Catherine Passante
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Painting
Video Art
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strategy
the greatest farewell
Artist's Biography
I am a painter who has been many things. Hardware tech, web designer, video producer, waitress, mother, you get the idea. Primarily, I have managed work at all these things and maintain a consistent drive mentally that permeated throughout these endeavors – often to their betterment, sometimes to their disadvantage.
Nonetheless, for better or worse, I possess an internal vision that is compelling and pervasive. At this life stage, I am now able to externalize it in any form I choose.
I live in South Philly, though I am not a native. Originally from a small, strange town in North Jersey called Succasunna, I attended school at the Philadelphia College of Art, currently called University of the Arts back in the day of punk, big hair, and mayor Frank Rizzo.
I worked for a large architectural firm in a variety of positions for 28 years which duties included graphic, web, and multimedia design for diverse clients in the cultural, healthcare and sports industries.
Artist's Statement
Let's have a serious morning where things make sense.
Visual perception of reality appears as a tightly, strung, thin plastic veil that struggles to contain within it energy and thrust. Like a plastic shopping bag, it appears thin in places, barely containing the force within it.
My landscapes, with their extreme linear framework and heightened color, create tension like a balloon being blown up and about to pop. In my abstract works, selected parts of reality are rearranged according to their logic - Energy is allowed to leak through as objects true nature comes into being and balance is achieved.
In this way, two seemingly opposed approaches, share the same process.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2007
Win Big, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA
Two-Person
2004
Hit Me! More New Members Show, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2018
PCA Alumni, Gallery at Waurwgan, Inc., Norwich, CT
2004
Discontent, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Illegal Art Extravaganza, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA
1992
Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA
1989
Gallery Nadeau, Philadelphia, PA
1985 - 1988
Protean Artists Cooperative, Philadelphia, PA
1981
Portico Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Awards
1981
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Stuart M. Engel Award for Painting Excellence
1977 - 1981
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Dean's List
Education
2003
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Computer Graphics
2000
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Webmaster Certification
1987
Philadelphia Community College, Philadelphia, PA
Architectural Technology
1981
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
BFA, Fine Arts
Recent Artist Member Mentions on InLiquid
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Biennial of the Americas COVID-19 Memorial Virtual Exhibition
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Manifold Global: Abstraction
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