Bio
Kyle Cottier was born 1993 in Louisville, KY. In 2014 he was awarded a gallery space at the New York Studio Residency Program in DUMBO and received his BFA in 2015 from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Cottier has shown work extensively in the US at major galleries and museums from the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati to the Dorsky Museum in Newpaltz, NY. His work is a part of 21c Museum's collection and has shown at their locations in Oklahoma City, OK, Bentonville, AK, Cincinnati, OH and Louisville, KY. Kyle's sculpture, Sometimes I wish we were an eagle, 2019, was commissioned and featured in the Carter Center's Foundation and live auction in 2019 where he raised over 17K for international health and peace. He has had work published in the Hudson Valley magazine, Chronogram, through Artrepreneur's online publication and in addition was awarded first prize for sculpture in their 2018 competition where he installed work at Lazy Susan Gallery in Manhattan. Kyle currently lives and works in Hudson Valley, NY.
Statement
Nature is abundant with sturdy patterns, constantly circulating between function and desire, growth and decay—nothing remains unchanged. Kyle Cottier’s interdisciplinary practice is rooted in the metaphysical study of the underlying patterns and principles that engender the uncompromising touch of mortality, focusing the mind on the transient beauty of impermanence. His sculptural work intuits a poetic approach to space. Choreographing 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 and creation, 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.
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 and creation, 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.
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Exhibitions
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 Labor & Materials I, 21c Museum, Oklahoma, OK 2015 Pop Stars, 21c Museum, Cincinnati OH Convocation, The Carnegie, Covington, KY 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 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 |