We welcome you to join us on 3rd Friday in February as Kiosk presents Beloved, a solo exhibition by Kate Clements, and the final show before the gallery’s closure. At a moment shaped by endings, this exhibition offers space to consider care, grieve loss, and give thanks for what has been shared. Centered on an installation of fresh cut flowers, Beloved transforms gradually over time, shifting and decaying throughout the course of the exhibition.
STATEMENT
Beloved’s first iteration was in 2016, when Clements began collecting flower arrangements from funerary homes in Philadelphia. Understanding them as final farewells from families to loved ones, she began placing the flowers in a glass vitrine. It became a modest, if ultimately futile, act of care. What emerged was not a fixed memorial, but a living system shaped by time, inviting viewers to pause and return as the flowers lose their discrete identities and settle into a cloud of organic residue.
The work considers how loss slowly moves from abstraction into lived experience, becoming something carried rather than resolved. Beloved approaches mourning not as closure, but as a quiet, ongoing negotiation with absence—one that accumulates gently, continuously evolves, and never fully settles.
BIO
Kate Clements (b. 1989) is a glass artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation. Her
work is informed by the histories of ornament and the use of nature in the beautification of space, tracing
how aesthetic ideals are formed, coveted, and undone. Drawing on botanical imagery and decorative traditions, Clements treats beauty as inherently unstable—reflecting broader systems of taste, value,
and power.
Through lush surfaces and immersive forms, she investigates impermanence, decadence, and excess, allowing for seduction and unease to coexist. Ultimately, these works linger as fragile propositions: luminous, elusive, and perpetually on the verge of dissolution.
Clements holds an MFA in Glass from Tyler School of Art & Architecture and a BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited nationally and abroad, including the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, Bellevue Arts Museum, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, S12 Galleri (Norway), Uprise Art (NYC), and UrbanGlass (NYC). She has been awarded residencies at Studios Inc., the Charlotte Street Foundation, the Museum of Arts & Design, Pilchuck Glass School, and S12 Galleri.
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IG: @kate__clements
ARTIST’S RECEPTION
Friday, February 20, 2026
6-9 pm CST
OPEN HOURS
By Appointment
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