Kovak’s 23-foot painting “Permutations” and two companion works appeared in “Aquachrome,” Manifest Gallery’s biennial exhibition celebrating contemporary watercolor.

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Professor Kristen Letts Kovak was among 13 artists selected for “Aquachrome,” Manifest Gallery’s biennial exhibition exploring the expressive range of watercolor and related media. On view through October 24, the show featured 19 works chosen through a blind jury process from 164 submissions representing 20 states, Puerto Rico, and three countries.

Kovak’s 23-foot painted scroll, Permutations, won the Grand Jury Award for Season 22, an honor that recognizes one exceptional work across all current gallery exhibitions. The piece examines shifting order and emergent pattern, moving fluidly between control and chance. Alongside the scroll, her two smaller Bundle paintings explored organic forms — part animal, vegetable, and mineral — creating vivid, unapologetically curious mutations that claim space and invite viewers into their imaginative world.

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