Britta Kathmeyer Original Bowl Series Untitled #22 36'' x 24''

Untitled #22 Acrylic on Canvas. 2023 36'' x 24" Artist Statement:  BOWL STILL LIFESI started the series of vessel paintings in early 2017 when the shape of a vessel had repeatedly emerged in abstract ink paintings I was working on at the time. I became intrigued by a bowl’s minimalist shape while simultaneously evoking humanity’s history of making objects. Clay vessels are the oldest manifestations of the human capacity for art, design, and beauty. Also, the shape of a bowl is quintessential female, and its function is associated with giving and receiving, holding, healing, and nurturing, qualities that are desperately needed in our often competitive and aggressive world. I therefore consider the process of painting a bowl a form of quiet protest and counteraction to the violent nature of our times. The process of painting these still lifes is a meditative practice for me: it invites conteing.mplation of the philosophical concept of Yin and Yang, which describes the complementary princ