Kate Budd
Akron, Ohio

Chastity
wax, ribbon
15.5 x 8 x 6.5 cm
2003

____Selected exhibitions

  • The Neo Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2005
  • Kate Budd, solo exhibition, The Carnegie Galleries, Covington, Kentucky, 2005
  • Beauty Mark, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, 2003
  • Honey, solo exhibition, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio, 2003
  • Kate Budd: Fetish, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2002
  • 1st Cleveland Biennial, Best Sculpture Award, Cleveland State University, Ohio, 2001
  • On-site Ohio: Kate Budd, solo exhibition, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, 2000
  • Waxworks, solo exhibition, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000

Kate Budd was born in 1969 in Nairobi, Kenya and graduated with honors, BA, 1990, from Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland, and received a MFA, 1995, from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is an associate professor at Myers School of Art, University of Akron and received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in 2003.
While I carve, I listen to the material and my hands, and the idea shifts from the personal to the archetypal. Wax is sensuous and tactile, translucent and mutable. The scale references dolls or netsuke and the “cute” size allows for the exploration of more unsettling imagery.