Biography

Kathryn Maxwell’s mixed media works have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad. Solo exhibitions have included Glasgow Print Studio; Dundee Contemporary Arts; Laredo Center for the Arts; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Northern Arizona University Museum. Group exhibitions include the International Print Center, New York; Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago; Detroit Institute of Arts; Tucson Museum of Art; Indianapolis Art Center; American Cultural Center, New Delhi, Los Angeles Printmakers Biennial, Tallinn Triennial, the Boston Printmakers Exhibition, and the Bradley National.

Numerous public and corporate collections include UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Denver Art Museum, Frans Masereel Centrum, Nelson Atkins Museum, and Birmingham Museum of Art.

She received an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a B.A. from Northwestern University. She is Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Professor of Printmaking at Arizona State University, Tempe.

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SYNAPSE: THE POINT OF CONTACT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ART
Deborah Cornell and Kathryn Maxwell
Scientists and artists are explorers, seeking to connect ideas and hypotheses, working with minds and hands in an effort to map the unknown and visualize the invisible.

This exhibition includes the work of Deborah Cornell and Kathryn Maxwell, artists whose work is informed by the explorations of scientific investigation. These artists journey into scientific realms with their artwork, and occupy space at the intersection of art and science.

Deborah Cornell’s work travels along the edges and borders of cultural, perceptual, and scientific interactions of humans with the environment, with images that propose imagined crossovers and migrations. Using digital methods on paper and transparency, she explores the threshold where technology is reshaping nature, the synaptic jumps between technologies and species, and the consequences of reducing our experiences to pixels and bytes. Her works include four new installed works in the series “Overlays”.

Kathryn Maxwell’s work expands on the exploration of physics, neuroscience and genetics as these fields investigate “who are we?”  Through her work, the artist recognizes new discoveries, theories and investigations in (and of) science about our physical being, but also embraces the ephemeral aspects of life that cannot be defined solely through scientific means. Recent work has explored how we, collectively and individually, search for meaning. Four new wall panels are included for exhibition.