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About The Art<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Kathy Bennett Dove's latest pursuit is photography paired with writing. A View Askew along the Intracoastal Waterway <\/em>includes 400 pictures. <\/em>Two poetry \u00a0books, Air Dance <\/em>and Wandering Around Thoughts <\/em>amplify each poem with pictures and will be available soon.. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Her photography is noted for attention to detail, with an eye for design, color, and texture, which shows in her unique images often resulting in an abstract appearance. Colors that were already present may be computer-enhanced and treated with techniques common in a dark room, but photos are not otherwise created by altering or layering, i.e. \u201cPhotoshopped\u201d--yet .<\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy\u2019s fabric sculptures and photographs have been nationally and internationally juried and featured extensively in on-line galleries. Her work has been awarded numerous prizes and hung in art galleries, museums, restaurants, and art league shows. Her biggest solo show at Paul's in Annapolis displayed fifty two photos. Newspapers in Maryland and Florida have highlighted her photographs in shows, and some photographs have been published in major magazines to illustrate her husband\u2019s stories. Tom (www.tomdove.com<\/a>) is a boating journalist.<\/p>\n

Kathy's Fabric Sculpture<\/p>\n

When Kathy created her first fabric wall sculptures with Japanese Obi (kimono sashes) and assemblage elements, she did not think of it as starting an entirely new genre of art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, it is a new art form. It is a bridge between painting and sculpture and is a form of assemblage art. \u00a0It is \u201cpainting\" with fabric and employing the sculptural definition of giving shape in volume, much like low-relief or high-relief sculpture. \u00a0She discovers techniques to make the fabrics \u201cfly\u201d as if they were floating freely in space. The wall sculptures maintain the intrinsic quality of the fabric and are not hardened or altered. Still, they can be dusted.\u00a0 <\/span>There is an interactive quality created by the light moving into folds and textures of the fabrics, as well as by the observer\u2019s movement while observing.\u00a0 <\/span>The works typically incorporate three-dimensional found objects, such as chopsticks, bamboo, reed, wood, copper, glass shapes, and dolls which add to the meaning of the entire piece.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obi sculptures (silk) are very large pieces, often eight feet long, two feet high, and nine inches deep that fit beautifully into large or modest-size rooms, into any style of house decor from traditional to modern, and in corporate boardrooms and offices.\u00a0 <\/span>Other Obi sculptures are available on commission, choosing an obi from her collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy then expanded the genre into painting and dyeing silk (her silk scarves are presently sold out) and creating other, smaller three-dimensional forms, displayed in 16\"x20\" shadow boxes, also sold out. Next, she moved into<\/span>\u00a0using satin or metallic fabrics for the background, typically sculpting foil fabric, felt, satin, ribbon, tulle, and organza and attaching them to canvas. She has developed new techniques and approaches to construct with the different weights, composition, and nature of the fabrics. Her emphasis, as always, is a combination of color, light, texture, and design. These fabric assemblage structures range in size from 16 x 20 inches up to 3 x 5 feet.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0These are also dustable. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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About The Art Kathy Bennett Dove’s latest pursuit is photography paired with writing. A View Askew along the Intracoastal Waterway includes 400 pictures. Two poetry \u00a0books, Air Dance and Wandering Around Thoughts amplify each poem with pictures and will be available soon.. Her photography is noted for attention to detail, with an eye for design, Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ambiancesilk.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ambiancesilk.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ambiancesilk.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ambiancesilk.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ambiancesilk.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"http:\/\/ambiancesilk.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"http:\/\/ambiancesilk.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ambiancesilk.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}