kathryn kert green: line-storm
August 2, 2025 - September 20, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 2nd from 5-7pm
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm
Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco
re.riddle is pleased to present Line-Storm, a solo exhibition of works by Kathryn Kert Green. The opening reception is on Saturday, August 2nd from 5-7pm. The exhibition runs through September 20th, 2025.
Kathryn Kert Green, Untitled, Indigo Blue Prismacolor on Arches drawing paper, 45 x 68 in
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Kathryn Kert Green’s drawings begin with a mark, then a pen line, and from there, a flurry of edges that treat line as object: material and dimensional. Her lines do not describe so much as accumulate. They hover between material and idea, mark and meaning, tracing the moment where shape begins to appear, then dissipates.
Kert Green’s solo exhibition of new works on paper, Line-Storm, explores line not as a means of depiction but rather as a mode of inquiry. Her compositions circle the question of form itself: What counts as a thing? When does an edge emerge? How is shape apprehended at all? In this, there is the sense that depiction is always on the verge of becoming, never quite fixed. Her work is not concerned with image or expression in any conventional sense, but with the character of line: what it does, what it sets in motion, what it holds in suspension.
What results is a kind of vibration and tension held between media. The line, as it moves, does not define shape so much as explore the sensation of presence. One enters these drawings not by deciphering them, but by attuning with their shifts in density, rhythm, and weight. The line becomes a conduit, a boundary, a precise course of thought, a path imagined between two points, a fragment, an unfinished phrase, a melody arranged. Kert Green’s practice is not illustrative; it is phenomenological.
In Line-Storm, Kert Green asks us to consider the line as the edge of comprehension itself: felt before it is understood, seen before it is named. Each mark holds the force of thought taking shape: tentative, searching, and alive.
Artworks
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Kathryn Kert Green, #1, gel pen on drawing paper, 30 ½ x 20 ½ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #2, gel pen on drawing paper, 30 ½ x 20 ½ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #3, gel pen on drawing paper, 19 ¾ x 27 ½ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #4, gel pen on drawing paper, 22 ½ x 30 in
Kathryn Kert Green, #5, gel pen on drawing paper, 25 ½ x 16 ¼ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #6, gel pen on drawing paper, 30 ½ x 20 ¼ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #7, gel pen on drawing paper, 30 ½ x 20 ½ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #8, gel pen on drawing paper, 30 ½ x 20 ½ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #9, gel pen on drawing paper, 30 ¾ x 20 ¼ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #11, gel pen on drawing paper, 20 ½ x 30 ½ in
Kathryn Kert Green, #19, gel pen on drawing paper, 19 ¾ x 25 ½ in
Kathryn Kert Green, Edges 1, gel pen on drawing paper, 30 ¾ x 20 ¼ in
Kathryn Kert Green, Utterance, Indigo Blue Prismacolor on Arches drawing paper, 45 x 55 ½ in