Charleen Kavleski

Charleen Kavleski is a multimedia artist from the Catskills. In graduate school in the 1960's she found great affinity with palpable, systemic Conceptual Art with which she has worked for many years. She has synthesized this with her family history of module workers — quiltmakers and masons — as she has experimented with a series of interrelated systems featuring the use of congruent isoceles right triangles, which are called half-squares in quilt-making.

Sculpture and acrylic-shaped canvas constructions have been generated through these systems, however, her installations of these constructions show movement and sometimes dance — going beyond the expectations of Conceptual Art, especially in her larger suites.

In addition to the modular influence of quilt-making on her art, its other facets have been of interest. She has worked with fabric two dimensionally and with wet and dry media, with collages and with sculpture in selected forms. Her most recent experiments, entitled "Quilt Top Studies," pay tribute to her family artisans / constructors who have helped to make her receptive to contemporary and Conceptual Art.

Submitted by Amos Eno Gallery