Kitty Hubbard

       This installation of works includes monoprints, large scale inkjet prints and sculptural elements created by taking natural objects, whose seemingly useful life has past (fallen leaves, dead flowers) and re-presenting or re-constructing them so they might be reconsidered. The works include an installation of hundreds of leaves, suspended by thread, monoprints made by running petals through a printing press, and inkjet prints made by scanning the pulverized petal remains.

       The underlying concerns of this work are the temporary nature of things… fragility, memory, impermanence, beauty and intersections of man and nature in sometimes beautiful and sometimes disturbing combinations. There is a feeling of loss I associate with the works; they are like beautiful empty shells or my grandmother's wedding dress, evoking memories, real or imagined. 

       Kitty Hubbard grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She received her BA in Art from Guilford College (1987) and her MFA at Visual Studies Workshop/SUNY Brockport (1998). She teaches photography at the University of Rochester and SUNY Brockport in Rochester, New York. She has exhibited nationally (including Richmond in the late 80s through 1990) and been the recipient of several grant awards including a Regional Artist Project Grant in 1994 with funding from the NEA, Rockefeller and Warhol Foundations. In 1999, she was awarded a Special Opportunity Stipend from the Arts Council of Rochester and the New York State Council on the Arts.