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Kathryn Nobbe was awarded the 
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in March 2011. 
The New York City Foundation's mission is to award, internationally,
 professional artists  who have shown artistic excellence
 over a significant period of time. 
For more information-  http://www.pkf.org/press.html

Biography

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Trained as a painter, Kathryn Nobbe’s current art work is best described in the context of mixed media / installation involving a juxtaposition of painting, drawing, digital photography, and animated projections. Ms. Nobbe earned her MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1990.  She was awarded a scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she studied with Connie Fox, Leon Golub, William King, Jacob Lawrence, Judy Rifka, and Terry Winters.  

Ms. Nobbe has created a number of public artworks including a large-scale outdoor mural for the Pillsbury House in Minneapolis, which involved a unique dialogue and collaboration with the local community.  Other projects include a set design for the new music opera Mirabell’s Book of Numbers, by composer Marjorie Hess and writer James Merrill and a "painting performance" in collaboration with composer Homer Lambrecht and the Ancia Quartet.   She also produced a series of paintings for Eugene Garber's award-winning novel, The Historian, published by Milkweed Editions.  A widely acclaimed one-person exhibition, Underflesh: Exploring Human Fragility and Resilience, opened at the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery in the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul Minnesota in 2003.  Her video,recapitulation, was awarded broadcast in the 2005 MNTV program on Twin Cities Public Television, a collaboration between Walker Art Center Film and Video Department, IFP Minnesota, TPT, and Intermedia Arts.

Over the years Ms. Nobbe has received awards and commissions from Forecast Public Artworks, the Jerome Foundation, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Robert Rauschenberg’s foundation, Change Inc.  Most recently, she was awarded the Minnesota State Arts board Artist Fellowship (2002), a McKnight Artist Fellowship (2001-2002) and a fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2000).  Her work is represented by Dolly Fiterman Fine Arts in Minneapolis, and her paintings and drawings are in numerous public and private collections in the United States and abroad.   Kathryn Nobbe lives and makes art in Grant, Minnesota with her husband Fritz Bergmann, a composer, and her sons Hardt and Colin.

Artist Statement

My artwork involves juxtaposing high-tech with hand-made in order to examine the conundrums of our modern world where everything is just “one click away.
While nature, spirit and human interaction often take a back seat to the buzz of technology, a subset of my goals is to explore where the twain shall meet.

I am interested in the resonances that occur when I combine disparate tools and strategies such as computer imaging with painting, video with drawing, animated projections with mixed-media, and so on…
As I work analogies form between individual pixels and droplets of paint, and the cells and molecules that make up the tissues of my body.  While my process involves graphic ornamentation, painterly expression, fanciful motif, meditative rite—my motives are as much political as they are personal.

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