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/793df1d1-ceac-49e1-98dc-1b34863a606f/IMG_5081.jpg Curatorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/21c18b4b-4fb0-4259-b12a-7bcb6c91d55b/IMG_5088.jpg Curatorial - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/efde575b-1e4e-4a12-ada1-0059002aef8e/IMG_4649.jpg Curatorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/82754a90-04ec-48d1-add2-6379e445ad0e/IMG_4709.jpg Curatorial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/28603925-a68e-4665-8615-eeaa20cce610/IMG_4602.jpg Curatorial - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/71f51201-0da4-4112-ade8-37292c4f57f0/Screen+Shot+2022-09-12+at+2.52.32+PM.png Curatorial - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/f20583d8-346e-4716-acc9-cdb44ac4c4b5/IMG_4707.jpeg Curatorial https://www.kristinbethpowers.com/bio daily 0.75 2023-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca387ea90f904f0d7d1a21e/4ad53852-8ed3-4917-9155-95a9aa1030ed/me1b.jpg Bio - “One has to learn not to take oneself too seriously, not to overly respect one’s designs. 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