Kathleen Kucka

Kathleen Kucka is an American visual artist whose practice includes abstract paintings, works on paper and prints. She is known for work that combines a conceptual approach with unique, sometimes unpredictable processes of mark-making such as the burning of canvas, pouring paint, and sewing. Critics note her work for its highly associative, open-ended quality, which evokes modernist formalism and natural phenomena from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic. Critic Stephanie Buhmann wrote that Kucka's work is inspired by nature and contemporary abstraction with attention to geometry, and leaves viewers "wondering if we are witnessing a scene documented through a microscope or captured from an aerial view ... we find ourselves reminded of the interrelations between all things, be they of a natural or man-made origin."

Kucka has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Columbia Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art and the Drawing Center, among other venues. Her work belongs to permanent art collections including those of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Borusan Contemporary (Turkey), and Weatherspoon Art Museum. She is based in New York City and Falls Village, Connecticut.