Trudy Kraft:
Terma Zones: February 22 - March 21, 2008

Trudy Kraft

Education

1976B.A., Hamilton College; art major
1976-79Arts Students League, New York, N.Y.
1974, 1978Residency, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona Solo Exhibitions

2008 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
2005 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
2004 Sueno, Telluride, Co.
2004 Show of Hands, Philadelphia, Pa.
2003 Waco Art Center, Waco Tex.
2003 Kemp Center for the Arts, Wichita Falls, Tex.
2000 Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Tex.
1999 Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo,Tex.
1994 Axis Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, La.
1991 Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, Pa.
1984 Oni Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1980 Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Tex. Awards

1993 Finalist, Pew Fellowships in the Arts Disciplinary
1992,1993,1994 Award, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pa.
1990 Award, Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Group Exhibitions

2003 Main Line Art Center, Haverford,Pa. lnDepth, Jurors: Maida Milone, Bill Scott
2003 Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, Pa. 61 Annual Awards Painting Exhibition juror: Dr. Nancy Heller
2002 Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, Md., September Gallery Artists
2001 The Community Arts Center, Wallingford, Pa.,Abstract
2001 lan Peck Fine Paintings, New York, N.Y., Hamilton Makes Art
2000 Main Line Art Center, Haverford,Pa., Multiplies juror: Susan Rosenberg
1999 The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa., Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘99 juror: James Mahoney
1998 The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, N.J., Transcending the Surface
1998 Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pa., Works on Paper juror: Anne R. Fabbri
1996 Gallery of the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia Artists for the Homeless
1995 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, De., Return to Beauty curator: Anna Franis
1995 Attic Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa., Women’s Caucus for Art juror: Dr. Ofelia Garcia
1994 Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J., National Works on Paper jurors: Faith Ringgold, Elisabeth Sussman
1994 Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pa., Color Now juror: Laura Rosenstock
1993 Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, N.J.
1990 Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan
1990 Mitsukoshi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1990 Facades Imaginaires, Grenoble, France
1987 Cooper-Hewitt Museum Shop, New York, N.Y
1985 American Art for the Tea Ceremony, Duxbury, Mass.
1984 Mercer County College, Mercer, N.J.
1981 American Club, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.
1979 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y.
Selected Collections

Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Tex.
Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Corporation, Wilmington, De.
Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Beneficial Life Insurance, Wilmington, De.
Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoof, Rosen & Quentel, Washington, D.C.
Hackensack Medical Center, Hackensack, N.J.
Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ronald McDonald House, Philadelphia, Pa.’
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Tex.
Women’s Health Research Institute, Texas Tech University, Amarillo, Tex.
The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, Amarillo, Tex.
Robert M. Rogers Hospice Center, Tyler, Tex.
Selected Bibliography

Chapin, Courtney. “Transcending the Surface.” Town Topics July 15, 1998, p.3.
Frances, Anna. “Trudy Kraft.” Art Matters April 1994, p.3.
Fallon, Roberta. “Kraft Work.” Philadelphia Weekly January 21, 2004, p.29.
lngals, Hunter. “Kraft Feeds Visual Hunger.” Amarillo Sunday News-Globe November 14, 1999, p.17.
Larmoth, Jeanie. “Second Wind for the Fan.” Town and Country vol.141(June 1987),p.164.
Louie, Elaine. “Home Beat.” The New York Times Feb. 26, 1987, p.C3.
Rice, Robin, “Kraft Works.” City Paper March 18-25, 1994, p.22.
Rosen, Jennifer. ‘World Travel Influences Artist’s Style.” Main Line Life Junel, 1995, p.13.
Saint-Gilles, Amaury. “Art: People and Places.” Mainichi Daily News May 22, 1982, p.9.
Sozanski, Edward J., " Looking Eastward," June 10, 2005
Artist Statement

The technique used for my paintings is a combination of water- color, sumi ink, gouache, and frisket. Usually I begin with water-color, freely painted. I then create a second dimension of pattern by masking the surface with frisket. Additional structure emerges through the application of sumi ink. Finally, I use gouache to augment and adorn, until I have achieved the desired effect.
My paintings begin with a visual idea or feeling. I find that the first versions of a particular idea generate their own variations organically, so one piece builds upon another. Thus, early paintings in a particular series become important sources for the paintings that follow.
I regard my paintings as a physical expression of the underlying interconnectedness of all things. Sometimes I feel as if I am making visible the hidden structures that lie just beyond ordinary perception. As a visual artist, I am conscious of a paradox: if there is a beauty that transcends the senses, our only access to it is through the senses.
As I build my images, I am aware of my indebtedness to a wide range of cultural traditions. In Japan I was exposed to time-honored, sophisticated uses of the decorative arts. African masks, textiles, and baskets have sensitized me to the interaction of pattern, surface, and texture. I am emboldened by the luminosity of color in Thai silks and Indian embroidery.
I have also been visually and technically inspired by Aboriginal "dream paintings," which demonstrate the abiding significance of content even in decorative abstraction. These and other multicultural influences, which I embrace as part of our common planetary heritage, continue to nourish my work in conscious and unconscious ways.
Trudy Kraft