Visit with Kit Porter
Kit Porter shows us the newest developments in her practice in preparation for Mapping the Margin.
In Kit’s newest paintings, the artist introduces transparency, with thinned washes of paint that offer an aqueous contrast to her more sharply defined forms. These paintings chart the allegorical resonance of nature as it relates to human agency.
My fragmented floral paintings explore the dichotomy of growth and breakdown. I strive to create paintings that feel like bursting fields of wildflowers, but look like broken fragments.
Kit Porter
Porter’s fragmented flowers and foliage appear carved, softened and shaped from the outside, formed by the space in which they grow. They allude to life altered by its natural environment, and nature altered by the people who inhabit it.
In order to better understand this feeling of growth and abundance, I spend time in nature, inspired by the plants outside of my studio, the gardens flourishing in my neighborhood, and unexpected expanses of flowers growing in the wild.
Kit Porter
