Catherine Rutgers, Image 819, 3" x 8"
Catherine Rutgers creates art inspired by natural phenomena alive in the city. She studied with Alice Baber, Jeffrey Hoffeld, Irving Sandler, and Tal Streeter at SUNY Purchase, and participated in and curated her first group show at the Vassar College Center Gallery in 1979.
Two of her paintings were included in the 12×12x12×2000 Small Painting and Sculpture Competition, Houston, curated by Marysol Nieves. Group shows include ABC No Rio, Barrett Art Center, Fashion Moda, the 1986 International Art Expo, and the Eli Whitney Museum in New Haven. Solo shows include 7th & 2nd Gallery, 2/20 Gallery, Artist’s Loft @ BEI, and the Cedar Tavern in New York, as well as the Bardavon Gallery and Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie. Her artwork appeared in the first annual SFOS in 2007.
Ms. Rutgers has worked with collage, construction, and mixed media on canvas. Since 2001, her focus has been on creating digital images originating in photographs of conceptual sculpture and high-resolution scans of three-dimensional artwork and objects.
“Image capture is like a funnel,” Ms. Rutgers states, “because anything — silkscreen, pastels, photographs, or rusted metal, flowers, peacock feathers — can be scanned. It’s also like a microscope. A tiny oak leaf reveals veins and cells at 1200 pixels per inch, segments become swirling patterns or a rolling meadow with trees in the distance.”
“Here in the peri-urban zone of Victorian Flatbush, I stare at the sky a lot, watch the sun rise and the sun set, observe colors change and objects on the ground become more definitive or less distinct as the light shifts from hour to hour. Working with the new images feels a lot like that, but even more intense.”
For a digital preview of her newest print series, see “Fresh Prints” at CatRutgers.com
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