Artwork copyright Kathy Fridstein. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Home, 1988

Kathy Fridstein
(American, born 1953)

Location: Sunnyslope Elementary, Port Orchard

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Home is a pastel drawing by artist Kathy Fridstein. It is part of a group of pastel studies for mixed media paintings resembling archeological fragments. She notes, “In this body of work I employ ancient pictographic languages, traditional hobo signs, my own invented pictographs and colors to create a language of emotions and ideas. With ancient myths as a source, I use this vocabulary to explore ideas about the home and family…I use pictographs that symbolize pregnancy, birth, family, life, and death. The little circles were inspired by drawings from my two year old daughter.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with South Kitsap School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Photographer Kathy Fridstein creates compositions that explore the gesture and meaning of graffiti, petroglyphs, and other symbolic forms and methods of pictorial communication.

Fridstein received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1976. She served as a teaching artist for Seattle's Art in the Public Schools Program and a photography instructor for the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.