Kate Breakey
Portrait of Kate Breakey
About
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers and animals in a series called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas Press. Her other monographs include, Painted Light, University of Texas in 2010, a career retrospective that encompasses a quarter century of prolific image making.
Her collection of photograms, entitled 'Las Sombras / The shadows' was published by University of Texas Press in October 2012. This series is a continuation of her lifetime investigation of the natural world which in her own words is ‘brimming with fantastic mysterious beautiful things.
Since 1980 her work has appeared in more than 110 one-person exhibitions and in over 60 group exhibitions . A native of South Australia, Kate moved to Austin, Texas in 1988. She completed a Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Texas in 1991 where she also taught photography in the Department of Art and Art History until 1997. Her collections include the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, The Australian National Gallery and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, as well as various private collections.
She has resided in Tucson, Arizona for 20 years. She regularly teaches workshops nationally and internationally.
Artist Statement
The still life work is a kind of homage to all those painters throughout art history who taught me about art and beauty, whose obsessions with color and light, with space and form became obsessions of my own.
Still Life with Aubergine and Artichoke #1/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned and hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 9 x 9
$2000 unframed
Blue vase with Red berries
Image size 16 x 20” Variable Edition of 20
Digital Archival print hand colored with pastel and pencil
$1750 Framed with Museum Optium plexi
$1500 Unframed
Other sizes available
Blue vase, two dead flowers
Image size 19.5. x 19.5” Variable Edition of 20
Digital Archival print hand colored with pastel and pencil
$1750 Framed with Museum Optium plexi
$1500 Unframed
Other sizes available
Bottle with Dead Carnation
Image size 18 x 22” Variable Edition of 20
Digital Archival print hand colored with pastel and pencil
$1750 Framed with Museum Optium plexi
$1500 Unframed
Other sizes available
Bottle with pink flower
Image size 19.5. x 19.5” Digital Archival print hand colored with pastel and pencil
$1750 Framed with Museum Optium plexi
$1500 Unframed
Other sizes available
Still life with Cantaloupe #4/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned &hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 28" x 33”.
$6000 unframed
Fallen Bird
Digital Archival print hand colored with pastel and pencil
Collection of Dan Leach
Mandarins in a Blue Bowl
Image12 x 12” Variable Edition of 20
Digital Archival print hand colored with pastel and pencil
$1500 Framed with Museum Optium plexi
$1250 Unframed
@TIA
Patricia’s Dead Tulips
Image size 24 x 24” Variable Edition of 20
Digital Archival print hand colored with pastel and pencil
$2000 Framed with Museum Optium Plexi
$1750 Unframed
Other sizes available
Still Life with Shell after Rembrandt #6/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned and hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 9 x 9
$3000 unframed
Still Life with Cherry #2/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned and hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 9 x 9
$2000 unframed
Still Life with Eight radishes #2/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned and hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 9 x 9
$2000 unframed
@TIA
Still Life with Five Fish #3/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned and hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 9 x 9
$2500 unframed
@TIA
Still life with Four Figs #5/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned & hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 28" x 33”.
$7000 unframed
Still Life with Lemons after Francisco Zurbaran #2/20
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned and hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 9 x 9
$2000 unframed
Still life with Blueberries #3/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned &hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 28" x 33”.
$6000 unframed
Still life with Three Pears #5/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned &hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size 28" x 33”.
$7000 unframed
Two Protea
Image size 24 x 24” Variable Edition of 20
Digital Archival print hand colored with pastel and pencil
$2000 Framed with Museum Optium Plexi
$1750 Unframed
Woodpecker on a Tablecloth #4/10
Silver Gelatin photographs, selenium toned and hand-colored with oils & pencils.
Image size15 x 15
$ 3000 unframed