About the Exhibition
In her solo exhibition Reappraisal, Katherine Duclos invites visitors to reconsider what holds value. Questioning her own values within artmaking, gender, and societal expectations, Duclos has created a new body of work for the ACT Art Gallery. Unlike a typical gallery experience, many artworks are designed to be touched, rearranged, and interacted with in the eyes of a child to form deeper visual and tactile connections.
Drawing from childhood, teen years, and influence of her grandmothers, Duclos re-evaluates her personal experiences in multidisciplinary mediums. She sources materials directly from or inspired by her family homes such as curtains, bedsheets, window screens, and collections of milk glass (formerly off-limits decorations in her grandmother’s home) to create installations, sculptures, paintings, and digital artworks. By reconstructing inner worlds and past environments in a process of reparenting, Duclos reorients herself in the present.
About the Artist
Vancouver-based artist Katherine Duclos received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Massachusetts, she moved from New York City to Vancouver, BC in late 2017 with her family, where she maintains an active multi-media studio practice. Her work reflects her engagement with her family, environment and her experience as a gifted and disabled Autistic woman and mother. Katherine’s work has been featured in Colossal, Design Milk, School Arts Magazine, Design Boom, LABEL Magazine, CBC Arts and Radio, and The Globe and Mail. At any given time her work can be found at galleries across North America, but she is locally represented by The Rental and Sales Showroom at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has also worked as a teaching artist and artist in residence for Studio in a School in New York City, The Philadelphia Art Museum, and the Richmond Art Gallery.
