2013

Loud Whisper, Ernesto Mayans Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

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Loud Whisper, Kathleen McCloud’s 7th solo exhibition at ERNESTO MAYAN’S Gallery, is based on her two-year immersion into the personal collection of papers and artist studio miscellanea she inherited from Emil Schnellock, Henry Miller’s boyhood friend who, during the 1930’s while Miller was living in Paris, became his literary promoter and champion.

Using the archive as a starting point, McCloud picks up the narrative threads of the collection and through paint, ink, paper, and letterpress, creates a travelogue of her sojourn into the past and the lives of others. Rather than keep the voyeur’s distance, she unfolds a body of work that is not about Miller or Schnellock, but about the transformation that occurs when objects and ideas from the past are wedded to the present.

“I’m interested in the stories we record and things we inherit that make up our web of influence. In one of Miller’s essays he quotes 19th century poet/philosopher Amiel, ‘We are all visionaries and what we see is our soul in things’. I see myself in the archive and in the soul searching of Emil, Henry and the other contributors. It’s not about them–it’s about vision, imagination and creation.”

– Kathleen McCloud