Kate Tedman exhibits paintings and embroideries that chart connections between diverse motifs, signs and symbols. Anamorphic forms combine with graphic iterations of birds and animals, and passages of representational painting. Sharing the unifying space of the picture plane, links are formed between culturally disparate figurations. We experience a magic-carpet reverie of notional connections and correspondences.
This is an inventory of exoticism that brings to mind the inquisitive and acquisitive Orientalism of the nineteenth-century European explorer, immersing themselves in ‘the other’.
The artist makes quasi-maps of the iconography of colonial exchange, stitching connections across time and space to form a cultural amalgam and, what she describes as, “a system for survival”.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Ripped Seam and Other Delights, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Never Even, Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, San Francisco, CA
One Plus One Minus One, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2010
Bug War Over Two Blue Mountain, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Stories for Bad Children, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
The Wages of Sin in Specimen, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
People Put Together, Albemarle Gallery, London, England
2004
Big People, Little People, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco,CA
2003
Familiar Faces and Falls from Graces, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco,CA
2001
Apart Gallery, London, England
Group Exhibitions
2012
The Young Collectors Exhibition, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Pangea: Art at the Forefront of Cultural Convergence, Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, San Francisco, CA
2009
Echo: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Flaming Furbelows, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
2006
The Art of Survival, Curated by Kimberly Johansson, ABCo Art Space, Oakland, CA
2005
Re-presenting Representation VII, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Western Biennale of Art, John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis, CA
What is Realism? Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, Albemarle Gallery, London, England
Love For Sale, Bankside Gallery, London, England
2004
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
2003
Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, England
Combined Talents, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2002
Modern Myth, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco,CA
Beaux and Eros, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco,CA
2001
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco,CA
Luminous Wonders of the Electronic World, New Langton Arts, San Francisco,CA
Apart Gallery, London, England
Special Projects and Experiences
Guest Panelists, The Commonwealth Club on California, forum on Emerging Artists, 2005
Art 26 – Tsunami Relief Exhibition, The Westbourne Studios, London, England, 2005
The Jackdaw magazine, April 2005
Selected Press
Mojeh Magazine “Art Dubai 2012” March 2012, UAE
Elle Preview, “For Art’s Sake” March 2012, UAE
Outlook Business, “Art Break” February 2012, USA
New York Times, “The Fruits of Collaboration” November 2011, USA
COMPANY, “30 Under 40 Emerging Art Mavens,” June 2011, USA
The National, Abu Dhabi, “Kate Eric: Watch this Space” 2010, UAE
El Mundo “Kate Eric: Art Dubai: El Arte de Oriente Proximo” 2010, Spain
Reuters, “Kate Eric: Dubai Art Fair Upbeat Despite City’s Debt Woes”, 2010
Refraction Art, “Stuff Going On: an interview with Eric from Kate Eric,” October 2010, USA
Time Out Dubai, Kate Eric “Art Dubai; What the Regional Collectors Were Buying,” April 2010, UAE
San Francisco Chronicle, “96 Hours” — Kate Eric Bug War Over Two BLue Mountain, April 2010, USA
San Francisco Chronicle, Review of Bug War Over Two Blue Mountain, April 2010, USA
Art Scene, “Something Special I Interview with Kate Eric,” April 2010, UAE
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Review of Flaming Furbelows, March 2009, USA
Art Forum, Review of Art Dubai, March 2009, USA
Art in America, Review of Stories for Bad Children, May 2008, USA
Art News, Review of Stories for Bad Children, March 2008, USA
Artweek, Review of Stories for Bad Children, January 2008, USA
SF Weekly, Review of Stories for Bad Children September 2007, USA
Art Knowledge News, review on Stories for Bad Children, September 2007, USA
Art Business, Review on Stories for Bad Children, September 2007, USA
Jackdaw Magazine, April 2005, UK
SN & R, Review of Western Biennale of Art, 2005, USA
Eyewitness News (CBS), “Inside City Limits” TV Interview on Wages of Sin in
Specimen, November 2005, USA
SF Gate, Review of Big People, Little People, May 2004, San Francisco USA
Eyewitness News (CBS) TV Interview on Big People, Little People, May 2004, USA
SF Weekly, Big People, Little People, May 2004, San Francisco USA
ARTNews, Review of Big People, Little People, May 2004, USA
Collections
Dubai International Finance Center, Dubai
De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The David Roberts Foundation, London
