Installation view. 2014
Ghost/Press Conference. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
20 ¾ x 24 ¾”
(KaH14 01)
Portrait of the Young Artist Walking the Plank. 2014
Oil pastel and collage on paper, framed
18 5/8 x 16 5/8”
(KaH14 02)
Aliceville Prison Construction Is Near Completion. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
23 1/4 x 33 5/8”
(KaH14 03)
Woman Boat. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
20 ½ x 26 5/8”
(KaH14 04)
Man Boat. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
21 7/8 x 26 5/8”
(KaH14 05)
New Dress. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
25 5/8 x 31 1/8”
(KaL14 06)
Deal. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
22 7/8 x 20 7/8”
(KaH14 07)
I Really Think There Is Nothing Economically Wrong. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
18 7/8 x 22 3/8”
(KaH04 08)
The Story of How This All Came To Be Is Long and Complicated. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
18 ¾ x 22 7/8”
(KaH14 09)
Flood 2. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
20 x 30 ¼”
(KaH14 10)
Tallest Woman/Richest Man. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
22 ¼ x 28 1/8”
(KaH14 11)
Dolphin. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
19 ¾ x 29 ¼”
(KaH14 12)
Why Look At Animals. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
21 ½ x 27 3/8”
(KaH14 13)
Giant. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
18 ½ x 22 5/8”
(KaH14 14)
Parade. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
25 x 31”
(KaH14 15)
Uptick. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
18 ¼ x 35 1/8”
(KaH14 16)
White Elephant/FGT. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
26 5/8 x 25 3/8”
(KaH14 17)
Installation view. 2014
Hands 1. 2014
Wax, paper, wire, multi-part
13 x 17 x 9 ½”, as installed
(KaH14 18)
Hands 2. 2014
Wax, paper, wire, multi-part
10 ½ x 9 x 8 ¾”, as installed
(KaH14 19)
Below Target. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
22 5/8 x 18 ¾”
(KaH14 20)
Ghost/Green. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
25 7/8 x 32 7/8”
(KaH14 21)
1865. 2013
Oil pastel on paper, framed
25 5/8 x 35 5/8”
(KaH14 22)
Black Ghost. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
27 x 21”
(KaH14 23)
White Ghost. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
27 5/8 x 40 5/8”
(KaH14 24)
Biggest Gainers. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
23 ¼ x 33 1/8”
(KaH14 25)
Ghost/Rose Madder. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
27 5/8 x 40 5/8”
(KaH14 26)
Tipperary. 2014
Wax and paper
14 x 14 x 7 ¼”
(KaH14 27)
Tip. 2014
Wax and paper
21 ½ x 14 ½ x 9 ½”
(KaH14 28)
Installation view. 2014
River. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
18 7/8 x 22 5/8”
(KaH14 29)
Army of Women in Training. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
21 ½ x 31 5/8”
(KaH14 30)
Weekly Application. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
20 7/8 x 27”
(KaH14 31)
Green Room. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
17 7/8 x 32”
(KaH14 32)
Pants/Big Pants. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, 2-part, framed
Left panel: 18 7/8 x 22 7/8”
Right panel: 18 5/8 x 22 5/8”
(KaH14 33)
Untitled. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
20 x 24 3/8”
(KaH14 34)
Stampede. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
20 7/8 x 27”
(KaH14 35)
Closing Ticks. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
23 1/8 x 33 ¾”
(KaH14 36)
Arshak. 2014
Acrylic on wood, paper, wax in wood table
62 x 27 ½ x 9 ½”
(KaH14 37)
White Elephant. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
17 ¾ x 21 38”
(KaH14 38)
Untitled. 2014
Oil pastel on paper, framed
23 ¼ x 32 ½”
(KaH14 39)
Oscillating between fascination and apprehension, Kathleen Henderson illuminates our struggle to make sense of a senseless world with her expansive and ambitious exhibition of new drawings and sculptures at Rosamund Felsen Gallery.
At once agitated and masterful, Henderson’s oil-stick line confronts head-on the financial sector and its place in a system of gross inequalities; the excess and waste of massively expensive and tragically useless trophy projects, or ‘white elephants’; and a profiteering pharmaceutical industry that is moving beyond marketing drugs to humans and setting their sights on neurotic and depressed domestic animals as well. These new drawings, replete with tension and vulnerability, weave figurative narratives that are at once anonymous and achingly familiar.
Inspired by Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us - a collection of essays imagining the beauty and brutality of an Earth without humans, Henderson goes further with a group of drawings depicting voracious scenery overwhelming isolated ghost figures awed and dwarfed in an apocalyptic environment.
Deeply reflective, heartbreakingly honest and fiercely critical, Henderson’s poignant works are attempts to reveal the attitudes of people, society, and the world at large - along with the humorous, lovely, and at times disturbing interactions that result.
