The Aldrich
258 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone
June 6 to January 8, 2023
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Carol Kinne
Carol Kinne received her BFA from Hunter College, CUNY, and her MA from Bennington College, where she studied under artist Paul Feeley (1910–1966). Feeley’s simple abstract compositions, typically consisting of geometric forms in only two or three colors, directly influenced Kinne’s early paintings, as evidenced in Cad Yellow. Her work continued to focus on perception and its effects through color relationships and simple shapes, but it quickly evolved as Kinne began substituting chance for arrangement. The 1973 painting Bob’s Draw, on view in the Leir Atrium, was created by dividing a rectangular canvas into a 48-section grid and assigning a card from a standard 52-card playing deck to each square (with four cards serving as “wilds” that could either act as overlays or eliminators). Each card represented an act of marking that would determine the square’s shape: “Ace might mean a tiny arc; King might fill the whole square,” and so on. Though these codes were assigned by Kinne, the cards were dealt by someone else, in this case by the artist’s husband, Bob Huot.
Twenty Six Contemporary Woman Artists
April 18 to June 13, 1971
Kinne’s contribution to Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, a ten-panel painting expressing the varying hues of yellow, is no longer available. The two works on view are representative of the artist’s work from the time.