I work with frit, a type of crushed glass, to form dimensional drawings of naturalistic designs and floral motifs that explore ideas of beauty, taste, and impermanence.
About the Artist
Kate Clements (b.1989) is a Kansas-City Missouri-based artist who constructs ornate paintings and installations comprised of kiln-fused glass panels. Working with frit, a type of crushed glass, she sifts, scatters, and pushes the sugar-like substance on a kiln shelf to form dimensional drawings that are fused together at a high temperature. The glass panels reference naturalistic designs and floral motifs that she uses to explore ideas of beauty, taste, and impermanence. Utilizing the seductive qualities of glass, Kate draws the viewer in, but upon further inspection, the work reflects a nervous tension and palpable precarity that comments on the delicate balance of her materials as well as of the natural world.
Solo exhibition, SUPER NATURAL, Powell Gardens, 2024
Exhibited at Chautauqua Institution, 2024
Tg Transitions in Kiln Glass Finalist, 2024