CATHERINE WOSKOW

(American, born 1958)

RED TRIPTYCH

Acrylic on Muslin-Board Mounted on Foamcore

30¼ x 31¾ Inches

Signed Lower Right, 'Woskow'

Titled and Dated on Label, Verso, 'Red Triptych 1997'

 

Born in Ukiah, California, Catherine Woskow has built a career characterised by rigorous education and significant awards that directly shaped her artistic development. Woskow commenced her studies at Bradford Liberal Arts College in Massachusetts where, in 1977, she received a Merit Scholarship. She was subsequently awarded the George Haseltine Art Prize, becoming the first undergraduate in the school’s history to earn this honor. Woskow continued her studies at Sonoma State University. where, in 1980, she was awarded the Rotary International Foundation Grant. This allowed her to move to the Netherlands and continue her studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam. This important period in her development allowed her an immersive experience of the European tradition that not only introduced her to new visual vocabularies but also expanded her cultural reach.

 

Woskow's practice evolved from early figurative explorations—“Nudes” and “Persons” rendered in oil wash and pencil—toward a fusion of abstraction and figuration, culminating in the “Abstract Minimalism” works of the 1990s and the “Vertical Series” of the early 2000s. In 2006, Woskow was again recognized with a major award, the LB Research and Education Foundation Grant of $25,000. This support granted her the freedom to devote a full year to artistic experimentation, a period that directly influenced her mature “Head Series.” These paintings, constructed from layers of acrylic, graphite, and erasure on wood panels, became central to her inquiry into memory, identity, and psychic flux.

 

Over the course of a distinguished career, Catherine Woskow has exhibited widely and with success. She has been the recipient of prestigious prizes, medals and juried awards and the subject of numerous solo shows, including with Davis & Cline Gallery, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Vorres Gallery, and Tercera Gallery. She has also been featured at museum shows including at the Grace Carpenter Hudson Museum in 2006 and 2013.

 

We are pleased to offer this substantial and vibrant abstract dating to the artist's middle period.

 

 

B I O G R A P H Y

 

1958 Born Ukiah, California

 

1981 Koningkijke Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, the Netherlands

 

1979 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California

 

1977 Bradford Liberal Arts College, Bradford, Massachusetts

 

 

A W A R D S

 

2006 L B Research and Education Foundation Grant. 25,000 dollars to pursue a one year course of artistic exploration.

 

1980 Rotary International Foundation Grant. 10,000 dollars to support art and language studies in the Netherlands.

 

1977 Bradford Liberal Arts College, Massachusetts. Merit Scholarship.

 

1977 George Haseltine Art Prize, Bradford Liberal Arts College, Massachusetts. Graduated second in class and was the first undergraduate to be awarded this honor.

 

 

M U S E U M E X H I B IT I O N S

 

2013 Grace Carpenter Hudson Museum, Ukiah, California.

“Points of Encounter”, Head Series, acrylic and mixed media on wood panel

 

2006 Grace Carpenter Hudson Museum, Ukiah, California.

”Abstracted Elements”, Abstract Minimalism, mixed media on wood panel

 

 

S E L E C T E D S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S

 

2016 Vorres Gallery, San Francisco, California.

Figuratively Speaking, mixed media on wood panel

 

2013 Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon.

"Red", Abstracts, mixed media on wood panel

 

2010 Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon.

New Work 2010, acrylic and mixed media on wood panel

 

2009 Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon.

Vertical Series, acrylic and mixed media on wood panel

 

2006 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California.

Abstract Minimalism and Persons Series, acrylic mixed media

 

2005 Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon.

Persons Series, acrylic mixed media

 

2004 Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon.

Abstract Minimalism, acrylic mixed media on wood panel

 

2002 Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon.

Abstract Minimalism, mixed media on wood panel

 

1999 Tercera Gallery,Palo Alto, California.

Abstract Minimalism, acrylic mixed media on wood panel

 

1998 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, California.

Nudes and Persons Series, oil wash and pencil

 

1997 Kimzey Miller Gallery, Seattle, Washington.

Nudes and Persons Series, oil wash and pencil

 

1996 Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, California.

Nudes and Persons Series, oil wash and pencil

 

1995 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

Abstract Minimalism, acrylic mixed media on paper

 

 

S E L E C T E D G R O U P S H O W S

 

2013 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California.

Head Series, acrylic mixed media on wood panel

 

2010 Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, California

Vertical Series, acrylic mixed media on wood panel

 

2002 Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, California.

"A Horse is a Horse", metal sculpture

 

2000 Qwendajay Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

Nudes and Persons Series, oil wash and pencil

 

1997 Kimzey Miller Gallery, Seattle, Washington.

Nudes and Persons Series, oil wash and pencil

 

1993 Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco.

Abstract Minimalism, acrylic mixed media on paper

 

1992 Gallery Marckant, Langelo, the Netherlands.

Abstract Minimalism, acrylic mixed media on paper