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Niki Ketchman
Corinthian
Niki Ketchman
Corinthian
- Galvanized steel pipe, steel rods, steel leaves, aluminum wire, paint
- 10’H x 3’Diameter, approx. 200lbs
- Four women stakes are hammered into the ground at the periphery of the base. Steel washers are hammered into the stakes overlapping the base of the sculpture. If leaves become embedded in the sculpture they have to be burned out and the sculpture repainted.
Corinthian can be thought of as an architectural column, a two-sided skirt or a two-sided flower. The wire imitates the drawn line and enables the emphasis on detail to be executed.
I have had one-person museum exhibitions at the Katonah Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and have been included in group shows at other museums including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Bruce Museum, Grounds for Sculpture, The Hammond Museum, The Fairfield University Art Museum and the Neuberger Museum of Art.
I have exhibited at a number of galleries. Among them are Kouros Gallery, NYC where I had four one-person show and was included in numerous group shows from 1993 to 2004, the Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, the Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven and the Gallery New World, Dusseldorf, Germany.
My work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, The Boston Globe, Art New England, The Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Arts Magazine and the Journal News. Essays about my work also appear in the Museum catalogs where I have exhibited.
My work is in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, Picker Art Gallery, (Colgate University), Grounds for Sculpture, DeCordova Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Housatonic Museum of Art, CUNY at Staten Island, Westport School System, Westport Historical Society, several corporate collections and many private collections.