Email: cathy (at) cathymclaurin (dot) com
Website: http://www.cathymclaurin.com
Artist Statement
I use personal history to explore memory, questioning how a moment can be charged with significance, and how fleeting things can extend forward in time or imagination. My work takes the form of audience-participatory exchange, performance, installation, and object making. I often work in series. Animals frequently appear in my work - as hybrids, or as references to wild or farm animals. These are reoccuring characters of significance from my childhood.
|  Untitled (rustbird) - 2008 - mixed media - 11.5" x 5.5", - $125.00 Untitled (rustbird) is from a series of forty mixed media works incorporating scraps of posters found in Venice, Italy. In 2005, I spent two weeks making work in there, being inspired by the colors, the chunks of poster papers and other things I found while walking in the floating city. My work often incorporates images of animals. In this series, the animals range from wild, domesticated, or farm animals, to fantastical animals. Red earth from where I grew up in North Carolina is often used as a pigment in my work and appears here.  Untitled (rat) - 2009 - mixed media - 11.5" x 5.5", - $125.00 [Fundraiser] Untitled (rustbird) is from a series of forty mixed media works incorporating scraps of posters found in Venice, Italy. In 2005, I spent two weeks making work in there, being inspired by the colors, the chunks of poster papers and other things I found while walking in the floating city. My work often incorporates images of animals. In this series, the animals range from wild, domesticated, or farm animals, to fantastical animals. |
Artist Bio
Cathy McLaurin is a visual artist working in audience-participatory exchange, performance, installation, and object making. She has exhibited and performed her work in galleries in the US and Canada including Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, LUMP, Raleigh, NC, Mills Gallery, Boston, Le Gallery, Toronto, and Artspace, New Haven, CT. She is the 2007 recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant, and 2003 recipient of an ART Award from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation.
Cathy McLaurin is currently Special Projects and Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery Director at Essex Art Center, and Adjunct Faculty at New Hampshire Institute of Art.