Exhibitions

KATE TEALE: FALLS THE SHADOW

University Art Gallery (The University of the South) / 68 Georgia Ave., Sewanee, TN January 16 - March 29th

Kate Teale

Kate Teale’s graphite and charcoal drawings—however simple their means, and however stripped down their subject matter—are laden with meaning.

These drawings do not render objects, but voids, doorways filled with tactile shadow. They are controlled and careful, and perfectly quiet. They wait.

Representing doorways, tunnels, and windows, Teale manipulates architectural space, making walls disappear. She distills meaning in the representation and experience of thresholds, points of transition between shelter and destruction, between confinement and escape. Doorways “make visual the transition from darkness into light—or the reverse.” A doorway divides two worlds, and requires a choice.

More than metaphor or representation, these drawings require embodied understanding. Drawing, for Teale, “[should] be something we experience in our bodies and process in our sub-conscious.”