Kathleen Kolb

About the Artist

Kathleen Kolb is known for her luminous landscape paintings of New England’s rural terrain and architecture rendered in oil and watercolor. Kolb earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her realist paintings capture the dramatic effects of light, and Kolb is interested in the notion of belonging evoked by our attachment to certain places. Shedding Light on the Working Forest (2014–17), a three-year collaboration with poet Verandah Porche, combines Kolb’s paintings and Porche’s poems to contemplate human needs and work in the forest. The exhibition toured six states. Kolb’s close, constant observation of the Vermont landscape and the impact of climate change on the environment have also inspired a political subtext to her works. In 2009, she was one of ten artists selected to participate in the Vermont Arts Council’s Art of Action project, addressing the state’s future. Kolb’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Ballinglen Museum of Art in Ireland, the Shelburne Museum and the Fleming Museum of Art in Vermont, the Butler Institute of American Art in  Ohio, and the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. Her work is currently represented by Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont; Jane Eckert Fine Art in Washington Depot, Connecticut; and M A Doran Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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