Kailua Village Artists featured artist in May is fine art and professional photographer Kathleen Carr, she states “I have always been interested in conveying more than the literal interpretation of what I photograph, whether it be my experience of the subject when I am fully present, or where it leads me creatively. I have worked with a variety of techniques and alternative processes, including black and white infrared photography, and now the digital darkroom allows for even more exploration.
During my Featured Artist month at the gallery, she chose a selection of Polaroid images to share. For many years I experimented with alternative uses for Polaroid films, taught workshops in these processes, wrote two books,’Polaroid Transfers’ and ‘Polaroid Manipulations’ (Amphoto Books 1997 and 2002), and was a Polaroid Creative Uses Consultant. Even though Polaroid no longer makes these films, people still seem to love the images, and continue to buy limited edition prints. Each original was unique, so I had my favorites scanned as digital files so that I could continue to make archival prints.” The Polaroid Corporation started making and selling instant cameras and film in 1948. All the chemicals to develop an image were stored in the film itself and the camera activated these chemical reactions, resulting in physical photographs within
minutes, right before your eyes. The particular size and frame of those Polaroid instants became iconic over the next few decades.
Carr received a BFA (cum laude) in Photography from Ohio University in 1970, and then studied extensively with Minor White and worked for Aperture, a renowned photography quarterly. She was staff photographer at the Findhorn community in Scotland, and at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Kathleen received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1991. Her award winning work has been exhibited internationally, purchased for private collections, and has appeared in numerous books and periodicals, including her five published books.
Carr is president and a founding member of SOKO (South Kona Artists Collective). Visit her website at www.kathleentcarr.com .
Kathleen Carr will be at the gallery on Monday, May 1, and Tuesdays May 9 and 30, 2023.
The Kailua Village Artists Gallery is located in the Kona Marketplace, 75-5729 Alii Drive, Suite C-110 in Kailua-Kona. The gallery is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm. For more information please call 329-6653, or visit our website at kailuavillageartists.com, on FaceBook and Instagram: Kailua Village Artists.