Catherine W Minnery

When a very young Catherine Wagner Minnery’s family visited a hill top park in Cincinnati, Ohio, to see the flooded Ohio River, she remembers seeing a modest house, painted a pale turquoise blue, tilted off its foundation, surrounded by muddy water. “I was very young, it was in the 1950‘s, and I was amazed by all the water and the houses submerged! But that one block of blue surrounded by the creamy brown of the muddy Ohio River, is what really stuck in my mind. I could never think about that experience without recalling the blue of that unfortunate house. Maybe that was an early inkling of my life long pursuit of color”.

At this time she and her siblings and parents lived next door to her maternal grandparents farm, just outside the Cincinnati city limits. It was an idyllic place and the colors, textures and smells associated with that place gave her an early appreciation of the natural beauty that surrounds us all. Sadly, the farm was sold after the death of her grandfather, but her family’s home was there and she remained physically connected to what was left of this special place until she was a young adult. 

Her formal art education started at the University of Cincinnati where she was a design student with the vague ide...

I graduated from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. I've attended several workshops/painting intensives with various artists: David Rohn, Richard Sheehan, Marjorie Portnow and others.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:, 2021
2016 “Oil and Water” Yates Gallery-Siena College, Latham NY
2014 “Work on Canvas, Paper and Panel” Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont NY











2013 “Pieces of the Afternoon” Mimosa Gallery, Saratoga Springs NY
2010 “A Year of Painting the Hudson” Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont NY
2006 “Interior / Exterior, Paintings, Prints & Drawings” Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont NY
2004 “Remembering Rwanda, the 10th Anniversary” Catholic Relief Services, Baltimore NY
2003 “Called to Witness: Rwanda” Visions Gallery, Albany NY
2003 “Visual Reflections-Rwanda” Living Room Gallery -St. Peter’s Lutheran, New York NY

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021 “More than a Sketchbook” The Arts Center of the Capitol Region,Troy NY
2020, 2019,2018,2017 “The Fence Show” The Arts Center of the Capitol Region, Troy NY
2022, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2018,2017 “Member shows” Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester VT
2022, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 “Landscapes for Landsake” Benefit show for Agricultural Stewardship Association,Greenwich NY
2021, 2017, 2015, “Upstate Artists” regional juried show at Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville NY
2017 “Nature Abstracted” (2 person show) Piermont Flywheel Galle...