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Kate Bright

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Kate Bright (b. 1964) lives and works in London, UK. Her paintings explore the opticality of water in the natural and human landscape, combining both realist approaches and an idealist sensibility. Studying the seductive refractions of light in pools, fountains, and ponds as well as the piercing brilliance of sunlight on snow, Bright’s signature style utilizes glitter, resin, glass and polystyrene on the surfaces of the paintings. These visually mutable materials create illusory experiences, expanding the possibilities for contemporary realism in compositions toying with abstraction and the artificiality of painting.

Bright studied at Camberwell School of the Art and Goldsmiths College and is currently a lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art at the University College of London. The artist has had solo exhibitions at the Centro Internacional de Arte de Salamanca, Spain; The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK; Vitamin Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK. Bright was notably included in the British Art Show in 1990, a major traveling survey exhibition showcasing contemporary art held every five years in the UK.

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Kate Bright ArtforumOctober 2018

by Bea Huff Hunter

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Kate Bright: Roadside Brittania The Philadelphia InquirerSeptember 2018

by Edith Newhall

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Kate Bright's Aquatic Explorations ArtblogNovember 2012

by Chip Schwartz

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Kate Bright's Works Conjure Alluring Darkness The Philadelphia InquirerMarch 2008

by Kate Bright

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Kate Bright: Between the Woods Essay by Judith E. SteinMay 2008
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Kate Bright ArtforumJune 2001

by Barry Schwabsky

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