Bio
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Barbara Kilpatrick is a multidisciplinary visual artist working at the intersection of movement and the still object. Her current focus is to create figures and objects experienced as an imaginary or implied performance.
For over twenty years, her work was seen in the context of dance and multi-media performance, where her photographs, set and costume installations served as integral ingredients in the creation of each production. Now, performance memory persists but without the apparatus of theaters and staged productions.
Nearly Stationary (2022), an eight-week event commissioned by Hudson Hall in Hudson, New York, consisted of both an installation of sculpture, drawings, photographs and costumes, and performance by live dancers and musicians. In 2012, Kilpatrick created Bearskin, a performance for puppets and movement artists, commissioned by FIAF (French Institute / Alliance Française) in New York City. She received a BESSIE award (New York Dance and Performance Award) for “Outstanding Creative Achievement”, in collaboration with dancer-choreographer Vicky Shick, and has been supported by the MAP Fund and the New York Foundation for the Arts (with Vicky Shick and Elise Kermani.) She has also enjoyed residencies at the New Arts Program in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and at Cill Rialaig in Ballinskelligs, Ireland.