Kate Clements
Visiting Assistant Professor of Foundation
Kate Clements constructs delicate and ornate paintings, installations, and sculptures comprised of kiln fused glass panels. Working with frit, a type of crushed glass, she sifts, scatters, and pushes the sugar-like substance on a kiln shelf to form dimensional drawings. The wafer-thin panels reference naturalistic designs and floral motifs that she uses to explore ideas of beauty, taste, and impermanence. Through installations that are ornate, volatile, and impossibly delicate, Clements asks us to consider what we’re drawn to, what we dismiss, and what it costs to keep up appearances.
Clements holds an MFA in Glass from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture and a BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has received national and international residencies to create her glasswork, including at the Museum of Arts & Design in NYC, S12 Galleri in Bergen, Norway, and Pilchuck EAiR residency. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, Bellevue Art Museum, the Chautauqua Institute, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Fine Art.