artists

Catherine Woskow

Catherine Woskow's work is about exploration of the self. In both her Heads and Vertical series Woskow pushes internal boundaries to explore universal questions about the body's connections to the intellectual self. Layers of thick acrylic and fluid glazes with minimal lines of graphite speed across the top of her paintings, creating rich surfaces that oscillate between recognition and ambiguity, essentially providing a polarity play among the processes and elements of each composition.

Woskow comments on her artistic process, "I am working to develop a higher level of risk and exploration in my work, while continuing to find more depth in and through my art." Through the years, she has explored different styles ranging from minimal abstraction to her current paintings of ephemeral figures.

Woskow has exhibited in a number of galleries and is represented in collections in several countries. She has studied at Sonoma State University, Bradford Liberal Arts College in Massachusetts, and the Koningkijke Akademie of Art in the Netherlands. Woskow was the recipient of the L B Research and Education Foundation Grant in 2006.This funded a radical shift in her expression. She experimented heavily, merging her earlier figurative work with her minimal abstractions, creating a new body of work unlike anything she had done in the past. It was the fusion between these two bodies of work that have resulted in the series of vertical figures and heads which make up her current work.