Basics

Channel:
Art
Genres:
Abstract, Expressionism, Figurative, Symbolism, Urban, Visionary Art
Role:
Painter
Specialties:
Painting, making art

Statements

Painting is inspiring me to paint. It is my one and only favorite mystery.
I follow where it goes and sometimes it is troublesome. Sometimes it is bliss with back pain. It is something I can do which has relevance in and of itself but it is unexplainable.
Words interrupt the long conversation.
Images are so forgiving.
If I can make a painting to be looked at and seen again and again, if I can make a painting that means something at different times and in different places,
then I have made some impact in time and space.
I use the cross (+) a lot, symbolizing the intersection of time and space, but as with all symbols, it represents many other things as well.
This is why I paint..
Cathie Joy Young

Cathie Joy Young exercises a masterful command of color with acrylic on wood panels to create modern, urban paintings with an oftentimes devotional quality to them. Although unmistakably current in appearance, the imagery sometimes evokes a feeling of having come from very long ago and far away.

Figures, boats, structures, and animals recur in the paintings which at first appear whimsical, but look deeper and the viewer may discover the tension, and even pain within these spectral images.

The multiplicity of meanings implied in these works is reflected in the technique of scraping through the paint to reveal the layers below, adding to the surface texture and at times revealing the hidden heart of the imagery. These sensitive, complex works do not scream with narrative and emotion, rather they whisper up close, inviting the viewer to interpret a visual understanding on his or her own terms.

~ William Vesneski

Creative Tools Used

acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, wood panels

Exhibitions

April 2nd 08 - May 4th 08
Vino Paradiso, 417 NW 10th PDX. OR

October 07
Dezart One Gallery Palm Springs

Aug 2nd - Aug 31st, Filter Gallery, 733 NW Everett, Portland,OR.
Opening reception, thursday Aug 2nd 5pm-8:30pm

Aug 4th - aug 31st, Victrola Art, 411 15th Ave. E, Seattle, WA.
Opening reception, saturday August 4th 6pm - 8pm
15% of proceed from both shows to benefit the Lower 9th Ward Clinic in New Orleans

Dezart One Gallery, Palm Springs - Group Show
www.dezartonegallery.com
Opening October 13th

Dezart one gallery small works show Nov. 11th through Dec. 11th

Specialties

Painting, making art

Inspirations

Odillon Redon, Marc Chagall, Cranach, Edvard Munch,Hieronymous Bosch, the PreRaphealite brotherhood, Medeival painters in general, Hermann Hesse, Doris Lessing, Tove Jansson, Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley,
John Galsworthy, JRR Tolkien, and many more..