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In December, 2007, Kavanagh exhibited nine figurative sculptures in Miami’s Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach. The sculptures celebrated the MUSE as a source of artistic inspiration. Shots of individual Muse sculptures are found in the Muse section of this website
Earlier in 2007, Kavanagh participated in OPEN 10, the 10th annual International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations in Venice-Lido. Co-curated by Achille Bonita Olivia, Allana Heiss and Chang Tsong-zung, under the Auspices of Arte Communications and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, OPEN 10 featured the work of 46 artists from 21 countries.
In 2005, Kavanagh was honored to represent the US Virgin Islands at the 51st INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. Five bronze sculptures from her Shape of Time series were the focal point of an exhibition that brought attention to the Virgin Islands and the seminal treatise on art history written by her father, George Kubler, in 1961. Also in 2005, one of her large bronze castings, Vertical Edge Form II, was awarded the first F. Scott Fitzgerald prize by John Hightower at the Port Warwick Art & Sculpture Festival in Newport News, Virginia. Vertical Edge Form II was recently installed in the entry courtyard of the Dwight School in Englewood, New Jersey.
In 2004, four of Kavanagh’s sculptures were on display at OPENASIA in Venice-Lido in an exhibition curated by Paolo De Grandis and Chang Tsong-zung. OPENASIA featured the work of 43 artists from 20 countries.
Kavanagh has had four solo exhibitions in New York City. Her sculptures have been shown at the Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, the Abigail Adams Smith Museum, New York, NY, the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT, the Audubon Birdcraft Museum in Fairfield, CT, the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Stamford, CT, the University of Hartford Museum in Hartford, CT and the Yale Medical School Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. In 2000, Kavanagh won the Amidor Memorial Award for Stone Sculpture at Art of The Northeast at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, CT.
Kavanagh received a BA in Art History from Barnard College and an MA from Columbia University. Listed in Who’s Who In American Art, Kavanagh is a member of the Connecticut Women Artists and a colleague of the National Sculpture Society.
Kavanagh works out of studios in Norwalk, CT and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She is represented by the Blue Mountain Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001.
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