Catherine Vaganay

Born and raised in Provence, South of France. I have been living in the US for 20 years.
My inspirations came from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Motherwell, and Franz Kline to list only some of them.

Artist Statement
My paintings are a critical response to the political and cultural issues crystallized through the social media anonymous human interactions. Beyond emoticons and slashing words, and through enigmatic appearances, my work puts a grotesque, loud, distorted, and caricatural emotional reaction on faces that never “face” each other.

Through the context of emails, texts, Instagram and Facebook posts, those imaginarary faces hide behind bold, blunt, and aggressive tirades illustrating the fragmentation of human interactions. I employ percussive, and raw brushstrokes to build a snapshot of the emotional reactions to these exchanges.

2018 MassArt, Boston, MA.
2015 BA Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA.
1999 Licence of Social Psychology, Paul Valery University, France.
1997 DEUG of Psychology, Paul Valery University, France.

2018
Fourth Floor Artists, Rockland, MA.
Fourth Floor Artists, Rockland, MA.
Gallery 4, Rockland, MA.
North River Arts Society, Marshfield, MA.