Kathy Muehlemann

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Hypnotic Flight by Kathy Muehlemann, 1986, oil on linen, Honolulu Museum of Art Hypnotic Flight by Kathy Muehlemann, 1986.jpg
Hypnotic Flight by Kathy Muehlemann, 1986, oil on linen, Honolulu Museum of Art

Kathy Muehlemann (born 1950) is an American abstract painter.

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Early life and education

Muehlemann was born in Austin, Texas and earned a B.F.A. from State University of New York, Empire State College in 1978. She also studied fresco painting in Italy.

Artistic career

Muehlemann is currently chair of the Art Department and professor of art at Randolph College. [1]

The artist describes her style as "metaphoric abstraction". [2] It consists of an allover deployment of geometric images, often suggesting celestial objects, [3] as in Hypnotic Flight, from the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, NC), the Albright–Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Grey Art Gallery (New York City), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Maier Museum of Art (Lynchburg, VA), the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami, FL), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO), and The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.) are among the public collections holding works by Muehlemann. [1] [4]

Personal life

Her husband, Jim Muehlemann is also an artist and professor at Randolph College. [5]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "Art History and Studio Art Faculty". Art History and Studio Art. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  2. "Artists Profile: Kathy Muehlemann May/June 2017". Lynchburg Living. 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  3. Yau, John, "Kathy Muehlemann", Artforum, March, 1992, p. 110
  4. The artist's website Archived 2019-07-30 at the Wayback Machine [
  5. "Paths: Recent Work by Jim and Kathy Muehlemann Opens at Hunt Gallery - Mary Baldwin University". marybaldwin.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-01.