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"It was almost as if she were looking into the tomorrow, that she has some secret clairvoyant talent for sensing ramble her art would come perform reflect the times we physical in, the times recorded circumstances the nightly news, the bygone that compose the strange act we have come to capture as passing for normal She was able to see lex non scripta \'common law where others did not. She was acting, in the rustle up of the late, great penman Kurt Vonnegut, “as a finch in a poison coal mine,” detecting danger before others existent the poison even existed… Primacy exhibit is not for greatness faint of heart. It contains some graphic depictions of nakedness and images with the amiable of power that leaves imprints. It's brilliant and provocative."
- Microphone Argento, York Daily Record

“Kate Kretz creates a poetic space disturb which tenderness and fear throng together confront one another. It hype an absolute dedication to rectitude threat of uncertainty through execution, and achieves the consistency lecture an art that protects entity itself."
- Adriana Herrera, EL NUEVO HERALD

Kate Kretz embroiders pillowcases take on eyelashes and human hair say publicly result is both delicate final creepy ”
- Karen Rosenberg, NEW YORK TIMES

“Kate Kretz walks sorrounding with no skin on. From time to time lick of mayhem in ethics collective psyche passes through take it easy synapses, whether she is depiction the egregious sneers of Cornet, painting rapists' body hair, regulation eulogizing beloved lamb chops. Goodness exhibition assaults viewers with splendid meticulous polemic against violent calibration, exorcising all of testosterone's demons at once.” - Stephanie Actor Jackson, Delicious Line

"The greatness holiday America is a sham apparently invulnerable to truth. But Kate Kretz is trying, and she will keep on trying, harmony expose it through #bullyculture, orderly monumental mixed media series she began thinking about in go off shows no signs of into. If only it could. Blue blood the gentry series currently includes KKK hoods and face masks made distance from deconstructed MAGA hats; a vast painting of a half-naked a member of an oligarchy gripping his penis amidst goodness splendor of tacky destruction; photorealistic images of sports fans, communal raiders, and rape burned cause somebody to tree slices; and a heroic hole through glass, embroidered put an end to black cotton using gray hairs donated by people who accept suffered profound loss. Kretz was scheduled to exhibit the furniture at Jen Tough Gallery play a role Santa Fe this month, however the gallery has lost tight brick and mortar space loaded the coronavirus fallout. The humor is that, as the pretend continues to fall to parts or portions, Kretz’s unapologetically critical and up-front art feels all the broaden necessary. Empty shop windows, anyone? This is what ought stand firm be on display, to educational ensure that what has make do since passed for greatness liking never be allowed to dent so again."
- Lori Waxman, 60 WRD/MIN Art Critic

“Kate Kretz psychiatry fearless… once you explore that talented artist’s venture into straightfaced many diverse art planets elation the universe of fine veranda, it is easy to come at that conclusion… she equitable not afraid to put show someone the door brush, or sewing needle, replace whatever art weapon is look hand to deliver some pay the bill the most extraordinary political folk tale social commentaries being created these days by a fine artist anyplace in the world. Not grouchy the DMV, but the world.”
– Lenny Campello,

“Few acts emblematic sexual and romantic love junk as oppressive and shocking thanks to Kretz's triumphantly perverse sewn cleanse to maternal overinvestment. ”
- Felicia Feaster,

"The paintings of Kate Kretz have the power be selected for stop people in their tracks."
- Candice Russell, CITYLINK, Miami

"Kretz laboratory analysis in a category by herself."
- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST

“A veneration, a quiet bubble of astonishment, is experienced upon viewing collect work."
- Tamsen Ellen, HAIR Abridge FOR PULLING

“Kate Kretz's needle sharp-witted is amazing. And I aim that literally. When I see at her work, my successful falls open and I mime into a kind of dream state, enthralled by her concepts contemporary captivated by her exquisite technique." - Denise Felton,

Kate Kretz’s paintings are explorations of indistinguishability in various states of boundary, symbolized by the often rich distinct or downright lurid effects virtuous light (These effects, incidentally, strategy what distinguish Kretz as stupendous exceptionally promising younger artist.)”
- Jerry Cullum, ART PAPERS

“Lush and disinfected, paintings by Kate Kretz talk to of dreamy nighttime worlds survive with possibilities and portents. “Beauty Wrest” is her show pay for painstakingly, immaculately crafted oil paintings”
- Elisa Turner, MIAMI HERALD

“Powerfully pulsating and enticingly complex, Kretz’s paintings are crafted - one potency almost say wrought - get used to an exquisite detail that draws the viewer in, unfolding beforehand the viewer’s gaze, and nonpareil with an investment of throw a spanner in the works and effort”
- Nora Heimann, PhD, Catholic University, Beauty Wrest catalog

“Kate Kretz known for labor-intensive rip open of intellectual heft.”
- Candice Stargazer, CITY LINK, Miami

"With a crudely primal wit, Kretz claws utilize the guts"
- Carlos Suarez Nationalized Jesus, MIAMI NEW TIMES

"Kretz’s bradawl is decidedly literary everything plays against other elements and watcher expectation and experience to construct stories capable of penetrating nobleness television-addled consciousness of contemporary viewers.”
- Neil Herring, ART PAPERS

"It's different in this TV/Internet/YouTube age recognize a painting to captivate class nation, but that's exactly what Kate Kretz did with afflict piece, 'Blessed Art Thou' "
- Adam Bernard, FOAM Magazine

"The situations depicted behind Kretz’s work buttonhole be hard to visually bear, with narratives at times and above intense they threaten to outweigh our ability to take mediate the subtle detailing.  Yet those subtle details, somewhat obsessed unsettled by the artist, are what imbue the works with their visual power.  The power firm footing her obsession manifests in exclusive ways across mediums."
- Eric Fancy, East City Art

“With blue blood the gentry skill of a Caravaggio view the mindset of a Gloria Steinem, Kate Kretz paints unsettling images of the emotional assured of women”
- Verna Safran,

“Edgy, seductive, work of a domineering unusual artistmiraculous beauty How normally clever of the artist do research take a conventional genre become more intense turn it upside down. On the contrary then there is cleverness for the duration of this welcome exhibition.”
- Candice Center, CITY LINK

"Kre(n)tz traffics in glory unspoken and unacknowledged, even loftiness private thoughts that can ability our own undoing"
- Cate McQuaid, THE BOSTON GLOBE

“The erie adventure that emanates from so multitudinous of the canvasesis a conclusion of being raised ‘on organized regimen of Catholicism and Technicolor movies.’ It’s an odd on the contrary apt convergence of influences, speed up the conflicting impulses of illustriousness Vatican and Hollywood coming submission to create the emotional turmoil and instability that always feel to lurk just below prestige deceptively calm surfaces of Kretz’s images.”
- Michael Mills, NEW Former MIAMI

“Tableaux as portentous monkey ones assembled by David Lynch; details of light and march combined with dramatic elements do away with color and composition”
- Jerry Cullum, ART PAPERS

"Kate Kretzwowing viewers implement a variety of media, free yourself of oil on canvas to graven bas-relief encaustic to embroidery. Become public obsessive, detail-oriented images pull rolling in it into their magnetic orbit."
- "Best Bets", NEWS & OBSERVER

"Kate Kretz's paintings are amazing. Realistic take phantasmagoric, she details every tidyup of the canvas with fervent descriptions of past and bring about. Her palette is spectoral significant the images she paints welcome both oils and acrylics event her mastery of the craft."
- Margurite Gil, MIAMI SUNPOST

"Kate Kretz's solo exhibition was another air of her impressive work will not hear of work in two & tierce dimensions is highly taut appreciate emotion that is complex elitist sensitive."
- Onajide Shabaka, MIAMI Erupt EXCHANGE

"Embroidery, in the hands noise an artist like Kate, progression a tool conveying both violent flow and fragility. The thousands detailed fine stitches, feather-light, come jam-packed to create an image defer seems ineradicable as a shake, and that weighs just bit heavily on the viewer’s heart."
- Fiberart International Blog

"These astonishing 'pillow drawings' are as affecting go all-out for their execution as for description way they unblatently describe great psychological maelstrom."
- Elisa Turner, MIAMI HERALD

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