Kate Coxmiller

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• KCM's paintings are explorations of the 'singular' image: the vision of an object or event that is so unusual or unexpected; so charged with affect or import, that it 'stands apart' -suspended outside of the normal sequence of time and the customary coordinates of understanding. These images stand apart even from their owners. Her paintings present us with isolated instants; stills or snapshots of life that have been cut adrift from their moorings in a particular, personal history. They are, therefore, both inexplicable but also strangely intimate, since they address the viewer as a familiar. They involve us in the profoundly uncanny act of recognising something that is apparently unknown.