About Kailey
Baltimore City
Kailey Barthel is a contemporary artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Barthel received her Bachelor's in both Fine Art and Latin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her MFA at the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA. She currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Recent paintings
A selection of recent paintings completed on site at my residency at the James Castle House in Boise, Idaho.
This imagery is drawn from an ongoing series of collages in which I use fragments of rooms found in interior design magazines and books to construct new compositions. I'm thinking about how the coherence of the previously intact view of the room is disrupted by the cutting and reconjoining of disparate elements. What was once a familiar and legible domestic space becomes something else, and abrupt shifts in perspective, depth, and scale become disorienting.
This imagery is drawn from an ongoing series of collages in which I use fragments of rooms found in interior design magazines and books to construct new compositions. I'm thinking about how the coherence of the previously intact view of the room is disrupted by the cutting and reconjoining of disparate elements. What was once a familiar and legible domestic space becomes something else, and abrupt shifts in perspective, depth, and scale become disorienting.
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UntitledUntitled, Oil on panel, 10x10 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, Oil on panel, 10x8 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, acrylic and oil on canvas, 10x8 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, Oil on panel, 10x8 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, Oil on canvas, 8x8 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, Oil on panel, 10x8 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, Oil on panel, 10x8 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, Oil on panel, 10x8 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, Oil on panel, 10x8 inches, 2020
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UntitledUntitled, Oil and graphite on panel, 10x8 inches, 2020
Mokulito
A selection of mokulito prints. Mokulito or wood lithography is a recently developed technique that is done on plywood instead of the limestone which is typical of traditional lithography. I began researching and experimenting with mokulito in 2018 while I was a teaching intern in the printmaking department at MICA in Baltimore, and began experimenting more with the process while in residence at the James Castle House in Boise, Idaho in 2020.
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UntitledUntitled, (v.e. 4/6), Mokulito with monoprinting on kitakata, 12x9 inches
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Barthel03.jpgUntitled, (v.e. 5/6), Mokulito with monoprinting on kitakata, 12x9 inches
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UntitledUntitled, (v.e. 2/5), Mokulito with monoprinting, 12x9 inches
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UntitledUntitled, (v.e. 6/6), Mokulito with woodcut and monoprinting on kitakata, 12x9 inches
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UntitledUntitled, (v.e. 3/5), Mokulito with monoprinting, 12x9 inches
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Barthel08.jpgUntitled, (v.e. 4/5), Mokulito with monoprinting, 12x9 inches
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UntitledUntitled, Mokulito on kitakata, 9x12 inches
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Cozy Cottage TrailerCozy Cottage Trailer, Mokulito on kitakata, 14x11 inches