From above, I am a golden apple bobbing in a five-gallon bucket.

Works by Kathryn Lien
at The Arts League
Opening Reception February 27, 2025 6:30PM
The Arts League

“I think of all the rules … telling you to stop doing things, which are the should-nots, as creating a kind of frame, if you think of it in space rather than in time, or you think of a frame in time rather than in space, or you could think of it as a proscenium around a stage, or you could think of it as a break after a line of poetry.

These are things that create meaning, They bound time and say this is going to be special. Now we’re going to make something extraordinary out of the ordinary.”
Judith Shulevitz

Kathryn Lien is an artist and sculptor living and working in Philadelphia. Pulling from traditional and historic craft objects, mythologies, and narrative techniques, her installation work points at magnifying lens at our interior worlds. Kate works as the Associate Director of Undergraduate Fine Arts and Design at University of Pennsylvania and serves on the Board of Directors of The Arts League. She received her MFA from the VCU Sculpture + Extended Media Program in 2018 and a BFA from the University of Washington 3D4M Program in 2012.