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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The series, "Bristle and Lick," was motivated by the current lack of genuine political and social engagement. It’s become a tired argument or perhaps realization that the internet has not improved communication as promised. We are now divided more than ever into tribes and tribes within tribes. Everyone has a voice––and frantic to use it––lest we become invisible, but there is little connection. On an especially grievous day, mulling over the state of social discourse, I found myself repeating passages from the opinion page of my local newspaper: “… nevertheless life goes on … what matters are tomatoes.” The author had a great crop, mine was flourishing, too, but the plump fruit did not calm my angst. The red fruit seemed to denote a new norm––ambivalence. For this series, I turned to nature as muse. The paintings are flush with formidable creatures that some may find creepy, and are at odds with their own species (self-contained plants and animals notorious for mutating in response to environmental dynamics, by changing form, reproducing asexually, or altering gender). In the paintings, they abide within fabricated worlds created by deploying paint, collage, and digital manipulation. Hundreds of individually painted flowers, creatures, and plants are digitally collaged. The resulting images are printed, mounted on aluminum, and painted into. The surfaces are lush, chaotic, unresolved.
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Painting:
Acrylic on Aluminium
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Size:
30 W x 26 H x 2 D in
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Catherine Forster
United States
Catherine Forster is a filmmaker, artist, and curator based in the Chicago area. She received an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her artwork has been shown in exhibitions at the, San Diego Art Institute, Notebaert Nature Museum Chicago, Carnegie Art Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Merwin Gallery Illinois Wesleyan University, central Michigan University, City of Louisville Colorado Sculpture Garden, South Bend Regional Art Museum, Flint Institute of Art, Orange County Contemporary Art Center, Exit Art (NY), Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania, to name a few. Films by Forster have been screened at the Sao Paul International Short Film Festival, Echotrope New Media Arts Festival (Omaha), Simultan Media Arts Festival (Romania), Echo Park Film Center (LA), Magmart Film Festival Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum (Italy), Directors Lounge (Berlin), and San Diego International Women Film Festival. Forster is also the founder and director of a non-profit nomadic new media art space, the LiveBox Gallery Forster's trajectory as an artist began with careers in microbiology and business, each experience presented a pathway to her current practice. Observation and authenticity are the bedrock of her work. As a microbiologist her preferred medium was a microscope; today it is a camera. Forster's fascination with the world beneath the microscope transformed to the extraordinary arena played out beyond the lens. She is forever fascinated by the capacity of the "third eye" to capture what is missed or denied. Today Forster is most challenged by the globalization of mass media and its impact on our relationships, with each other and with our environs.
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