EXTENDED - Cerbera Gallery Presents: Rachel Hubbard Kline - "Symbiosis"

Experience Cerbera Gallery’s new exhibit “Symbiosis” | Selected works by Rachel Hubbard Kline
“Symbiosis”
Selected Works by Rachel Hubbard Kline
March 6 – March 28, 2020
Opening Reception:FRI, March 6, 6-9 pm
2011 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64108+1-844-202-9303 | info@cerberagallery.com

“Symbiosis” by Rachel Hubbard Kline
Based in Kansas City, Rachel Hubbard Kline’s work explores the wistfulness of personal connections to historical domestic objects and material culture. Hubbard Kline seeks “Symbiosis” in the relationship of surfaces to forms and addresses the hierarchy of importance between the form and the image or decoration.

Objects both functional and ornate, factor into the banality and mundane of daily life. As the current political and social climate continues to shift, Hubbard Kline seeks to compare past and present means of the production of goods and labor.
The vessel acts as a stand-in for the body and a metaphor for preservation. Hubbard Kline series of jars and jugs are intended to preserve memories of family members and places by using specific colors, patterns and objects she remembers from childhood to the present. By combining her work of fragmented tiles and vessels, Hubbard Kline bridges public and private space.

Surface design inspired by vintage textile prints from family quilts and other historical motifs appear in Hubbard Kline‘s work.
Hubbard Kline Incorporates quilt patterns that have been passed down to her by her grandmothers into the clay. This process allows Hubbard Kline to uphold memories and the larger history of the quilting tradition considered women’s work in the context of fine art.

In addition to her fine art career, Hubbard Kline is an art educator and artist in her hometown, Kansas City, MO.
Hubbard Kline has been the recipient of educator residencies at the Kansas City Art Institute, a participant in the Connecting Collections teacher institute in New York, and Educator Conferences and AP Teacher Training at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Park University in 2010, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Connecticut in 2007, and attended Parsons School of Design. Hubbard Kline received her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 ENSEMBLE OF FRAGMENTS (THESIS EXHIBITION), MIDDENDORF GALLERY, MICA, Baltimore, MD

Juried Exhibitions:

2019 RUN, RUN RIOT, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
2019 CERAMIC CENTRIC, Foundry Arts Centre, St. Louis, MO, Juror’s Choice Award
2018 MO ART EXHIBITION FOR EDUCATORS, MSU, Springfield, MO
2018 RUN RIOT, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
2018 NCECA NATIONAL STUDENT EXHIBITION, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pittsburg, PA
2018 TWIN CUPS EXHIBITION, MWSU Potter Gallery, St. Joseph, MO
2017 TOPEKA COMPETITION 33, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS

Group Exhibitions:
2018 MFAST SUMMER CENSUS 2ND AND 3RD YEAR SHOW, RIGGS GALLERY, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2017 MFAST 2ND AND 3RD YEAR SHOW, RIGGS GALLERY, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2016 WISH YOU WERE HERE, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
2016 HOME BASE, Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO

Please join Cerbera Gallery in celebrating Hubbard Kline’s second solo show, “Symbiosis” – March 6 – 28, 2020.

For all press inquires and group visits regarding Cerbera Gallery’s September-October show “Animals”, contact Philipp Eirich or Kennedy Burgess at info@cerberagallery.com. We encourage local museums and art groups interested in private tours to book dates in advance since this exhibition will only be on view for a few weeks. As usual on First Friday we’ll have chilled background tunes coming from our very own DJ Deep House Cat and will be serving libations and snacks. Our doors will open at 6pm, so make sure you’ll stop by!

A Friendly Note from Lili Komondor:

“Phil usually shares our gallery news on Cerbera’s official Facebook page. As many of you know, I am Cerbera Gallery’s Permanent Artist in Residence Canine, so make sure to say “HI” and give me a belly rub when you come in the next time.”

First Friday: 6pm – 9:00pmTue, Wed either 1-5pm or by appointment (844.202.9303)Thu, Fri from 1-6pm and Sat from 11-6pm.