Kathy Venter - Revision Series    Oct 20 - Nov 23, 2008

Artist in AttendanceVenter's Revision series, unusual for this era, explores the artist/model relationship. These works evidence Venter's great capacity as a sculptor who takes chances, using classical composition, while engaging in challenging polychrome surface effects that build a tension in the overall production.Venter engages in building a relation to history through the simple act of interpreting her model, over a period of a month, in various poses, at different times of day, in various moods. The surfaces likewise reference a process of mold making where the traces remain after the mold is chiseled away.Venter, however, does not make use of any molds. The sculptures are built free hand by the extended pinch method, 13% larger than life, to shrink to life size upon firing.The process of being and making or creation are both part of the essence of Venter's Revision series. The works establish a dialogue about the relation between the sculptor and the emergent form. All this is done with a basic humanist intuition. We are always in the same place, these incredible sculptures seem to communicate, wherever we are, not by choice but by chance." John K. Grande