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Dusk on My Plate Oil
on Linen
Image Size 8 x 10 Framed 13
x 15 $900
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Getting Started Oil
on Canvas
Image Size 8 x 10 Framed 13
x 15 $900
“It takes two to
tango, kiss, and, well, a lot of other things. This
is my small homage to beginnings, and delicious things
done in twos. A squirt of lemon simply makes it better.”
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Best for Last Oil
on Canvas
Image Size 8 x 10 Framed 13
x 15 $900
“Imagine you’ve just
devoured a lovely pile of shucked oysters, but you’d
really like one more beauteous slurp. There, by the
resting knife, you see one last shimmering oyster,
waiting for you. It’s your lucky day.”
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Sweet Life Oil
on Canvas
Image Size 36 x 24 Framed 42 x 30 $2,800
“Oysters and their
many qualities seem like a metaphor for life. Our experiences
can be measured like tastes: sweet, salty, sour, or
bitter. In this composition, the juxtaposition of oysters
and lemon creates a metaphorical reference to life;
salty oysters plus a sour lemon equals sweet joy.”
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The Gardner's
Table Oil
on Canvas
Image Size 16 x 20 Framed 22 x
26 $1,600 |
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Oyster Study Oil
on Canvas
Image Size 4 x 4 $300 |
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The
Tropics Within Oil
on Canvas
Image Size 5 x 7 Framed 9.5 x 11.5 $550 |
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 Kim
Victoria Kettler began her studies under Stanley
Tasker and Tony Cleto at Washington University and
earned a BFA, Summa Cum Laude, at the University of
Dayton. She continued her diverse art education at
Antioch College, at International Papermaking Conferences
in Boston and Japan, at the Brookfield Craft Center
in Connecticut and at Truro Center for the Arts at
Castle Hill where she worked with Sal del Deo, Jim
Peters and Joyce Johnson, and most recently at Pratt
Institute in New York City.
She has taught at Castle Hill, Miami-Dade County Public
Schools, the International School in Istanbul, Turkey,
the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Truro
Central School and Provincetown Public Schools.
She has shown for 30 years in galleries from California
to Cape Cod, the Provincetown Art Association and
Museum, the Fine Arts Work Center, the American
Museum of Papermaking,
Atlanta, GA and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
as well as in Europe.
Kettler has shown at the Provincetown Art Association
and Museum, the Fine Arts Work Center, the American Museum
of Papermaking,
Atlanta, GA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well
as in Germany. |
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Kim’s work is in many prestigious collections
including:
- Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
- Children’s Hospital,
Philadelphia, PA
- First Atlanta Bank, Atlanta, GA
- Marui Corporation,
LTD., Tokyo, Japan
- Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
- Sinai Hospital, Baltimore,
MD
- National Foundation for Children, Miami, FL.
- University
of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
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Artist's Statement
I find oysters and their habitat
an endless source of inspiration.
Shellfish, with their hard, impenetrable shell and soft, vulnerable
flesh are abstracts as well as real life objects which
bring to mind the fragrant pleasures
of a beautiful place. Metaphors and mythology infuse
this Wellfleet symbol with a richness like no other. Like
finding precious pearls encased in
lowly bottom-dwellers, it is possible to imagine extracting
pearls of wisdom from otherwise messy situations. Not to
forget, the promise of love inflamed
by the aphrodisiacal powers of legendary oysters
cannot be lightly dismissed. And so I pay homage to creatures
of beauty, of inspiration, and of sustenance. |
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