Kate Levant


Kate Levant is an American artist.

Life and Education

Kate Levant was born in 1983 in Chicago. She attended the Francis W. Parker School and in high school, the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She has degrees from Yale University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Career

Kate Levant is an American sculptor and conceptual artist. Her work has been included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum of American Art. She is represented by in Chicago. Previously, she was represented by in New York. She uses salvaged industrial materials, papers, aluminum foil and household items to create abstract assemblages. The concepts driving these sculptures have been described by Natalie Haddad at Hyperallergic as "systems that sustain life and society, and the consequences of their breakdown, remain at the heart of her practice." Her work has been compared to Robert Rauschenberg. Of what drives the form of her work, the artist has said, “The material, the substances and subjects themselves, seem to be what has the whip in them…I don’t feel in charge of the dynamic.”

Critical Reception

Critics frequently mention Levant's 2009 exhibition "Blood Drive" at Zach Feuer Gallery—launched while still a graduate student at Yale University—as the launch of her career. That show consistent of a series of sculptures that included a "Waiting Area", assemblage sculptures resembling furniture,, and an actual blood drive.
Kate Levant's art was included in a discussion of work in the 2012 Whitney Biennial by Michael Wilson in Art in America. In the article, he describes her work "mourning" the loss of America's Manufacturing Industry.

Exhibitions

2017
2016
2014
2012
2012
2011
2009