ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Several years ago, a friend described a meeting he had witnessed in Poland, during the Perestroika era. As film and equipment were hard to come by, filmmakers would meet and take turns reading screenplays and describing camera shots that they would take if they had the necessary materials. These meetings served as a way to continue and sustain their imaginations in times of profound disarray.
What interests me about this anecdote is how the imagined and the real are bound together out of necessity. The imagined and the real, mind and material, sacred and profane, sublime and ballast: each is a placekeeper for the absence of the other.
Making an idea “real”—in my case, creating sculpture, photography, and performance—I imagine the kind of interior and exterior landscape in which the object exists. How it is seen is central to the work. I see the “real” as stand-in for human experience, whether a performance or a photograph, whether a shoe or a figure, whether in a meadow or in a room. It is this desire to hold on to the transitory which directs my imagined and real life.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2003 Embodiment: Sculpture, Photographs, and Works on Paper by Barbara Kilpatrick. Construction Company Gallery [link: www.theconstructioncompany.org], New York
1999 Props and Prototypes: Sculpture by Barbara Kilpatrick. Danspace [link: www.danspaceproject.org], St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
Group
2007 101 Dresses Artspace, New Haven, CT
2003 Trisha Brown Dance Company Benefit Art Exhibit [link: www.trishabrowncompany.org/friends_artsale3.html]. Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Hudson Valley Artists 2002. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art [link: www.newpaltz.edu/museum], SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
1997 Second Annual Juried Show. Jurors: Bill Maynes and Grace Glueck. Columbia County Council on the Arts [link: www.artscolumbia.org], Hudson, NY
1995 Three Rivers Arts Festival [link: www.artsfestival.net]. Juror: Richard Flood. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 24th Juried Show. Juror: Charlotte Kotik. Allentown Art Museum [link: www.allentownartmuseum.org],
23rd Juried Show. Juror: Cheryl Brutvan. Allentown Art Museum [link: www.allentownartmuseum.org], Allentown, PA
Four by Fifteen. Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA
Still Life Now. Juror: Janet Fish. Creative Arts Workshop [link: www.creativeartsworkshop.org], New Haven, CT
Photographs: have appeared in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, and Time Out
Collaborations
with dancer-choreographer Vicky Shick
2002 duet. The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
with choreographer Wendy Perron
2004 Far, Near, Never (costume design). Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival [link: www.jacobspillow.org]. Beckett, MA
2006 Venus Hum. Video DVD
with dancer-choreographer Rika Burnham
1999 Dances for a Building (costume design). Yale Center for British Art [link: www.yale.edu/ycba], New Haven, CT
Residencies
2002 The AVA Project [link: www.rpi.edu/~ruiz/projects/ava/web.html]. Arts Center of the Capital Region [link: www.artscenteronline.org], Troy, New York
Awards
2003 New York Dance and Performance Award [link: www.dtw.org/bes_home.cfm ](“Bessie”). “In recognition of outstanding creative achievement during the 2002-2003 season.” Awarded for body of collaborative work with Vicky Shick.
Grants
2004 MAP Fund [link: www.mapfund.org], a program of Creative Capital supported by the Rockefeller Foundation (in collaboration with Vicky Shick and Elise Kermani)
Reviews and Articles
Jack Anderson. “Physically so close, but emotionally alone.” The New York Times, December 12, 1995
Nancy Delva. “Reviews.” Dance Magazine, March 1996
“Vicky Shick.” DANCE INK, Summer 1996
Jennifer Dunning. “A mysterious world of women and their emotional landscape.” The New York Times, October 21, 1996
Deborah Jowitt. “Up in the air.” The Village Voice, November 12, 1996
J. Abbott Miller and Patsy Tarr, eds. Dance Ink: Photographs. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997
Robert Greskovic. “NYC VIEW.” Dance Magazine, January 1997
Deborah Jowitt. “Horn of plenty.” The Village Voice, November 11, 1997
Deborah Jowitt. “Apply polish sparingly.” The Village Voice, February 17, 1999
Gia Kourlas. “Razor-sharp Shick.” Time Out New York, November 16-23, 2000
Jennifer Dunning. “When cloth and the set make images.” The New York Times, November 18, 2000
Deborah Jowitt. “Groaning board/lean cuisine.” The Village Voice, December 5, 2000
Amanda Smith. “Two women.” Dance Magazine, March 2001
Katie Dean. “May I have this avatar?” Wired Magazine, June 17, 2002
Karen Kuslansky. “Elise Kermani and Barbara Kilpatrick—‘The Aleph Project’ at Deep Listening Space.” New York North Arts, January 2003.
Kate Mattingly. “New York notebook.” Dance Magazine, March 2003
Jennifer Dunning. “Glimpsing five women as through a window.” The New York Times, March 12, 2003
Deborah Jowitt. “Tell me about it.” The Village Voice, March 19-24, 2003
Jennifer Dunning. “Bessies honor, and inspire, performance.” The New York Times, September 23, 2003
Deborah Jowitt. “Trisha’s spawn.” The Village Voice, March 16-22, 2005
Jennifer Dunning. “The listings.” The New York Times, March 18, 2005
Carley Petesch. “Stepping into light and sound.” Dance Magazine, March 2005
Gia Kourlas. “A new angle on the inner lives of women.” The New York Times, March 19, 2005
Accessed March 22, 2005
Ron Schira. A dance with the real and illusory. Reading Eagle, April 2, 2006
