Kovak’s 23-foot painting “Permutations” and two companion works appear in “Aquachrome,” Manifest Gallery’s biennial exhibition celebrating contemporary watercolor.
Professor Kristen Letts Kovak is 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 features 19 works chosen through a blind jury process from 164 submissions representing 20 states, Puerto Rico, and three countries. Kovak presents a 23-foot painted scroll titled Permutations, a study of shifting order and emergent pattern that moves fluidly between control and chance. Alongside the scroll, her two smaller Bundle paintings imagine organic forms that are part animal, vegetable, and mineral — vivid mutations that take up space with unapologetic curiosity.
Top: Permutations. Bottom: Bundles