ARTIST\'S RESUME
KATHRYN COOK HERNANDEZ
Kathryn Cook Hernandez, a native of Urich, Missouri, (recently returned from San Pedro Sula, Honduras) began her artistic career in 1980 after a dynamic and inspiring figure drawing course at a local community college.  Her artistic trajectory has been inspired by artists that include classical masters as well as modern and post-modern artists, from Rembrandt to O\'Keefe and Jasper Johns, John Wiley.  The artist has worked in various mediums, such as oil, watercolor, graphite, charcoal, pastel, ceramics and sculpture and currently mixed medias.  The artist has, also, been an art educator in The Escuela Internacional SanPedrana, a bilingual school in Honduras.
EDUCATION
Masters of Education                             Framingham State College, Framingham, Mass,  2004
Bachelors in Interior Design                 University of Central Missouri,Warrensburg, Mo.  1967-1971
Courses in Drawing and Painting         Johnson County Community College,Overland Park, Ks  1980-1981
EXHIBITIONS
 
University of Central Missouri, 1971
Johnson County Community College, 1981
Centro Cultural Sampedrana Honduras, 1996
\"Interpretacions de 7 Mujeres\", Centro Social Hondureno Arabe, Honduras, 1996
Hotel Copant\'l, Honduras, 1996
Jardin Del Arte, Museo de Antropoligia, Honduras, 1996
Exposicion de Pinture Artisitica y Esculture, El Ahorro Hondureno, Honduras, 1997
Expo USA, Honduras, 1997
\"La Mujer Pinta\", Salon Consistorial de La Municipalidad, Honduras, 1998
Parque de Las Americas, Honduras, 1998, 1999
Arte Contemporaneo, Centro Cultural Sampedrana, Honduras, 1999
Casa De La Artista, Honduras, 1999
Guadalupe Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1999
Arte del Pais, Banco Del Pais, Honduras, 1999
\"Leyendo una Historia de Mujeres\", Instituto Hondureno de Cultura Interamericana, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 2000
\"Mujeres...Pintura & Poesia\", Central Cultural Sampedrana, Honduras, 2001
Stage Set \"The Four Seasons\", CC Dance Ballet, Honduras, 2001
\"Tres Formas, Un Punto\", Central Cultural Sampedrana, 2001
Salon del Instituto Hondureno de Cultura Interamerican, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2002
Opus Gallery, Baon Rouge, Louisiana, 2002
Exposicion \"El Arte Y la Paz en Honduras\", Banco del Pais, Honduras, 2003, 2004
Salon Nacional de Arte, Centro Cultural Sampedrano, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
 
COLLECTIONS
 
Adolfo and Laura Martinez, Honduras
Carlin Raffi, Honduras
Joan Martinez, Honduras
Leticia de Peters, Honduras
Jose Zuniga, Honduras
Myrna de Castro, Honduras
Marluce Morales, Honduras
Sala de las Americas, Aeropuerto San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Marco Medina Guillen, Honduras
Max Cooper,  Missouri, USA
Walton Y Eunice Orizola, Honduras
Gabrielle Popovich, Indiana, USA
Dr. Antonio C. Petrelli, Jesi, Italia
Christopher Wittwer, Honduras
Brian Briamonte, Louisiana, USA
Dra, Giovanna Moina, Honduras
Scott Blume, Pennsylvania
 
AWARDS
Honorable Mention, Salon Nacional de Arte, Centro Cultural Sampedrana, 2005
ASSOCIATIONS
Member, AMAH, Association of Womem Artists of Honduras, San Pedro Sula
Member, AHAVI, Honduran Association of Visual Authors
ARTIST STATEMENT
All forms contain a shared spirit separated from eternity by a thin ephemeral line: held within by their physicality.  Through the arts, the search for essence of being, nonetheless, elusive in its iridescent like quality, is pursued.  This implies that nothing is clear and easily perceived.  All is changeable, integrating ultimately, as part of a common spirit.
Individuals cannot restrain this evolution of spirit, neither their own nor others, and finally, can only respond with empathy to the human condition.
Paradoxically, the thin line, expresses all, the spirit within and the form without.