CATHERINE KERNAN

The premise that human memory and the experience of spaces are dynamic, mutable, interactive, and recur in ever-evolving cycles of repetition and variation underlies most of Catherine Kernan's work.The artist works in an abstract, improvisatory way, drawing on internalized experiences in a painterly process of controlled accident. Using large-scale woodblocks in unorthodox ways as a transfer tool, Kernan build images by laying down ink, removing ink, and many viscosity rolls layer by layer, without predicting the outcome, but always keenly in tune with the medium. Catherine Kernan has degrees from Cooper Union and the University ofWisconsin/Madison. She has been a partner in professional studios since 1982, and is a founding partner of Mixit Print Studio.The Print Club of Cleveland, the Print Club of Rochester, and the Flint Institute of Art have commissioned her editions. She authored "Singular and Serial:Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint", 2019.

For six years Catherine was Director of Maud Morgan Arts, an art center in Cambridge, MA offering classes, workshops, and exhibitions. Many private, public and corporate collections own Catherine’s work. Her residencies include: Scuola Internazionale di Grafica,Venice; Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland; MacDowell Colony. In 2018 she received a grant from the Pollack Krasner Foundation.