Kate Temple
Kate Temple is a multi-media artist utilizing painting, drawing, filmmaking and ceramics. Her projects develop out of an open conversation with external phenomena and are fueled by memories of ritual, divination and the secret luminosity of color and form. Projects use diverse materials such as handmade paint from collected substances, local roadside plants, soil, flowers, gold, beeswax, recorded sound and language. Her practice is an attempt to make connections between nature and human culture compelling, visible, and deeply felt. Kate was born in Verdun, France in 1966 and grew up in the countryside of New Hampshire. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design (1984), at Carnegie Mellon (1988). In 1995 she moved to Manhattan to work at the Lower East Side Printshop. Major works include the Breathing Series (2001), created at the LES Printshop and the Center For Book Arts, Remedy for Winter Listlessness (2007) site-specific installation, at the Mattress Factory, Pgh, and site specific installations in Puglia, Italy, Cappodoccia, Turkey and a commission for the Luminaria festival in San Antonio, TX. She has exhibited throughout the US and internationally, recently exhibiting an installation of drawing, clay forms and sound at the Ionian Center for the Arts in Kefalonia, Greece in 2023 called You/Me:Kefalonia. Her drawings have been included in recent exhibitions at the 2023 De Young OPEN in San Francisco, the Drawing Rooms in NJ, and at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes in 2025. She exhibited the recent site-specific installation You/Me: Alyki at the Center for Cycladic Arts in Paros, Greece in 2024 and is currently finishing a performative video exploring divination practices and communication with elemental forces created in both Paros, Greece and Northern California coastal sites. She is the Director of Education at Artists Space in NYC and lives between NYC and the Bay Area
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