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Artist Statement
My artwork is involved with interpreting the land, seeing its space in terms of a design of abstracted, simple landscape pieces, expressing the movement and discovering connections in how the pieces fit together. Determining symbols that create movement, and discovering images that will visually and emotionally maneuver the viewer is an integral part of the creative process for me.
I enjoy working on location. I like what happens with the ideas that are generated when I am out there. New shapes and marks and ideas develop. I might start in the fall standing in front of a forest and painting orange trees, but wind up realizing it is a refuge, that the small animals are starting to hunker down to survive, and the painting then becomes about safe places in hard times.
Layering landscape imagery with symbols of movement and direction has become a new personal direction in my artwork. Using printmaking and mixed media painting allows me to experiment with creating depth of imagery to correspond with the depth of the personal experience of a particular place.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS________________________________________________
American Academy of Women Artists, charter member, VP 02-03;Board 02-05
Seattle Print Arts
Print Arts Northwest
Northwest Watercolor Society, signature member
Women Painters of Washington
Pleine Aire Painters of Washington
Corvidae Press
PUBLICATIONS___________________________________________________________________
“A Common Language” Seattle/Shenzhen, August 2007
Artists Magazine 2007, Mixed Media Paintings, “When One Is Not Enough”
Art Panorama 2006, China, article on printmaking exhibit in China
“Conversation, Beyond Limited” Exhibition of Prints from Seattle Print Arts 05
An Enduring Legacy, Women Painters of Washington, May 2005 (DavidMartin)
“Artists” Magazine ,July 2004,”Think Like an Artist”(Cathy Woo)
“Branching Out”, National Geographic video , Forest Canopy Project, 2003
Watercolor Magazine, Creativity, Fall 2002 (Cathy Woo)
KCTS TV Seattle, NWWS demonstration, Spring 00
Watercolor magazine, “Spreading the Gift, The Works of Catherine Gill”,
American Artist Publication, Fall 1999, (Michael Kinch)
EDUCATION__________________________________________________________________________
Workshops with Ron Prokrasso (Monotypes); Mark Mahaffey (Vitreography), Chen Chi (Woodblock);Zhang Guanghui(Woodblock);Craig Cornwall(stone lithography);Paula Whelan (SolarPlateEtching);BettyJoFitzgerald(Monotypes)
Public Art and Design, 2Year Program,Bellevue Community College, 2000/01
Hunter College, City University of New York, BA, 1969
New York University, New York
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Western Australia Extension, Perth, Western Australia, 1999
Life Painting/Drawing 1983 to present
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES______________________________________________________
Gilda’s House, Red Door Project, Seattle, WA, July05,leggos,( wJoseph Flahiff)
Sound Transit, Tukwila Commuter Station, Seattle,WA, Sept 2002(Art Partners)
Silkscreen on fiberglass panels
Lilac Lodge Residence, Columbia City, WA, July 2002, (Art Partners), digital printed tiled murals
Childcare Center, Bellevue Community College, WA, May 2002, mosaics
University of Washington Medical Center, 2D Art Collection, 2000
City of Nedlands, Western Australia, permanent Art Collection, 1999
City of Edmonds, Washington, gift to Hekinan, Japan
City of Redmond, Washington, Portable Art Collection, 1994
Bellevue School District, Lake Hills Elementary School (WA),wall mural,1989
Redmond Downtown Business Assn., Redmond, WA, wall mural, 1989
RESIDENCIES________________________________________________________________________
Nanjing Arts Institute, China 1 week woodblock printmaking residency, Sept 2002
Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, 2 week residency, April 2002
Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, 2 week residency, vitreography, 2001
Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, 3 week residency, 2000
Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, 1 week international residency, 2000
Tresillian Center , Australia, 7 week Visiting Residency, AU 1998-1999
C A T H E R I N E G I L L
6218-20th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 526-5993 gillart@earthlink.net
www.catherinegill.net
