Cara Vickers-Kane
Primary Medium: Photography
Email: caravk (at) gmail (dot) com
Artist Statement
The thought of “Mother” is at once with us and against us; a constant bond of desire and repulsion. Self-Portraits of Your Mother studies perceptions of honesty, surface, intensity, and ritual. This body of work
asks familiar, yet unforgettable and undeniable questions, with a wry nod to the changing shape of womanhood related to my physical form as I lose weight. Most compositions are accented by the mundane
loyalty of a dog; domesticated for centuries, cultivated to live for praise, love, and due to its domestication: dependent for sustenance.
I choose to use Daguerreotype frames for contemporary reframing as they are very small and meant for portability; as keepsakes. They commonly included the hair of the person whose portrait was contained
within attached to the velvet of the frame (I have one frame with hair still intact), which made them highly personal mementos and an attempt at encapsulation of the physical reality as well as visual representation
of the person depicted within
Email: caravk (at) gmail (dot) com
Artist Statement
The thought of “Mother” is at once with us and against us; a constant bond of desire and repulsion. Self-Portraits of Your Mother studies perceptions of honesty, surface, intensity, and ritual. This body of work
asks familiar, yet unforgettable and undeniable questions, with a wry nod to the changing shape of womanhood related to my physical form as I lose weight. Most compositions are accented by the mundane
loyalty of a dog; domesticated for centuries, cultivated to live for praise, love, and due to its domestication: dependent for sustenance.
I choose to use Daguerreotype frames for contemporary reframing as they are very small and meant for portability; as keepsakes. They commonly included the hair of the person whose portrait was contained
within attached to the velvet of the frame (I have one frame with hair still intact), which made them highly personal mementos and an attempt at encapsulation of the physical reality as well as visual representation
of the person depicted within
Selected Works
|  Untitled from Self-Portraits of Your Mother - 2009 - C-Print - 30x22.5 - $800.00 [Fundraiser]  Untitled from Self Portraits of Your Mother - 2009 - C-Print - 30x30 - $800.00 [Fundraiser]  Untitled from Self Portraits of Your Mother - 2009 - C-Print - 32x24 - $800.00 [Fundraiser]  Untitled from Self Portraits of Your Mother - 2009 - C-Print - 30x24 - $800.00 [Fundraiser] |
Artist Bio
C a r a V i c k e r s – K a n e
480 Main Street. Unit 314. Willimantic, Connecticut 06226. 860.841.4228. caravk@gmail.com
Selected Exhibitions:
2009 Dispersion, Art Space, Newhaven, Connecticut, Juried Group Exhibition, Jurror: Johanna Van Deun, September 15 – October
31, 2009.
Faculty Exhibition 2009, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut, September 9-October 4, 2009.
Index II, Art Space, Newhaven, Connecticut, Group Exhibition, July 29 – August 30.
Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, March 19, 2009
2008 Feed the Beast, Hans Weiss Newspace Galllery, Manchester Community College, Art Department, Manchester, Connecticut,
October 16 – November 26.
Real Photographs!, ArtSpace, Artist in Residence, New Haven City Wide Open Studios, Hamden, Connecticut, Juried Group
Exhibition, Jurrors: Clint Jukalla and Chelsea Spengemann October 3-5, 2008.
Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, March 20, 2008
2007 Cara Vickers-Kane, Quinebaug Valley Community College Art Gallery, Danielson, Connecticut, Solo Exhibition, October 15-
November 15, 2007.
Digital Atelier: New Works, Contemporary Art Gallery, University of Connecticut, Group Exhibition, Curator: Janet
Pritchard, August 28 – September 14, 2007.
Cultural Identity: A Sharing of Identities Between Two Countries, Sofia Press Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 9-August 3, 2007
and Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, September 2007. Curator: Brad Guarino.
2nd Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, Windham Arts Center, Willimantic, Connecticut, Juror: Paul Zelanski, June 9-July 12,
2007
Physical Presence: The Figure in Contemporary Art, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona, Juror: Anne Wolfe,
April 24-August 8, 2007.
Loud, ALL Gallery/Arts and Literature Library, New Haven, Connecticut, Group Exhibition, Curator: Howard El-Yessin,
January 6-February 4, 2007.
2006 Artspace Resident Show, Artspace Windham, Willimantic, Connecticut. November 9 - December 31, 2006.
Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, March 16, 2006
2005 Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Ridgefield
Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, Connecticut, Group Exhibition, November 6 – 20, 2005
Digital Atelier, Contemporary Art Gallery, University of Connecticut, Group Exhibition, Curator: Janet Pritchard, August 29-
October 29, 2005
Some Color, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, Group Exhibition, July 8 - September 6, 2005
Rock, Paper, Scissors…Shoot!, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, New York, Four person Exhibition, June 3 – 26, 2005
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition – Rock, Paper, Scissors…Shoot! , The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut,
April 1 - May 8, 2005
Galleries:
The Boston Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, www.carrollandsons.net/boston-drawingproject/index.php
FlatFile, Art Space, New Haven, Connecticut, http://www.artspacenh.org/collection/index.htm (soon to be added online)
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston Massachusetts, www.howardyezerskigallery.com
Education:
2003-2005 University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, Master of Fine Arts, concentration Photography
2002-2003 Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentration Photography
1996-2000 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Bachelor of Arts, Major Women's Studies, Minor Art History
Selected Bibliog raphy:
Nilsen, Richard. “Craftsmanship Isn't Enough.” The Arizona Republic, June 3, 2007.
Kobasa, Steven Vincent. “Art Boom: Sound and fury signifying something.” New Haven Advocate, February 1, 2007.
Birke, Judy. “Volume and Quality vary in AlLL's ‘Loud' exhibit.” New Haven Register, January 14, 2007.
“Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York Exhibition Catalogue”, The Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists, 2005. (Color Reproductions)
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