LATE
Kathy Drago
On View: February 18 - April 16, 2022 I Hallway Gallery
Opening Reception: 6-8 PM, Friday, February 18, 2022 I ALH Sculpture Garden*
Artist Talk: 2:00 - 4:00 PM, Saturday, February 19, 2022 I Hallway Gallery*
*Opening reception will be in-person and outdoors at the ALH Sculpture Garden. Masks and social distancing are required.
*Artist Talk: February artist talks will take place both in-person and virtually. The talk will be live-streamed via our social media accounts - more details to come.
Art League Houston (ALH) is proud to present Late, an exhibition of recent work by Houston-based Artist, Kathy Drago in the Hallway Gallery. Late features nearly 100 portraits of women, age 75 and up. Sourced from iPhone snapshots, social media posts, or grainy obituary photos, these portraits, which are painted on small, round-edged wood panels that evoke Kodak slides or Polaroid pictures in a family photo album, pay homage to women in their later years. With their direct gazes and faces cropped, the women seem to lean out from the wood panels, welcoming viewers into a conversation. Drago describes the paintings as a close look at her own mortality, sparked by the death of her mother in 2015. The format of the portrait invites not only a reckoning with aging, but an appreciation of wisdom in the accumulated years of the subjects.