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Opening Reception | Holdfast: After Anna Atkins
Holdfast: after Anna Atkins is a series of 49 prints of marine algae hand-made by me via the contemporary DASS transfer process onto optimized Yupo paper.
Inspired by Anna Atkins’use of the then new Cyanotype photographic process, Kathy Lovas printed her series of algae via the now new DASS transfer process to create a homage to Atkins.
After earning her B.S. degree in Biology, Lovas was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to conduct research at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Biological Station. She spent a summer on San Juan Islands collecting marine algae from the surrounding intertidal area. She then pressed each specimen onto a piece of absorbent cotton rag paper and carefully saved them for all the following passing years until the present day (1966-2026). As her interests evolved over the subsequent intervening years, she earned an MFA in Art in 1995 with a specific interest in photography. Her research led her to Anna Atkins' Cyanotype prints of marine algae, which Atkins collected over one hundred years ago from the intertidal waters off the coast of England.
Kathy Lovas was born in Duluth, Minnesota and grew up in the northern Wisconsin small towns of Rice Lake and Rhinelander. She holds a B.S. degree in biology from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana and an MFA in photography from Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX. She was a 1991 fellow of the American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar at New York University, and a 1995 recipient of a Mid-America Arts Alliance National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in photography. Kathy has been a resident artist at Project Row Houses in Houston, Connemara Conservancy in Allen, TX, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. Selected solo exhibitions of her work include Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Galveston Art Center, and Women and Their Work in Austin, as well as site-specific solo installations at DiverseWorks, Houston, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas at Beaumont, the Arlington Museum of Art, UT San Antonio Satellite Space at Blue Star, Warehouse Theater in Greenville, SC, and numerous group exhibitions throughout the region.
