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Patterns Of Privilege Installation - Jordan Schnitzer Museum Of Art
mixed media - artist designed wallpaper, panel paintings/collages, mirrors printed text, painted cloths
96" x 104"
2021
WindowFront Installation - Visual Art Week
mixed media - artist designed wallpaper, panel paintings/collages, mirrors, printed text
Three panels - 96"x 126"
2021
Patterns of Privilege - Under My Skin Installation
Mixed media panel paintings, artist designed wallpaper, printed text, mirror
96" x 84"
2021
Kathleen Caprario, Patterns of Privilege - I Stand Upon You 3
acrylic, spray paint, ink on birch veneer panel
30"x30"
2020
$2200
Kathleen Caprario, Patterns of Privilege - I Stand Upon You 3
artist designed wallpaper, mirror
DETAIL
2021
Patterns of Privilege - I Stand Upon You 3
Artist designed wallpaper, printed text, DETAIL
2021
Patterns of Privilege - Under My Skin
artist designed wallpaper
26" x 22" repeat
2019
Patterns of Privilege - A Reading Room  Installation
panel paintings, artist designed wallpaper, books, carpet, pillows
2019
Patterns of Privilege: I Stand Upon You 2
acrylic, oils, spray paint, cutouts on paper, on wood panel
30"x 30"x 3/4"
2019
Patterns of Privilege: Sweet Briar
artist designed wallpaper
2019
Patterns of Privilege: I Stand Upon You
acrylic, spray paint, ink, cutouts on paper, on wood panel
16"x 16" x 1 1/2"
2019
Patterns of Privilege: Past Present 1
acrylic, spray paint, ink, printed text, cutouts on wood panel
16"x 16" x 3/4"
2019
Patterns of Privilege: Past Present 2
acrylic, spray paint, ink, printed text, cutouts on wood panel
16"x 16" x 3/4"
2019
Patterns of Privilege: Say My Name 2
Spray paint, acrylic, ink, text on wood panel
16"x 16"x 3/4"
2018
Patterns of Privilege: Say My Name 1
Spray paint, acrylic, ink, text on wood panel
16"x 16"x 3/4"
2018
Patterns of Privilege: Bodies of Nature 3
acrylic, spray paint, ink, cutouts on paper, on wood panel
16"x 16" x 1 1/2"
2019
Patterns of Privilege: Bodies of Nature 2
acrylic, spray paint, text, cutouts on paper, on wood panel
16"x 16" x 1 1/2"
2019
Patterns of Privilege: Bodies of Nature 1
Spray paint, acrylic, ink, text on wood panel
16"x 16"x 1 1/2"
2018
Patterns of Privilege: Western Legacies
Spray paint, acrylic, ink, cutouts on paper
42"x 166"
2018
Patterns of Privilege: Say Her Name
Spray paint, acrylic, ink, cutouts on paper
42"x 120"
2018
Patterns of Privilege: Legacy
Spray paint, acrylic, ink, cutouts on paper
42"x 90"
2018
Patterns of Privilege: LaBonte
Spray paint, acrylic, ink, cutouts on paper
44"x 126"
2017
White Noise @ Gray Space: Historic Mims' House
Looped video, drawings, text installation
6'x 6'x 6' Gray Space Traveling Installation
2017
White Noise Video Installation
Looped Video and Audiograph on paper
Installation at Lane Community College, Eugene, OR
2017

PATTERNS of PRIVILEGE explores the intersection between physical place and cultural space. Questions of privilege, including my own as a white artist, are at the core of the work and my process. What right do I have to engage this work? How do I place myself respectfully within its context and navigate its complexities with awareness, honesty and authenticity?

The abstracted contours and toile de jouy-style cutouts reference appropriation, boundaries and privilege. Cutouts depicting historic African American Westerners—Bill Pickett, George Fletcher and James Beckwourth—are contrasted in several works with text commemorating contemporary African Americans who died in institutional and racially motivated killings, painted trompe l’oeil fragments from European-inspired wallpapers and patterns gleaned from the land, including the Sweet Briar Slave Cemetery, VA to create a compression of time, a dialog between the past and present and a conversation for today.

WHITE NOISE and WHITE NOISE/THE PEACEKEEPER are projects that consider media coverage of racially motivated and institutional violence targeting African Americans and white privilege. The WHITE NOISE PROJECT, as a video and site specific installation in the Gray Space cube, has been exhibited in numerous locations. WHITE NOISE/THE PEACEKEEPER, a collaborative project with Marissa Solini was selected for the “Salon: Portland2016 Biennial The Studio Visits” exhibition juried by Grabner and represented by Caprario's video (04:00) and featured images of a wood and plaster sculpture by Marissa Solini.

Thank you to the following for their support of my practice and Patterns of Privilege:

The Oregon Arts Commission - Career Opportunity Grant
Ford Family Foundation Mid-Career Artist Residency Awards
Jane G. Camp Memorial Fund - The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
The Ucross Foundation, WY
The Djerassi Foundation, CA
Brush Creek Foundation, WY