Kathryn Polk, Secret Obsessions
Kathryn Polk
1952-
Date
2006
Medium Specific
Lithograph/ stone
Edition / State
2/15
Classification
Print
Dimensions
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Accession Number
2007.20.20.27
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Biography
Kathryn Polk was born in 1952 in Memphis, Tennessee where she studied Fine Art at the Memphis Art Academy (now The Memphis College of Art) and Memphis State University (now The University of Memphis). Polk moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1983 with her husband Andrew Polk, a fellow lithographer. In 2017 Polk and her husband relocated to a farm near Bloomington, Indiana where they have set up L VIS Press (because of her Memphis connection).
The subject matter of Kathryn Polk’s art focuses on everyday activities, chores, relationships between women, mothers and daughters and so on, often with the same characters recurring in different works. Most incredible is the fact that Polk only started making lithographs in 2002 when she was in her 50s. Since then her prints have been exhibited widely, her work in many collections around the world including China, New Zealand, Korea, Wales, France and Argentina as well as museums though out the United States.
https://art.utk.edu/visiting-artist-kathryn-polk
The subject matter of Kathryn Polk’s art focuses on everyday activities, chores, relationships between women, mothers and daughters and so on, often with the same characters recurring in different works. Most incredible is the fact that Polk only started making lithographs in 2002 when she was in her 50s. Since then her prints have been exhibited widely, her work in many collections around the world including China, New Zealand, Korea, Wales, France and Argentina as well as museums though out the United States.
https://art.utk.edu/visiting-artist-kathryn-polk
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