Catharine Clark Gallery Intersect Palm Springs 2022 | February 10 – February 13, 2022 BOOTH 307 Timothy Cummings, Julie Heffernan, Katherine Vetne, Marie Watt, and Wanxin Zhang
Julie Heffernan Self-Portrait After Galilee, 2018-20 Oil on canvas 68 x 60 inches $62,000
Julie Heffernan Self-Portrait as Redhead, 2019 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches $16,000
Julie Heffernan Study for Self-Portrait as Mad Queen, 2021 Oil on canvas 22 x 20 inches $15,000
Julie Heffernan Study for Self-Portrait as Snow Goose, 2021 Oil on canvas 32 x 28 inches $20,000
Julie Heffernan Study for Self-Portrait with Mutts, 2021 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches $15,000
Julie Heffernan Swoon, 2021 Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches $15,000
Marie Watt Skywalker Greets Sunrise, VI, 2021 Steel I-beam, spray paint, stainless base 78 x 23 x 23 inches $130,000
Timothy Cummings Olympia, 2022 Acrylic on wood panel 30 x 30 x 1 1/2 inches $9,500
Timothy Cummings The Pink Watchful Performer, 2017 Acrylic on board 8 x 10 inches $5,200
Timothy Cummings Donald Envisioned as Sissieretta Jones, 2020 Acrylic on panel 21 3/8 x 21 3/8 inches $8,000
Timothy Cummings Crowned Boy King, 2017 Acrylic on panel 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches framed $3,800 framed
Timothy Cummings Portrait in the Tall Grass, 2020 Acrylic on board with paper collage 24 x 18 inches $7,800
Timothy Cummings Tabula Rasa, 2020 Gouache on paper 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches framed $5,200 framed
Timothy Cummings You and I Are Earth, 2020 Gouache on paper 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches framed $5,200 framed
Timothy Cummings Boyfriend, 2020 Gouache on paper 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches framed $5,200 framed
Timothy Cummings Deformed Rainbow, 2011 Acrylic on panel 7 x 14 inches $4,200
Timothy Cummings African American, 2020 Gouache on paper 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches framed $5,200 framed
Timothy Cummings Queen Rex, 2019 Acrylic on wood 24 x 18 inches $7,800
Katherine Vetne My Pleasure, 2019 19 melted lead crystal candelabras and candlesticks, silver nitrate, lacquer Approximately 46 1/2 x 42 inches $8,500
Wanxin Zhang Made in China, 2014 Cast bronze with patina Edition of 5; 4/5 77 x 22 x 19 inches $100,000 (indoor finish), $125,000 (outdoor finish)
Wanxin Zhang Blue and White Figure, 2020 High-fired stoneware, slip casting, porcelain, and glaze 22 x 18 x 10 inches $9,000
Wanxin Zhang Panda Rock, 2020 High-fired stoneware with glaze 16 x 24 x 8 inches $12,000
ARTIST BIOS Timothy Cummings Albuquerque, NM | Corrales, NM Cummings was raised in New Mexico, moved to San Francisco in 1993, and returned to Albuquerque in 2015. Cummings renders narrative and portrait paintings that reflect on art history and exhibit vernacular influences. Cummings’ depicts an imaginative world of intimate and sensitively rendered figures that reflect on the unbounded space of creative self-fashioning his figures often employ style as both a mode of self-defense and fabulous self-expression. In November 2020, Catharine Clark Gallery presented Muse, Cummings’ solo exhibition of new and recent paintings in conjunction with the gallery’s 2020 BOXBLUR season of live performances, featuring a marquee concert with Rufus Wainwright and a special opening performance by Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique. In conjunction with Wainwright’s performance, Cummings created a life-size theatre set inspired by 19th century puppet theaters—a nod to Cummings’ own history as a radical puppet maker and to the imagery and allusion in both his and Wainwright’s work. Both artists explore LGBTQ+ identity, adolescence, sexuality, coming of age, psychology, and justice. Though Muse was conceived prior to Covid-19, the history of puppetry as an art form to animate and convey the needs of human society, particularly during difficult times, are as relevant a reference as ever. Cummings has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 1994.
Julie Heffernan Peoria, Illinois | Brooklyn, NY Heffernan is a painter whose artwork has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist." Writing for The New York Sun, art critic David Cohen says of Heffernan’s exhibition: "These paintings are a hybrid of genres and styles, mixing allegory, portraiture, history painting, and still life, while in title they are all presented as self-portraits." Portraiture is a dominant subject in Heffernan’s painting, even while she also reflects on environmental, (art) historical, feminist, literary, social, and political subjects. In 2017, she and was the featured artist for the MacDowell Colony. In 2013, Heffernan was awarded a Milton And Sally Avery Fellowship at MacDowell and in 2012, she was invited to be the Lee Ellen Fleming Artist-In-Residence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 2011, Heffernan was elected a National Academician to the National Academy of Design in New York and in 2014, to the Board of Governors. She is a 2017 Fellow of the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; was awarded the Meridian Scholar Artist-In-Residence Fellowship from the University of Tampa in Florida. In 2010, she was the Commencement Speaker for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 2009, she was the featured artist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and a Fulbright-Hayes grant to Berlin, Heffernan was also a nominee for the "Anonymous Was A Woman" award. Since 1999, Heffernan has had more than 50 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries across the United States and abroad. Her work is represented in museum and institutional collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the McEvoy Family Collection, San Francisco, California; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Heffernan was raised in Northern California, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking and painting from University of California at Santa Cruz, and earned a Master of Fine Arts at Yale School of Art. She is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University and currently lives in New York. Heffernan has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 2005.
Katherine Vetne Newburyport, MA | San Francisco, CA Vetne uses traditional painting and craft-based techniques to explore contemporary social concepts. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of SFAI’s Graduate Fellowship in Painting as well as the Allan B. Stone Award. In 2018, Vetne’s work was featured in Heavy Metal – Women to Watch 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Her 2019 debut solo exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery, Whatever I See I Swallow, was generously supported by an Individual Artist Grant through the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 2021, Vetne was featured in a major exhibition on contemporary craft at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas and featured in the accompanying monograph, Crafting America. Vetne lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 2019.
Marie Watt Seattle, WA | Portland, OR Watt is an American artist whose interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, and Iroquois proto feminism. Watt holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University, as well as degrees from Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2016, Watt was awarded an honorary doctorate from Willamette University. Watt serves on the board for VoCA (Voices in Contemporary Art) and on the Native Advisory Committee at the Portland Art Museum, and in 2020 became a member of the Board of Trustees at the Portland Art Museum. Watt’s work is held in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and Renwick Gallery, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum, among others. In February 2022, Watt is the subject of a monographic survey exhibition at the University of San Diego, Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt (on view February 4 – May 13, 2022), curated by Derick Cartwright and drawn from the collection of the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation. Marie Watt lives and works in Portland, OR and has exhibited with Catharine Clark Gallery since 2019. Companion Species (Calling Back, Calling Forward) is her first solo exhibition with the gallery and is on view through February 26, 2022.
Wanxin Zhang ChangChun, China | San Francisco, CA Wanxin Zhang was born in ChangChun, China, and spent his formative years in the 1970's under Mao's regime. He was part of the first generation to receive a formal art education in college after the Cultural Revolution in 1976. In 1985 he graduated from the LuXun Academy of Fine Art with a degree in sculpture. In 1992, after Zhang established his art career as a sculptor in China, he emigrated to the United States to continue his development, and to study at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA. Zhang was a recipient of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant in 2006, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2004. In 2019, Zhang was the subject of a major mid-career retrospective and accompanying monograph titled Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco. Zhang’s work has also been featured in solo museum exhibitions at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (2006), the Fresno Art Museum in California (2007), the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art in Michigan (2008), the Arizona State University Museum (2010), the Bellevue Arts Museum (2011) and the Peninsula Museum of Art (2015), among other venues. In 2021, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive acquired Zhang’s sculpture Special Ambassador (2011) for its permanent collection. Also in 2021, The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the American Museum of Ceramic Arts also acquired Zhang’s Warrior with Colored Face for their permanent collections. Other major presentations of Zhang’s work have included the 22nd UBC Sculpture Biennial in Japan (2007), the Taipei Ceramics Biennial in Taiwan (2008), the Da Tong City 2nd International Sculpture Biennial in China (2013) and the inaugural Anren Biennale in China (2017). In 2017, the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco acquired multiple “brick” works from Zhang’s Wall series for the museum’s permanent collection, as part of its commitment to expanding its collection of contemporary art. In 2020, the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, acquired Teapot Without Handle (2016) for its permanent collection – it is currently on exhibition there. Zhang lives and works in San Francisco, California and has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 2013. Zhang’s forthcoming solo exhibition opens at the gallery on March 5, 2022.