Welcome Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann
August 13 -27, 2021
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Coffee@Ten - Friday, August 20th | CTAC and Online
Open Studio in Good Hart - Saturday, August 21st
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Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann received her BA from Brown University and MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, a Fulbright grant to Taiwan, the AIR Gallery and Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Fellowships in New York, NY, and the Arts and Humanities Grant, Mayor’s Award and Hamiltonian Fellowship in Washington, DC. Some of the venues where Mann has shown her work include the Walters Art Museum, American University Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Rawls Museum, the Art Museum at SUNY Potsdam, the US consulate in Dubai, UAE, and the US embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon. Mann is currently an instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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Artist Statement
My work’s abstractions arise from the subjects I portray: ecological and geological cycles, processes of chemical corrosion, and natural efflorescence. With roots in traditions of Chinese landscape painting, my monumentally sized paintings and installations evolve a fantastic, abstract vision of the natural world. My latest work confronts the challenge: the resuscitation of landscape painting in a world where “landscape” is represented and defined through an ever-widening field of digital, graphic, and visual forms. How can a painting capture flux, abundance, waste, fertility, and the collision and collusion of diverse forms? How can it respond to the pressure we place on our era’s fragile ecosystem? My paintings explore both questions by sustaining tension between what is artificial and what is natural, between what is chemical and what is biological, between organic and inorganic. The paper on which I paint is not only a recognition of a tradition of Chinese painting; it is also a medium of vulnerability and expansiveness, susceptible to crease and tear as well as to collage and collation. My own role in the creation of the paintings strikes a balance between the purpose and the protective. I trust to process, chance, and change, but I encourage, direct, and facilitate all of these. In my most recent work, I hope to live in the tradition of landscape painting, experiencing it for what it has always been: an occasion for radical experimentation and confrontation with the world, in the broadest sense of the term, that sustains us.
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Katherine was selected for the parent-artist residency in a highly competitive application process. There is a need in the arts community to provide opportunities for artists that are actively parenting. Thanks to a generous grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation we are able to provide an additional stipend for Katherine to bring her two children and a caregiver to the residency. The goal is for the artist to be able to focus on their creative work knowing their children are close by and well cared for. |
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Crooked Tree Arts Center
Coffee@Ten August 20th
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Event Details
Friday, August 20, 2021 - 10:00 AM
Venue: CTAC Theater and Online
Artist Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann's larger-than-life abstract paintings and installations are rooted in the traditions of Chinese landscape painting. Through her imaginative and fantastical representation of the natural world, her work explores the tension between what is natural and unnatural; organic and inorganic.
In this artist talk, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann will talk about her inspiration and process. The talk is free and will be live in the CTAC Theater and broadcast online.
Link to Zoom Webinar
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Open Studio Saturday
August 21st 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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910 N. Lamkin Rd
Harbor Springs, MI 49740
We will continue to operate with pandemic safety measures including; mask requirements while inside the studio and social distancing protocols. Thank you for your continued cooperation.
Help us to be good neighbors and do not park along N. Lamkin Rd.
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Your contribution supports both the resident artist’s work, and their collaboration with local community partners.
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The Good Hart Artist Residency is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowable by law.
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