Catharine Newell
Published by Ken Saunders Gallery 2041 West Carroll Avenue, Suite C-320 Chicago, IL 60612 www.kensaundersgallery.com © 2021 Ken Saunders Gallery All Rights Reserved Catalogue Design by Amy Stieve Luksa
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
Featuring work by Catharine Newell July 10 - August 31, 2021
TIME AND AGAIN I RESPOND MOST DEE OF THREE THINGS: SOLITUDE, UNCERTAI (WHICH I CHERISH) IS REFLECTIVE, OP WELL-DEFINED MENTAL PROCESSES SLO FLUID, INTUITIVE, TIMELESS AND INCLUSI BELONG TO ME. WHEN IT IS REFLECTED IN SUPPOSE, THAT I ALSO WELCOME UNCERT OF TEASING OUT SOMETHING OF SIGNIFI EDGE OF SOMETHING. THERE’S A ZING TO ODD THAT EXPANSIVE VISTAS EVOKE A SE BUT THERE IT IS... THEY INEVITABLY DO. A CONNECTION, CONSISTENTLY DIGGING DE ADMIRATION OF THE ABSOLUTE TRANSIEN TO GO. NOTHING IS EVER FINISHED.
EPLY TO EVEN THE MEREST SUGGESTION INTY AND EXPANSIVE VISTAS. SOLITUDE PENHEARTED AND INTERNAL. HABITUAL OWLY FALL AWAY TO REVEAL A MORE IVE PERSPECTIVE THAT HARDLY SEEMS TO MY WORK, I AM GRATEFUL. IT FOLLOWS, I TAINTY, WHICH OFFERS THE PROBABILITY CANCE. IT’S THRILLING TO STAND AT THE IT AND THE WORLD TILTS. I FIND IT A BIT ENSE OF DEEPLY INTIMATE CONNECTION, ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ELUSIVE EEPER, HAS LED TO A RECOGNITION AND NCE OF THINGS. THERE IS ALWAYS FURTHER C AT H A R I N E N E W E L L , 2 0 2 1
Abstraction glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 17 x 17 inches 2020 8
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Afternoon Walk glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 17 x 17 inches 2020 10
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Immerision I glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 18 x 18 inches 2019 12
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Immersion II glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 17 x 17 inches 2019 14
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Of Water VII glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 17 x 17 inches 2019 16
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Of Water XII glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 19 x 17.5 inches 2019 18
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Of Water XIII glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 19 x 17.5 inches 2019 20
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Of Water XV glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 18 x 18 inches 2019 22
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Of Water XIX glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 17 x 17 inches 2020 24
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Of Water XX glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 17 x 17 inches 2020 26
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Still Life Diptych glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 36 x 17 x 1 inches 2020 28
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Catharine Newell is an artist working in the Pacific Northwest whose work in fused glass reveals an artist finding a tranquility in the creative space where image and intention mingle with chance and fragility. The stillness of these works conveys a softness of both look and feel, as though the surfaces might be velveteen instead of frozen hard. The imagery proceeds from luminous washes to organic patterns of intense color. In pieces from the series Of Water the imagery is calming and luxurious like a thickly shaded lane. Meanwhile Afternoon Walk bursts with the yellow/white light of the shade obliterated by the sun. The works themselves are object-like, hanging off the wall slightly; the shadows creating a framing effect for the works. The scale is extremely intimate, and the works are all roughly the same size and are all square in shape giving the presentation a serial quality as each work builds on the promise of the one proceeding. Each piece does reflect the aesthetics of the entire group yet each stand on their own as a complete statement of the artist’s process and intention. Ken Saunders, July 2021
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Catharine Newell, in studio
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EDUCATION & TRAINING 2010 Residency, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington 2004 Participant, Janusz Walentynowicz class, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington 2003 Participant, Kirstie Rea class, North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland 2000 Participant, Narcissus Quagliata class, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA 1969 BA, Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara (1965-1969) SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2021 Immersed, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Some Place, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2019 Her Voice, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2018 Original Voices 2018, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2016 Surface and Atmosphere, Bullseye Projects, Portland, Oregon Accumulations, Bullseye Resource Center New York Gallery, Mamaroneck, NY 2014 Multiply, Bullseye Resource Center New York Gallery, Mamaroneck ,NY Retrospective, Gergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin Retrospective, Bullseye Projects, Portland, Oregon Unexpected Imagery, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York 2013 Living Legacies: The JSMA @ 80, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon Vanitas, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon Just Now, Solo Exhbition Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon 2012 Confabulation, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Chromatic Fusion, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe Evolve, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon 50 Years of Studio Glass, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky 2011 Presence of Absence, Solo Exhib. Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon Jellies: Living Art, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery, Chicago, Illinois SOFA Santa Fe, Bullseye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Act 2: The Next Track, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington This Fragile Skin, Schack Art Center, Everett, Washington 2010 Art Miami, Marx Saunders Gallery, Miami, Florida SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, England 2009 Interstice, Solo Exhibition Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon Colloquia, Solo Exhibition Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon Due North, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2008 As Is, Solo Exhibition Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, Washington Narratives, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2007 Being, Solo Exhibition Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon 2006 Alone Together, Solo Exhibition Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2005 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle 2003 Thin Walls, Solo Exhibition Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon Relativity, Solo Exhibition Foster/White Gallery, Seattle 32
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Reactions, Solo Exhibition Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, Washington New Works, Allied Arts Gallery, Yakima, Washington New Works, Auburn City Hall, Washington Visages, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Oregon Glass Sculpture, Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, Kirkland, Washington
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Washington Hotel Murano, Seattle, Washington Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee University of Miami Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, Florida AWARDS, HONORS & GRANTS 2004 Scholarship recipient, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington 2003 CraftHouston Award of Merit 2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award Nominee 2002 First Place, WG@BE II, Bullseye Resource Center, Portland, Oregon 2002 NICHE Award, Buyers Market of American Craft, Philadelphia 2000 Corning Award Nominee, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2014 New Glass Review 35, Corning Museum, May 2014 2012 New Glass Review 33, Corning Museum, May 2012 2010 New Glass Review 31, Corning Museum, May 2010 2009 New Glass Review 30, Corning Museum, May 2009 2008 “Ones to Watch”, Western Art & Architecture, pp 50-51, Fall 2008 2007 Oregon Public Broadcasting: “Art Beat,” televised profile, March 2007 2006 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Living, May 2006 “The Art of Craft,” The Daily Vanguard, Portland State University, November 2006 Portland Monthly, October 2006 2005 New Glass Review 26, Corning Museum, May 2005 Particle Theories: International Pâte de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations, Museum of American Glass catalog, Susanne K. Frantz
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