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Katherine Spindler
Viewing Room, 9 - 14 July 2020

Katherine Spindler: Viewing Room

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  • The unlikely marriage of movement and stillness, of tumult and quietude, is a defining characteristic of Katherine Spindler’s oeuvre, eliciting...

    The unlikely marriage of movement and stillness, of tumult and quietude, is a defining characteristic of Katherine Spindler’s oeuvre, eliciting a similar mix of emotion in the viewer. In examining Spindler’s paintings one has the sense that things are moving just beneath and beyond the surface, too vast to fully perceive or understand. With a quiet immensity and arresting gravitas, Spindler’s work sees light and shadow flicker and evade, swirl in eddies, swell and recede. The surface of the canvas, like water, is unstable, constantly shifting and undulating while main-taining a meditative stillness that both captivates and mystifies. Often blurring, veiling, or erasing the images she works with, Spindler’s intention is to evoke rather than explicate, to suggest more than to prescribe.

  • Solo Exhibitions

    • Katherine Spindler, From Matter to Matter
      Exhibitions

      Katherine Spindler

      From Matter to Matter 13 August - 17 September 2019
      A SLOW EXPOSURE – KATHERINE SPINDLER Ashraf Jamal Seated in Katherine Spindler’s studio, listening to her as she lays out works in oil, water soluble graphite, and charcoal, one word...
    • FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg
      Events

      FNB Joburg Art Fair

      Johannesburg 7 - 9 September 2018
      Barnard is pleased to present the solo exhibition Still by Katherine Spindler at the FNB Joburg Art Fair 2018. The word ‘still’ has multiple readings; to allay or calm, to...
    • Katherine Spindler, To Hold Time
      Exhibitions

      Katherine Spindler

      To Hold Time 26 September - 24 October 2017
      Katherine Spindler’s artistic process is essentially one guided by intuition before and above concept. As such, it is difficult, and perhaps inappropriate, to attempt to describe an overarching impetus for...
    • Katherine Spindler, Selah
      Exhibitions

      Katherine Spindler

      Selah 4 August - 8 September 2015
      Katherine Spindler: Selah Opening speech by Dominique Edwards I have found the writing of this piece particularly challenging. How does one attribute language, in the format of the spoken...
  • Joburg Art Fair 2018

  • Katherine Spindler completed both her BAFA in 2004 and MFA in 2011 with distinction at the Michaelis School of Fine...

    Katherine Spindler completed both her BAFA in 2004 and MFA in 2011 with distinction at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town where she subsequently lectured part time 2009-2017. She continues to teach in the art department of Bishops Diocesan College in Cape Town, a post she has held since 2010.

     

    Her distinguished Masters exhibition, ‘At Sea’, drew upon her experience volunteering aboard a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, and went on to show at Commune.1 in Cape Town. She joined Barnard in 2014 and has since presented four solo exhibitions with the gallery including a solo project at the FNB Joburg Art Fair in 2018. Barnard has presented the artist’s work annually at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair since 2015 as well as at ‘AKAA – Also Known As Africa’ in Paris 2017-2018.

  • Press

    • A Slow Exposure
      Press

      A Slow Exposure

      September 11, 2019
      Seated in Katherine Spindler’s studio, listening to her as she lays out works in oil, water soluble graphite, and charcoal, one word emerged like a reckoning – sensibility. A favourite...
    • The importance of having two ears
      Press

      The importance of having two ears

      September 1, 2018
  • Publication: To Hold Time

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