KYLE COTTIER

KYLE COTTIER | DIALOGUES BETWEEN DESTRUCTION AND CREATION

Nature is abundant with sturdy patterns, constantly circulating between function and desire, growth, and decay—nothing remains unchanged.

Kyle Cottier’s interdisciplinary practice is rooted in the metaphysical study of the underlying patterns and principles that engender the uncompromising touch of mortality, focusing the mind on the transient beauty of impermanence.
His sculptural work intuits a poetic approach to space. Choreographing compelling spatial narratives that exploit the tension between absence and form to achieve a potent sense of ephemerality.

Illumination of the vascular infrastructure shared by trees and the human body is vital to Kyle’s material foundation. Wood, more than any other medium, testifies to an invisible human presence.

He works with wood-scrap from industrial processes to ignite the senses and reinforce a profound relationship to our environment by establishing dialogues between destruction and creation.

Working with repetition of shape to transform the material, he creates biomorphic forms that blend Nature and human activities into a seamless whole.

Kyle Cottier was born in 1993 in Louisville, KY. In 2014 he was awarded a gallery space at the New York Studio Residency Program in DUMBO and received his BFA in 2015 from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Cottier has shown work extensively in the US at major galleries and museums from the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati to the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY.

His work is a part of the 21c Museum’s collection and has shown at their locations in Oklahoma City, OK, Bentonville, AK, Cincinnati, OH, and Louisville, KY.

Kyle’s sculpture, Sometimes I wish we were an eagle, 2019,
was commissioned and featured in the Carter Center’s Foundation and live auction in 2019, where he raised over 17K for international health and peace.

He has had work published in the Hudson Valley magazine. Chronogram, through Artrepreneur’s online publication and, was awarded first prize for sculpture in their 2018 competition, where he installed work at Lazy Susan Gallery in Manhattan.

Kyle currently lives and works in Hudson Valley, NY.

Read the full article on Art Market Magazine Issue #48