"Mostly the Good Parts", a two-person exhibition featuring new work by Laura Konecne and Nate Ditzler
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Fri, Mar 6, 2026 - Fri, Apr 10, 2026 11am - 5pm
Location
K Space Contemporary
623 N Chaparral St
Details
K Space Contemporary is proud to present Mostly the Good Parts, a two-person exhibition featuring new work by Laura Konecne and Nate Ditzler. Bringing together a variety of media, the exhibition unfolds as a playful interplay of pop-infused color and soft, rounded contours. While each artist maintains a distinct voice, both share an interest in hand-built processes, tactile surfaces, and transforming familiar shapes into objects that feel at once approachable and slightly offbeat. Their work meets in a common language of material curiosity, humor, and carefully crafted form.
Laura Konecne, a studio artist and educator, works primarily in traditional craft materials. Having grown up between Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, and Pyeongtaek, South Korea, she earned her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and now lives and works in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Growing up in small apartments, Konecne developed a deep awareness of space as a precious commodity—an understanding that continues to shape her sculptural practice. Konecne’s undulating, organic “cage forms,” carved from wood or constructed from thin-gauge metal wire, adhere to a principle of spatial economy. Each labor-intensive work, in a sense, earns the space it occupies. The artist views these sculptures as specimens from an imagined terrain. Recently, she has expanded this world through small abstract landscape paintings that suggest softer, more idealized environments from which these forms might have emerged.
Raised on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, Nate Ditzler holds multiple degrees from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and an MFA from West Virginia University. His work, exhibited nationally and internationally, explores the human condition through experimental material processes. He currently teaches at Del Mar College.
In his work, Ditzler finds meaning in the overlooked moments of everyday life. Combining handmade and slip-cast ceramics with fabricated mixed-media elements, Ditzler creates scenes where familiar imagery meets subtle surrealism, inviting viewers to enter through their own subjective experiences and reconsider the complexities embedded in the ordinary. Drawing on the playful simplicity of children’s book illustrations and comics, the work pairs a minimalist aesthetic with understated humor. Amorphous, blob-like forms often appear as surrogates for the self—fluid and evolving figures that reflect identity as perpetually unresolved and shaped by daily experience.
K Space Contemporary is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to presenting and promoting contemporary art. This programming is made possible through support from AEP Texas and grant funding from the Coastal Bend Community Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.
Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday 11 am to 5 pm and Sunday 12 to 4 pm. We are located at 623 N. Chaparral Street in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. To learn more about the artist, the exhibition, and other K Space programming, please visit www.kspacecontemporary.org or follow us on Instagram or Facebook @kspacecontemporary.
