DVAA Member since 2023
Monica Kane
WEBSITE: monicakaneart.com
About:
Monica Kane’s work speaks to us through elements of the natural and manmade world. Born in Brooklyn, Kane’s first solo exhibition in New York City combined her work in ceramics with her refined drawing skills. In her show Fish Worship, she created slip cast fish, and displayed both plaster mold and its cast, explicating art and process. Her work whether in two or three dimensions, contains references to internal and external, psychological and sociological experience. Kane works with metals, wood, stone, found objects, paper, ink, watercolor, charcoal and graphite. Her pieces range in size from intimate to large site-specific installations.
Kane holds her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute with further studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of the Arts. Her work has been displayed in solo and group shows in the United States and Europe. She has exhibited work with Cerulean Arts, Seraphin Gallery, the Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia Sculptors, Philadelphia Center for the Book, DaVinci art Alliance, CFEVA and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as the A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. Her work is in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Newark Public Library and the Oberlin College Clarence Ward Art Library.
Monica Kane currently lives and works in Collingswood, New Jersey.
Artist Statement:
My work speaks through elements of the natural and manmade world. Whether in two or three dimensions, the work contains references to internal and external, psychological and sociological experience. For the past 20+ years, my personal artistic journey has been circling around the connection to my father who passed in 2005. Beginning with a painting of his house and moving through the use of materials found in nature, the work evolved into an exploration of the boat/vessel form. As I was immersing myself in this imagery, I delved into my father’s enlistment in the US Navy during WWII. His assignment as a Seabee, in the Navy’s Construction Battalion, was as a ship fitter where he was tasked to do repair and building and was trained to be a welder. Learning of this brought me closer to him and gave me more of an understanding of my interest in the materials and fabrication of sculpture. In the evolution of my art practice, through imagery (the boat) representing passages, searching, and migration, I have evolved in my use of different media and my ability to take risks.
