KYLE COTTIER
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Bio

​Kyle Cottier (b. Louisville, KY 1993) is a sculptor. He holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, 2015 and attended the New York Studio Residency Program in Brooklyn, 2014. His interdisciplinary practice blends traditional textile and woodworking techniques spanning sculpture, installation, photography, painting, illustration, writing and performance. Kyle creates work informed by the convergence of the natural and made world, exploring the synthesis of personal and social transformations. Currently, Kyle is living and working as an artist in residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN.

Statement
Nature is abundant with sturdy patterns, constantly circulating between function, desire, growth and decay. Kyle Cottier's labor-intensive studio practice is rooted in the metaphysical study of underlying patterns and principles in the universe that focus the mind on the transient beauty of impermanence. His sculptural work choreographs compelling spatial narratives that exploit the tension between absence and form to achieve a potent sense of ephemerality.

Illumination of the vascular infrastructure shared by trees and the human body is vital to Kyle’s material foundation. Wood, more than any other medium, testifies to an invisible human presence. Establishing dialogues between destruction, creation, order and entropy he works with wood-scrap from industrial processes to ignite the senses and reinforce a profound relationship to our environment. Working with repetition of shape in order to transform material he creates biomorphic forms blending nature and human action into a seamless whole.
Exhibitions
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2020
                  Earthbound, Stride Art Gallery, New York, NY

                  Collective Expeditions II, International Society of Antiquaries Collective
                  BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ

2019
                  Unchanging Window, Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery,Arrowmont School of
                  Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN (solo)

                  Collective Expeditions I, International Society of Antiquaries Collective,
                  
SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY 

                  If Wishes Were Horses, Queen City 15 Gallery, Poughkepsie, NY (solo) 

2018
                  Up Close, Lazy Susan Gallery, New York, NY

                  Time Travelers, Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY 

                  Labor & Materials II, 21c Museum, Bentonville, AK

​2017 
                  Dusklittle, Orange County Arts Council, Newburgh, NY

                  Green Space, Newburgh Open Studios, Newburgh, NY 

                  Dusklit, Seligmann Homestead, Sugarloaf, NY

                  Dia, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY

2016
                  Re-Union, B Minus Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
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                  Labor & Materials I, 21c Museum, Oklahoma, OK

2015
                  Pop Stars, 21c Museum, Cincinnati OH
                  
                  Convocation, The Carnegie, Covington, KY
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                  On Labor, Pearlman Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 

2014           
                  Foreign Bodies, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati OH

                  Intermission, Chidlaw Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

                  Honorable Mention, New York Studio Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY

Publications

2020
                 Under The Bridge, Installation - Autumn Issue
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                 Art Market Magazine, June Issue 48

2019
                 Friend of the Artist, Volume 9

2018           
                 Chronogram, December Issue, Hudon Valley, NY
                 
                 Artrepreneur, Art Business Journal, November Issue, New York, NY

                 Roll Magazine, TIME TRAVELERS, June Issue, Hudson Valley, NY 
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