Kate Yesberg
Overview
‘The ideas come into my imagination. Usually colours, combinations of colour, or simple shapes or compositions. But mostly I feel them, I feel the energy I want them to carry.’
Kate Yesberg is an abstract painter based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand.
Yesberg's paintings comprise elaborate compositions of colour and strong geometric form, and are often large-scale. She names each series for its intrinsic energy; a mood, feeling, or experience that she is exploring and trying to capture in her work.
The paintings are built up layer by layer from a black canvas as an act of devotional labour that is performed by hand, without tape. The effect is striking geometric patterns which from afar suggest hard-lines and manicured structures, though up close reveal the hand that rendered them and its human imperfection.
Works
Exhibitions
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Kate Yesberg | Levi I - VII
{Suite} Ponsonby 30 Aug - 23 Sep 2023{Suite} is pleased to present Kate Yesberg's new exhibition, Levi I - VII. This is Kate's fourth solo show at {Suite} and the first group of paintings in her...Read more -
Kate Yesberg | Nina XVIII - XXIV
{Suite} Wellington 22 Dec 2022 - 3 Feb 2023 -
Kate Yesberg | Nina XIII-XVII
{Suite} Ponsonby 5 - 30 Jul 2022This is Kate Yesberg’s first solo exhibition at {Suite} Ponsonby and a continuation of her series Nina. Comprising elaborate compositions of colour and strong geometric form, these new large-scale paintings...Read more -
Kate Yesberg | Nina
{Suite} Wellington 1 - 23 Dec 2021Pursuing a geometric mode of abstraction, Yesberg's paintings navigate dynamics between tension and release, finding a balance between these states to take on a meditative rhythm. Built layer upon layer...Read more -
Kate Yesberg and Geoffrey Notman
{Suite} Ponsonby 28 Jan - 20 Feb 2021
News
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Kate Yesberg
Dominion Post & stuff.co.nz December 15, 2021Kate Yesberg featuring in the Dominion and on stuff.co.nz 'Self-taught, Yesberg has degrees in law, anthropology and religion, but no formal training in art. She...Read more -
Kate Yesberg
House & Garden Magazine December 1, 2020Kate Yesberg is the newest addition to the {Suite} Gallery stable of artists. Her upcoming exhibition in Auckland in January 2021 is featured in House...Read more
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