Milda K

Inspired by nature, history and the spaces humans create for themselves, my paintings and constructions conflate place and structure with memory and perception. I draw upon the experiences of place, seeking to distill the natural world and our perception of things down to their very essence.

Though the work is abstract and minimal, it is anchored in the real. The slight angle of a tree trunk, a series of telephone lines or a particular pattern of current flow within a body of water become communicators of emotion, feeling and experiential place. My work is concerned with activating this space both in the painting and in the viewer.

2008 Master of Fine Arts
Lesley University College of Art & Design​, Boston, MA

2004-1999 Drawing and Painting
School of Visual Arts​, New York, NY

1999-1996 Drawing and Painting
Art Students League​, New York, NY

1987 Bachelor of Science
Boston University​, Boston, MA

Solo Exhibitions:

2023
Everything Already and Then, Granite Gallery, Tenants Harbor, ME
Duality; online exhibition of work from a recent artist residency.

2022
Precipice of Unknowing, Mechanics Hall, ME

2020
I Dream in Layers, The Exhibit, NZ

2019
Works on Mylar, Buy Some Damn Art, Brooklyn, NY

2018
Surface Consumption, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

2016
Always into Now; a Painting in Space, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2014
Silent Space; Ward Center for Contemporary Art, Petersburg,VA
Chamber One; Ascent Contemporary, New York, NY

2013
Bringing on the Aither; Hunt Gallery; Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA

2011
Love is a Place; BravinLee Programs, New York,NY
Skin Deep, Miles Wide; Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery, Coker College, SC

2009
Suspended Presence, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, MI
Surfacing Beneath, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2008
Inner Urban Sanctum, Providence Art Windows, Providence, RI

2006
Plain Matters, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA



Group Exhibitions:

2023
Reductive; Lisa Kellner, Adam Umbach and Jean Jack, Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, ME (forthcoming)
In Tandem, Curated by Peter Michael Martin, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

2022
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