A FAR-AWAY TAKE ON KATE PETLEY'S CURRENT EXHIBITION AT PLUS GALLERY

We received this today on Kate's work from Jewell Johnson, a renowned visual artist and theatrical director who resides in Sydney, Australia:

"This installation and the work is absolutely exquisite.

I am so happy to see the sculpture,  which I am immediately and completely taken with.

The panels are so juicy, have such an intense and beautiful impact I am still digesting them. Words seem inadequate to communicate what you are doing, and at what point you are as an artist. I can say there is a quality to your work that only Helen Frankenthaler does/touches or did.

Funny,  I revisited her work recently  for what I can't get anywhere else, what seems to be a thread that hasn't continued  with others. Today, with this installation, I can really see you do that. It's like going to a world that doesn't exist anywhere else and it definitely is a separate world. This is a subtle connection, I know, but I would expect serious collectors to see this and know your work is exceptional; both peaceful and tremendously powerful in the way her work is, the difference being her time and your time.

In our time, it is even more difficult to accomplish because of what has come before, but you have ventured into and expanded  a realm that related not just to nature, which her time mainly referenced, but both nature and the "nature" of the world man has created for himself.

The key "success" is your work is un self-conscious. A rare feat in a world where everyone is so concerned with "making it" and what will sell that it's so obvious the artist is "THE ARTIST" making art. You are truly able to be the artist making it who can also forget that you are making it."