Catherine Repko: Hark

Exhibition Dates: September 4 - October 24, 2024

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 4th @ 6PM-8PM

39 White Street, Tribeca

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1969 Gallery presents Catherine Repko: Hark, the artist’s debut solo presentation in the United States. Combining marble dust with oils on linen, Repko creates intimate and ethereal figurative scenes, exploring familial bonds. Repko’s work is rooted in her relationship with her sisters and the spaces they occupy.

Forms clash and melt together, the notion of positive and negative space are challenged creating intimate and meaningful scenes. Conversations can be heard from the lighter than air figures, but no mouths can be seen. A complicated silence can be felt from the figures that mean more to each other than what might meet the viewer’s eye. Family constellations are built from oil and marble dust through intentional and nuanced color and synchronized movement.

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Alexander Browngardt | e: alex@1969gallery.com

Catherine Repko’s (b. 1990, Danbury, Connecticut) current practice explores the relationship between the artist and her three sisters. Intimate and poignant, Repko’s work examines familial bonds, identity and humanity, examining both the literal and figurative space between sisters – through time and distance, childhood to adulthood. Catherine Repko completed a foundation in Art and Design at Chelsea College of Art, London in 2010 before obtaining a BA in Visual Communication from the University of Brighton in 2013. She graduated with an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2021. Repko was the recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in 2020 and the Triangle Network Fellowship from The Arts Council England in 2016.

About 1969 Gallery

Founded in September 2016, 1969 is a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. Through solo / group / external exhibitions and art fair presentations, the Gallery has cultivated the careers of its represented artists and a broader community of artists primarily devoted to painting.

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