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Catherine Howe

Catherine Howe

Supreme Fiction: Monotypes & Mylar Paintings 
Solo Exhibition July 3 – 26
2015 Artist Reception Fri, July 3, 5-8pm
Cross Contemporary Art, 81 Partition St Saugerties, New York 12477

Supreme Fiction: Monotypes and Mylar Paintings by Catherine Howe opens with an Artist’s Reception July 35-8pm at Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties and runs through July 27th, 2015. Inspired by the luscious paintings of the Baroque era, Catherine Howe’s riotous compositions bring still lifes and botanicals into the 21st century. Her exuberantly expressive brushwork  and attention to surface create vibrant works out of uniquely contemporary materials such as carborundum grit and polyester. The luminous results resist being categorized as solely, drawings, paintings, or prints. David Ebony writes “Howe’s still lifes…are anything but still. The images seem to be imploding or exploding, in a constant state of flux.” Michele C. Cone says about Ms. Howe: “Howe’s evocative paintings are not about still life per se, but about the naming of things transposed into paint, and the magical interaction between medium, memory and perception.”Supreme Fiction: Monotypes & Mylar Paintings by Catherine Howe” opens July 3-26.
About Catherine Howe: Catherine Howe received an MFA from SUNY Buffalo in 1983. She has been reviewed in many publications including Art in America, Artforum, Art Critical, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. For over twenty years, Ms.Howe has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe  including shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, MoMA PS 1 in New York, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Catherine Howe is on the faculty of the New York Academy of Art in New York City.More information about the artist can be found: 
Artist’s website:  http://catherinehoweartist.com
Video interview: http://bit.ly/ccachow1

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1983 MFA, BFA, Painting, State University of New York at Buffalo

Catherine Howe selected Solo Exhibitions

2015 upcoming, March: VonLintel Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

2014 Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport CT

2014 Slein gallery with Jim Schmidt, St Louis, MO

2012 Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

2009 District & CO Santo Domingo, DR

2007 Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Phillip Slein Gallery, Saint Louis, MO,

2003 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

2002 Galleria Raygun, Valencia, Spain

2001 Littlejohn  Contemporary, New York, NY

2000 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

1999 Schmidt Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

1998 Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich

1995 Casey M. Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich

1995 Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995 Galerie Johan Jonker, Amsterdam

1993 Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Stephanie Theodore Gallery, New York, NY

1990 PS 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

1988 White Columns, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014 Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY, two person with Peggy Cyphers

2014  Philip Slein, St.Louis,MO

2014 “Ambitious, May 17 – June 21, VonLintel Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

2013 “Flight From Nature- Abstraction” The National Arts Club, NY

2012 Island Weiss Gallery,  New York, NY

2011 Driven to Abstraction, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

2011 A Desert in the Ocean, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

Duets, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT

2011 Pornucopia, Allegra la Viola, New York, NY

2010 Animal as Other, curated by April Gornik, Danese, New York, NY

2010 Private (Dis) Play, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, COCA, St. Louis, MO

2010 Nice to Meet You, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

2010 Horizon, curated by David Humphrey, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

2006Whimsical and Monstrous, two person show with Joanne Carson, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Yukiko Kawase Gallery, Paris, France

2005 Idols of Perversity, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY

2004 Drawn to the Present, curated by Jane Dickson, Pace University Gallery, New York

2003 The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2002Seven Artists, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

2001 Arsulananlar / Les Voluptes, curated by Elga Wimmer, Borusan Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, Turkey

2000 Precious: The Pathos and Pleasures of Kitsch, Center for Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia

2000 Information, Interpretation, Revelation, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

2000 Clowns, curated by Bill Congor, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL

1999 Jeannette Christensen, Catherine Howe, Robin Kahn, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Salome…, curated by Katherine Gass, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY

1999 Conversations: Catherine Howe with David Humphrey, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY

1998 The Liars: Frightful Paint, Arti Et Amicitiae, Amersterdam, The Netherlands

1997 Women’s Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting, curated by Jeff

1997 Fleming, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

1997 Fracturing the Gaze, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX

What’s next on Canvas, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY

1996

Portraits, Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY

ARCO, Ferio, International, Madrid, Spain, Elga Wimmer

1995

Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY

Terrestial Bodies, curated by Christopher Sweet, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Under Construction: Rethinking Images of Identity, curated by Sue Spaid and Michael Anderson, Armory Center for The Arts, Pasadena, CA

1994

Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

Re: Visioning the Familiar, curated by Klaus Ottmann, Wesleyan University Art Center, Middletown, CT

Pain – Ting, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

NY/NL, Museum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands

1993

The 43rd Biennial of American Painting, curated by Terrie Sultan, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Irony & Ecstasy, Salama Caro Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Image Abstraction, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY

1992

The Anti-Masculine, curated by Bill Arning, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Boy Meets Girl, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY

House of Value, Muranushi Lederman Gallery, Temporary Space, NY

1990

Conflict of Image, The SOHO Center, New York, NY

Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY

The Wayward Muse, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Romantic Distance, curated by Bill Arning, Jeffrey Neale Gallery, New York, NY

New Langston Arts, curated by Nayland Blake, San Francisco, CA

1987 White Columns, New York, NY

1986

Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

Catherine Howe Bibliography (selected)

2012

Huffington Post Arts & Culture, September 2012, “Going Forward in Reverse: The Present Tense(ion) of History Painting” (Banisadr, Howe, Dalwood, Steir, Taaffe, Quayola, Wang) – Denson, G. Roger

BOMB Magazine, September 2012, Catherine Howe by Madeline Weinrib.

Art in America,”The Lookout”, April 2012, Catherine Howe

Artcritical, April 9, 2012, Catherine howe at VonLintel  .

Zinsser, John, “Natural Viewing: it’s not all about sex an death”, Catalogue, VonLintel gallery.

2011

Whitewall Magazine, Arts, Holden Matt, Interview with Catherine Howe, July 19.

Color illustrations.

The New York Times, “Duets at Amy Simon, Calendar/Connecticut”, Metropolitan Section, color ill., p. 20, Sunday, March 20.

2010

“Pic of the week: Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY”, artcritical.com,

il giornale dell’arte.

Pozzi, Lucio, “Letter from New York”, The Emancipated Woman – Catherine Howe does painting, not more quick sociology”

2009

The East Hampton Star , Arts OPINION “Other as Animal”, , July 1.

Periscope ,Humphrey, David, “Blind Handshake”, 224 pages, ill., , September 1.

2008

Art in America, Leffingwell, Edward, review of solo exhibition “Revivify”, January.

2007

Chelsea Now, Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers, “To Ab or Ab Not”, , May 4 – 10, no. 33.

2005

The New York Sun ,Cohen, David, “Idols of Perversity”, , July 7.

The New York Times ,Johnson, Ken, “Animal Tales”, , July 15.

Drucker, Johanna, “Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity”, University of Chicago Press, ill., color, pp. 34-36, 39.

2002

The New Yorker, Group show review, Littlejohn Contemporary,

1999

Artforum ,Schwabsky, Barry, review of solo show, , p. 144.

1997

Art in America ,Schwabsky, Barry, “Picturehood is Powerful”, John Currin, Catherine Howe, Lisa Yuskavage”,

, feature article, p. 80-85.

1995

The New York Times ,Carmel, Pepe, , December 15.

Cottingham, Laura, “The Feminist Continuum”, Harry N. Abrahms, publisher.

1994

Art in America ,Saltz, Jerry, “A Year in the Life of Painting”, , October.

Pagel, David, review of Kim Light exhibition, Los Angeles Times, March 10.

1993

Flashart , Esman, Abigail, review of solo exhibition, , October, p. 90.

Time Out (London).Salamo Caro Gallery,

1992

Smith, Roberta, “The New Appropriationists…”, feature article, Sunday Arts, The New York Times, August 16.

Curatorial Projects

2014 “Pressed Flowers” group Exhibition including Polly Apfelbaum, Ross Bleckner, Mary Carlson, Simone Schubuck, , Allison Schulnik, Judith Linhares, et al., Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY

2011 A Desert in the Ocean, curated by Catherine Howe, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY.

2008 Ultra-Concentrated Joy- the ecstatic impulse in contemporary drawing, curated by Catherine Howe, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.