Short Bio
Kate Kern Mundie: Capturing Ashcan School essence in oil paintings, revealing fleeting beauty of changing landscapes amidst urbanization & climate change impact. Exhibiting in Philly, PA & Greenville, DE
Statement
Kate Kern Mundie weaves the Ashcan School's essence into her oil paintings. Her art, inspired by the changing landscape influenced by climate change, captures the ephemeral beauty of open spaces before they yield to urbanization or quality of light and atmosphere due to pollution. With a growing confidence in her craft, Mundie's work delves deeply into the human impact on these landscapes, with narratives show fleeting nature of untouched terrains, inviting viewers to contemplate the significance of these transient moments amidst the ever-evolving environment. She exhibits in Philadelphia, PA and Greenville, DE.
Biography
Kate Kern Mundie is landscape painter in the tradition of American Realism. Her paintings often depict moments of beauty in urban streets, rural landscape, or secluded interiors. Kate Kern Mundie’s paintings are reminiscent of the famed Ashcan School, although she offers a fresh interpretation and a slightly more romantic expression. Kate Kern Mundie’s artwork is in the collection of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and numerous private collections. She is a two-time winner of the Fred & Naomi Hazell Faculty Fellowship from the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. Kate Kern Mundie is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied printmaking and painting, and the University of Pennsylvania where she received her B.F.A. Kate lives in Philadelphia with her husband and fellow artist, James Mundie, and their sons Declan and Aidan.
Resume / CV
EDUCATION The University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude 1999, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Certificate, printmaking and painting 1996, Montserrat College of Art, 1991
GALLERY AFFILIATION F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia PA and Station Gallery, Greenville DE
AWARDS, HONORS, and RESIDENCIES 2022 Artist/Mother Virtual Artist in Residence, Philadelphia, February 7 to March 7, 2022; 2014 Elizabeth Bishop Artist In Residence, Great Village Nova Scotia; 2006-2007 Fred & Naomi Hazell Faculty Fellowship Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, through a fund managed by the Philadelphia Foundation May 2006; 2003-2004 Fred & Naomi Hazell Faculty Fellowship Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, through a fund managed by the Philadelphia Foundation May 2003
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2023Uncertain Certainties, Virtual Art Exhibition by the Thrive Together Network, October 2023; 101 Artists, The Art of Collecting Art: 159 artists from the Fred Danziger Collection of Contemporary Art- Patricia M. Nugent Gallery, Rosemont College, May 2023 2022; Rest: Paintings by Kate Kern Mundie- F.A.N Gallery, Philadelphia, September; Gallery Artists, Summer Group Exhibition- F.A.N Gallery, Philadelphia, July - September, 2022; Still- Stay Home Gallery and Artist Residency, Paris Tennessee, March 21 to June 5, 2022; Winter Group Exhibition-F.A.N Gallery, Philadelphia, December 2021-January 2022; Coming Home: Paintings by Kate Kern Mundie- F.A.N Gallery, Philadelphia, July 2021; Winter Group Exhibition- F.A.N Gallery, Philadelphia, December 1, 2019- January 25, 2020; Summer 2019 Group Exhibition- Station Gallery, Greenville DE - July - August 2019; Urban View: Changing Landscapes- House Gallery, Philadelphia PA - April 2018; Works by New and Current Gallery Artists- F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia PA - December 2017; Group Exhibition- F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia PA - July & August 2017
