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KATHLEEN MCGUCKIN

Monroe NY UNITED STATES

I grew up in a family of artists and artisans. Memories of witnessing their practice, while often creating alongside them, consistently stimulate my imagination. Vestiges of these experiences in these creative spaces form a legacy of their existence.

Kathleen McGuckin is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working across painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage. Her practice examines memory, transformation, and the traces that experience leaves upon material surfaces. Applying media in successive layers, she adds, removes, obscures, and reveals, allowing each composition to develop through the interaction of intention and discovery. Lines, textures, and residual marks remain visible as records of the work’s construction.

Kathleen’s compositions bring past experiences into dialogue with the present, considering how memory continues to shape perception. Her use of layering allows concealed forms to emerge gradually, creating surfaces in which personal and collective histories coexist.

ARTWORKS

Sono Buoni, In Memory of Nicola (2025)

Kathleen McGuckin
oil and collage on canvas, 30H x 40W in (76.2H x 101.6W cm) $NFS

Pieces of the past, in the form of collage and found objects, are integral to the work I create. They tell tales of their own and are a significant part of the story that is revealed to me as the work develops throughout the process. Houses, as forms and shapes, have a significant presence.

My interest in further understanding recurrent images of houses that appear in my work led me to 'The Poetics of Space' by Gaston Bachelard and his later work, 'Poetics of Reverie'. In his writings, Bachelard describes how the perception of our dwellings influences our thoughts and memories.

“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical
space.” ― Gaston Bachelard, 'The Poetics of Space'

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KATHLEEN MCGUCKIN

Monroe NY UNITED STATES

I grew up in a family of artists and artisans. Memories of witnessing their practice, while often creating alongside them, consistently stimulate my imagination. Vestiges of these experiences in these creative spaces form a legacy of their existence.

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