Mildred Kaye

About the artist

Mildred Kaye: Romantic Surrealist Digital Prints, Screen Prints, Pastels and Water Colors. Mildred Kaye is an internationally recognized artist whose pictures have won her recognition for their originality and mythic character. Her images have graced the walls of academic and corporate settings as well as commercial galleries.

Kaye is a visionary artist who portrays the material and spiritual worlds as contiguous and at times overlapping. Her work seems to reflect a spirit of classical paganism enlivened by a cosmic vision and sense of humor. She has been described as a Romantic Surrealist. Some of her prints draw on childhood memories. Mythology lends inspiration for other works which she fashions into dreamscapes of classical serenity.

About the work

Critical acclaim has included interpretations of her work in The Record, The Star Ledger, the Leader Free Press, ArtSpeak Magazine, Manhattan Arts International, Gallery Guide, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has won numerous awards and is well known in the New York Metropolitan area.

Artist's statement

“I reach into the worlds of Imagination and myth for visions to insert into my own artistic journey. To impart reality to this fantasy world, I resort to the Surrealist’s oldest tricks: craftsmanship and realistic rendering. Craftsmanship turns Illusion into Reality.

To paraphrase Thomas Edison, my creations depend on 40% inspiration (the vision); 30% perspiration (the craftsmanship and rendering), and 30% composition.

My imagery would be meaningless if it were woven into a print or painting that did not work visually. My first step is to close my eyes and let the image construct itself. Although I play around with line, depth, value and color, color is my favorite playground. I revel in it. Over the years, the quality of my color has changed. I can almost date one of my prints by the quality of that year’s color. It has been soft, it has been cold, more recently it has run to hot and fiery. I am beginning to see myself switch over to lighter more glowing color. Only time will tell.”

Selected Venues:

The Ben Shahn Gallery in William Paterson College; Morris Museum; The Audubon Annual; the Knickerbocker Annual; Lever House; Lincoln Center; Riverside Interfaith Center; Sotheby-Park-Benet; Art Institute of California, San Francisco; Williamsburg Art and Historic Center, and, internationally, Sao Paolo, Brazil, Kamakuro, Japan, England, Italy, Germany and Spain.

Listings:

Kaye is listed in Who’s Who in American Art; Who’s Who in the East, The Printworld Directory of Contemporary Prints, and The National Museum of Women in the Arts and the British Based “2000 Designers and Illustrators”.

Affiliations:

Society for Art of Imagination, (London), National Association of Women Artists (Vice President); The Print Consortium; Studio Montclair.

Collections:

PBS; The Leonard Bocour Company; Indiana University; Montclair State University; Nabisco Brands; The Bergen Museum; New Jersey State Board of Education.

Contact information

Mildred Kaye
87 Kern Place
Saddle Brook NJ 07663
Email: millyk@artniks.com
Web: www.artniks.com/milly/index.html

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