Carole Kunstadt

Kunstadt’s works often invoke a metaphysical quality. Her works reference antique books, bookplates, music manuscripts and artifacts – deconstructing paper and text and using it in metaphorical ways. Through the exploration of the materials, history, memory and time merge in a hybrid form.

Born in Boston (1951), with a childhood in a small New England town, Kunstadt received a BFA, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT. and continued with postgraduate studies at the Akademie der Bildenen Künste, Munich, Germany. Nine years ago she re-entered a familiar landscape as in her youth, moving to the Hudson Valley, having lived for 35 years in NYC. The PBS/OFF BOOK Book Arts mini-documentary features Kunstadt in the segment, Transforming the Sacred. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4fLk-XeeI