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Kyle Cottier constructs a union of terrestrial and architectural forms to give identity to personal and universal meditations on the interconnectedness of the human experience and natural world. Illumination of the vascular infrastructure shared by trees and the human body is vital to the material foundation of Cottier’s work. In his intimate and instinctual practice he attends the magnificent subtleties of nature within grain, within wood. Through tedium and attention to the innate integrity of wood, the presence of the artist’s hand revealed in the work is guided by places in the universe where geometry and entropy overlap.
Navigating these spatial dualities shape the landscape for depth and growth of the human experience and our bodies’ relationship to our environment. Similarly, Cottier’s work reverberates such dualisms through the fragmentation of rigid material into billowing dream-inspired forms and patterns intrinsic in nature and wildlife. He further explores mankind’s situational awareness by realizing animal fantasies through a synchronization of psychological and zoological interpretations taken from his introspective practices. Cottier’s work analyzes and attempts to honor the individual’s place in the family of all things, a single point of connection in an infinite entanglement of life. Exhibitions 2020 Visages Voyages, 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, International Society of Antiquaries Collective, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY If Wishes Were Horses, Queen City 15 Gallery, Poughkepsie, NY 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 Labor & Materials I, 21c Museum, Oklahoma, OK 2015 Pop Stars, 21c Museum, Cincinnati OH Convocation, The Carnegie, Covington, KY Intermission Innermission Entermission, Pearlman Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2014 Welcome Back, Chidlaw Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Honorable Mention, New York Studio Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY Publications 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 |