Kathy Caraccio: Quilt Series
Kathy Caraccio: Quilt Series
Kathleen Caraccio was born in the Bronx, New York in 1947. As a child, she was fluent in an “old world language” of needlework and manual dexterity, and remembers her parents’ support for her artistic inclinations as a kind of indulgence. In the 1960s, Caraccio’s artistic focus shifted to printmaking and works on paper, but she never lost her affinity for textiles.
Caraccio has worked as a master printer in New York City for the last 42 years. A sampling of her Quilt Series, made from 1972 through the early ’90s, depicts her explorations into color, pattern, symmetry, paper, and ink. These kaleidoscopic compositions gesture to Minimalism and Pop Art, and to the American textile and folk art traditions that predated or ran parallel to them. Such was the milieu of an artist who came of age in the late twentieth century—a period we are increasingly being asked to consider as “history.”
Event Date
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 to Sunday, September 29, 2019