My work is about interpreting the landscape. It is also about memory. My feelings about nature are visceral. I photograph "fringe" places- areas that are not inhabited by people, but that are rife with evidence of them. I also photograph places from my childhood that have stayed with me and evolved into strange, monochrome memories.
I am currently working on three different projects; Elutriate, Ghost Forests, and Understory.
Elutriate is based in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Growing up in the 70's and 80's, I had a fantasy about living there despite the dangerous and filthy nature of the area. I now return periodically to attempt to understand the attraction and feelings of security that I felt traversing this vast area as a child.
Ghost Forests is a project exploring the phenomena of dying coastal forests due to increased salinity levels, sea level rise, and other factors. This project is currently focused on the east coast from North Carolina to Massachusetts.
Understory is a project focused on the proliferation of non-native vines invading our forests.
I currently print on Japanese paper, hand coated with sulver emulsion. I shoot black and white film and handmade paper and glass negatives in multiple formats- 35mm, 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10 pinhole cameras as well as an 8x20 handmade pinhole camera. I am also revisiting an animation technique that I developed while attending SMFA.
Thank you for your interest.
Kathleen A.E. Donohoe
1967 Queens, NY
EDUCATION
2013 Workshop with Jack Spencer, Nashville, TN
2013 Albumen Workshop with Morgan Post, The Center for Alternative Photography, NY,NY.
2011 Carbon Printing Workshop with Lisa Elmaleh, The Center For Alternative Photography, NY,NY
1992-1995 BFA School of the Museum of Visual Arts, Boston/Tufts University (TA,Alternative Process Photography,'93 &94)
1988 College of the Atlantic (TA, trimester in Greece/Turkey)
1987 Rockport Wooden Boat School, Rockport, Maine
1986 College of the Atlantic
1985 OUTWARD BOUND, HIOBS Semester Program: Island Ecology in Maine, The Chesapeake Bay and the Florida Keys
EXHIBITIONS *solo
2020 "vistas", A Smith Gallery. Juror, S. Gayle Stevens. Director's Honorable Mention. Johnson City, Texas.
2016 Soho Photo's National Alternative Processes Photo Competition. Juror, Miriam Leuchter. Manhattan, NY.
2016 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Juror, Christopher James. Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.
2016 "Krappy Kamera Competition". Juror, Susan Burnstine. Soho Photo, Manhattan, NY.
2016 "Flawed. An Instant Film Exhibition". Juror, Michael Kirchoff. A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas.
2015 "Alternative Cameras: Pinholes to Plastic". Juror, Susan Burnstine. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT.
2015 "A Sense of Place- and Person". Group Show. Ethel Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
2015 Plastic Fantastic Show VI. Juror, Susan Burnstine. Lightbox Photographic, Astoria Oregon.
2013 *LEAVING DARK HORSE FARM and UNFATHOMABLE. Portland and Rochester, Portland, ME
*UNFATHOMABLE and Other Work. The Black Anchor, Blue Hill, ME
2004-2013 Gap represents owning and working an 87 acre farm in Maine.
2002 *OKAVANGA DELTA: RECOLLECTIONS. Mache Bistro, Bar Harbor, ME
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND OPEN. Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
2001 *ACADIA LANDSCAPES. Donohue's, Bar Harbor, ME
*VAN DYKE BROWN PRINTS: ITALY/IRELAND. The Lompoc Cafe, Bar Harbor, ME
SELECTED WORK. The Flounder Society, Bar Harbor, ME
SELECTED WORK. The Purple Press, Southwest Harbor, ME
2000 GROUP SHOW. Leapin' Lizzard Artisans, Town Hill, ME
*RIOT AND CIVIL COMMOTION. Watermark Gallery, Hulls Cove, ME
*DOMESTIC NON-VIOLENCE. Watermark Gallery, Hulls Cove, ME
*SELECTED WORK. The Riverside Cafe, Ellsworth, ME
1999 SELECTED WORK. Bar Harbor Village Green Art Show, Bar Harbor, ME (Honorable Mention)
*SELECTED WORK. Cafe This Way, Bar Harbor, ME
1997 DRAWING AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATHLEEN DONOHOE. Half Acre, St. Thomas, USVI
*SELECTED WORK. Rupununi, Bar Harbor, ME
1996 *SELECTED WORK. Richard Parks Gallery, Ellsworth, ME
*DRAWING AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATHLEEN DONOHOE. Morning Glory Cafe, Bar Harbor, ME
COLLECTIONS
The Davistown Museum, Liberty, ME
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Black and White Magazine Portfolio Edition, Excellence Award
2017 The Hand Magazine. https://www.facebook. com/The.HAND.magazine/ http://www.thehandmagazine.space/
2017 Diffusion IX Annual. https://onetwelvepublishing.com/marketplace/diffusion-volume-ix
2017 COAMagazine https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1413-elutriate-the-work-of-kathleen-donohoe-91
2017 Inside the Outside Group http://www.inside-the-outside.com/elutriate-kathleen-donohoe/
2016 Huffington Post h3/10/2016
2016 Another l Place Mag. Contemporary Landscape Photography
2015 4x4 Submission, On Landscape Magazine, Issue #99
2013 Black and White Magazine Portfolio Edition, Merit Award
2012 Black and White Magazine Portfolio Edition, Merit Award
2001 Words and Images Magazine, Portland ME
2000 Words and Images Magazine, Portland ME