CATHERINE CONLIN
CONCEPTS
IN
ART
&
DESIGN
PAINTING : : CONCEPTUAL ART : : PHOTOGRAPHY : : MUSIC : : DESIGN: :TRAVEL
Artist, Interior Designer, Visionary
all images copyright © Catherine Conlin 2025
Artist Statement
I am inspired by intelligence. No subject is off limits to me. My mediums are clearly defined in statements below, but words hinder imagination. Museums want us to have a focus, something one can sell on a department store rack. I just returned from The Tate Modern (August 2026), and the two things I found most interesting were:
a. The Architecture between the two buildings.
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b. The Bruce Connor film taken from unclassified material from the U.S. Government testing the atomic bomb in the Pacific. (Read that sentence back and find the absurdity.)
By the way, I am one of the few remaining members of Connor's Rat Bastard Society.
I remember The Tate from when it was in its pure infancy. It was riveting and mind-bending.
That's what art should be.
Paintings, Drawings, Installations :: Slide Gallery Below
Color, texture, and scale are essential details in my work, be it painting, installations, floral art, poetry, or music. I often paint with a knife, and beneath each finished work there are often two or three others buried. The scrape-backs are like scabs revealing the
life-blood of the work.
I learned to paint, stretch, and frame paintings as a student, apprentice, gallery coordinator, and long-time companion to California Beat Painter Wally Hedrick. My medium for large-scale work is now acrylic, and for my tiny jewel series, original photo transfers on wood block, paint, and encaustic, building my own frames.
Previous 2026 Exhibitions:
June: Madrid, Spain. OCCO Gallery
August: London, England. Espacio Gallery
With gratitude to Capital Culture House
Photo by Rodney Margison, Managing Editor, Bloom Magazine