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I rarely get a chance to show my artists books so I'm excited for to have the opportunity to show a selection from 2010 to 2017 in the Atrium Gallery at the Lunder Arts Center in Cambridge.

Haruki Murakami: Men without Women

Out today across the globe...Men without Women by Haruki Murakami

"Dreams are the kinds of things you can … borrow and lend out."

"Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. There are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all."

The fabulous design team at Vintage Books wrote a blog post about the cover process, you can check out what they have to say here and read the official release from Penguin Books UK! 

And check out the story behind "The Frequency of Falling," the print used on the cover!

NEW Website

New layout...new work...& never before seen work from the archives...happily introducing the new www.katecastelli.com!

Check out my latest collage series, new artist book, updated and expanded sketchbook spreads, an experimental book from the archives, and an artist book that was included in my MFA thesis...

I've also updated the interview and press links in the elsewhere section.

Check it out!

Big Red and Shiny Review

"Kate Castelli’s small, meditative canvases (Not a Circle II, III, and Ochre Alphabet, 2015) are exercises in mark making, with a watercolor gradation of tally-lines that recall Paul Klee and Lee Ufan."

Thrilled to be featured in the Big Red and Shiny review of the Boston Center for the Arts 24th Biennial Drawing Show.

You can read the entire article here!

Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize

My book Razzle Dazzle was selected to be included in the 2015 Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize. The biennial show features over 200 books from 45 different countries and is up through October 31st at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield, UK.

More info at http://artistsbookprize.co.uk/

BCA 24th Annual Drawing Show

Ochre Drawing Series | ink on 19th century paper, dimensions range from 7.5x9" to 10x12" | 2013-2015

I'm very excited that four of my drawings from the Ochre Series were selected to be in the Boston Center for the Arts 24th Annual Drawing Show. The opening reception is Friday October 9th from 6 to 8 pm at the Mills Gallery.

More information can be found at http://www.bcaonline.org/visualarts/mills-gallery/upcoming-exhibitions.html

Website update!

A long overdue website update. What's new? The full process and final edition of the color reduction prints Ode to Pluto, a new and ongoing drawing series Not a Circle, and the dizzying Razzle Dazzle book.

I've also updated and expanded the Sea of Lines drawing series and the Ephemeral section!

Check it out!

The Sketchbook Project World Tour

"Destined to go down as one of the era's most astonishing global art projects, the Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook Project has, in less than a decade, amassed more than thirty thousand sketchbooks submitted by people of all ages and artistic abilities from more than 130 countries. Bursting with color, vivid imagery, and bouts of whimsy mixed with deeply intimate insights, the sketchbooks capture the texture of personal experience in a dizzying variety of illustrative styles and layouts that run the gamut from street portraits to stream-of-consciousness doodles, comics, and pop-ups. The Sketchbook Project World Tour presents the most compelling, surprising, and visually stunning examples from this one-of-a-kind artistic treasury."

Available today in bookstores and online!

Word + Image

Prints from the Tiny Little series and my accordion book This/That were selected to be included in Word + Text, the 2015 Small Works Salon at Chandler Gallery.

Find out more at http://www.maudmorgan.com/gallery/smallworks2015_call.htm...

The Sketchbook Project Book

I'm thrilled to be included in the The Sketchbook Project World Tour book, published by Princeton Architectural Press in May 2015.

My sketchbook is also featured on the front cover!

Learn more and pre-order your copy at The Sketchbook Project...

You can see some of the sketchbooks I've submitted to the project here!

#GLVBXAOTM

New Website

Very pleased to announce the newly redesigned katecastelli.com...now with more circles! 

What's new? Check out recent woodblock prints in the ongoing Horizon Line series, and explore the Ephemeral fragments, threads, prints and drawings!

Featured on Daily Candy

"The local artist unveils a mesmerizing abstract collection of wood block circles printed on 19th-century book covers..."

I'm completely thrilled to be featured on Daily Candy's Boston Weekend Guide! Check it out here.

Opening reception: Thursday February 20th, 5-7pm at Twelve Chairs Boston, 581 Tremont St., South End!

Kate Castelli at Twelve Chairs

Kate Castelli: Prints & Drawings

25 January -- 26 April 2014

opening reception Thursday, 20 February, 5-7pm

12Stairs Gallery at Twelve Chairs Boston

581 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02118
http://www.twelvechairsboston.com/

(above)
The Known Universe III
woodblock on 19th century book cover, unique impression
10 x 12.25"

Tonight

Join us tonight from 7 to 9 pm for the opening reception of...
What is Left Unsaid: Caroline Board & Kate Castelli

Voltage Coffee & Art
295 3rd St, Cambridge, MA 02142
Kendall Square T stop on the Red Line
http://voltagecoffee.com/ 


(above)
This Too Shall Pass
woodblock on 19th century paper with handstitching
9.5 x 7"
copyright Kate Castelli 2013

A collaborative show...What is Left Unsaid

What is Left Unsaid: Caroline Board & Kate Castelli

Voltage Coffee and Art 
295 3rd St, Cambridge, MA 02142 
Kendall Square T stop on the Red Line

October 6th through December 1st, reception Friday October 18th, 7-9pm

http://voltagecoffee.com
http://carolineboard.com/ 
http://www.katecastelli.com/

"We began as neighbors at the studio in the MFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. In the first year our paths crossed frequently in courses, lectures, and critique. Out of frustration in the studio during the summer we began to work collaboratively on a small-scale book. We both enjoyed the process and it laid the foundation to work collaboratively on books, prints, and drawings during our final year in the program. We decided to show together for our thesis not only because of the collaborative work, but also because our sensibilities and visual language compliment each other. Fragments, memory, and the duality of presence and absence are all strong elements in both our work.

Showing together continues the collaboration we have inside and outside of the studio. There are distinct voices in both bodies of work, but together they engage in a conversation about constructing the fragments of memory and observation into something new. "

Website Update

I updated my website with new work from the last 6 months (and my thesis show) including
my obsessive line drawings, circle woodblock prints on book covers, and recent sketches from Italy.

You can check all the new work at http://www.katecastelli.com!

Dig this!

I was recently interviewed by the Dig Boston about my thesis exhibition at Fourth Wall Project. You can check out the article online and in print this week!

http://digboston.com/experience/2013/04/end-page-books-and-works-on-paper-by-kate-castelli-art-boston-smfa/

The calm before the storm...

A photo taken in the midst of installing my thesis show yesterday.

I was evacuated out of the gallery in downtown Boston. I was fortunate to be okay amid the chaos and uncertainty. Many cannot say the same and my thoughts and prayers are with them. Monday was a scary, sad, heartbreaking day in a city I've called home for almost a decade. I still love you Boston.

Collaborative Circles

Caroline Board and I sat down one day in the printshop and cut up all sorts of proofs, ghost prints, and experimental prints to make this latest collaborative book. We completed it in one afternoon.

Untitled (Collaboration No. 6)
accordion with hard covers
woodblock and lithograph
5.5 x 36" opened

In addition to our collaborative books, we've printed our first collaborative edition! The venn diagram inspired print was created after we each carved one side of a circular woodblock. My side is printed in yellow ochre and Caroline's is black.

This print is currently on view at the Atrium Gallery at SMFA as part of the juried Print and Paper Show.


Untitled (K + C)
two color woodblock
edition of 8, 18x24" 


Our collaborative books and prints will be on view during our thesis show at Fourth Wall Project  April 16-27th.