Resume SYNOPSIS Catherine Gill has lived and worked in the Pacific Northwest of the United States for 25 years, and in Toronto, Canada, and New York. She paints in watercolor, oil and pastel, works in various printmaking techniques, creates artwork for public art sites, and teaches painting and printmaking out of her studio in the Georgetown area of Seattle, throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. She is involved in many community art projects for adults and youth. Working as Art Partners,with Barbara Pitts, she conducts international cultural exchanges: Kuwait (1999), Ireland and Northern Ireland (1998, 1999), the Czech Republic (2001,2004), China (2002, 2004,2005), Slovak Republic (2003).
Her monotypes have been published “Conversation –Beyond Limited” in Shenzhen China; and an article in “Art Panorama 2006” China. Her paintings have been published in CD ROM in the Showcase of American Pastel Artists, her oils in Marine Art: A Collection Of Fine Art, (98), (Rockport Publisher); w/c article in “Artist” magazine July 2004; an article on Creativity in the Fall 2002 issue of Watercolor Magic; Artists Magazine ,Nov 2006, Mixed Media “When One Is Not Enough”; and “Spreading the Gift, The Work of Catherine Gill” in the Fall 1999 issue of Watercolor Magazine, (American Artist publication). She is currently working on a book on landscape painting with writer Beth Means. Catherine participated in Branching Out, a project sponsored by National Geographic, July 2003, involving scientists and artists jointly investigating the forest canopy. Her artwork can be viewed at www.catherinegill.com.
EXHIBITIONS City Hall Gallery, City of Seattle, Print!, Seattle Print Arts 3rd Biennial Juried Exhibition , Feb-March 2008 University of Puget Sound, WA,Kittredge Gallery,Seattle Print Arts, Oct. 2007 CoCA Gallery, Seattle,WA, Seattle Print Arts, Jan 2006,mixed media monotype Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China, November 2005, monotypes Hubei Institute of Art, Wuhan, China, November 2005, monotypes Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, November 2005, monotypes Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, “An Enduring Legacy: Women Painters of Washington”,May 2005 Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ, May 04,05 Miniature Masterpieces Invitational Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, “Branching Out” Exhibit, April 2003 Contemporary Gallery Southwest, Santa Fe, New Mexico, AAWA, 2002 Nanjing Art Gallery, NIA,Nanjing, China, Monotypes, Sept. 2002, monotypes Merrill Johnson Gallery, Denver, Colorado, AAWA, 2001 Best Painting Oil Bellevue Art Museum (WA), NWWS Exhibit, 2001 Frye Art Museum, NW Watercolor Society, 2000 Millennium Images, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, 2000 Millennium Images, Ireland and America, Galway, Belfast, Omagh, Ireland1999 Millennium Images, Kuwait and America,1999, Kuwait City, Kuwait
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 2008 Print Arts Northwest, monotypes, June 2007 Art Spirit Gallery, Small Works Invitational, Dec. 2007 2005 China Shenzhen Common Language December 2005 2005 China: Nanjing, Wuhan, Shenzhen Sequences November 2005 2004 Fallbrook Fine Arts Gallery, CA, June 2000 Edmonds Art Museum, Edmonds WA 2002 Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d'Alene, ID monotypes, paintings 1999 Stafford Studios Gallery, Western Australia, Australia 2000 Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Rainier Square, Seattle, monotypes, paintings 1989 Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MT
PROFESSIONALMEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Women Artists, charter member, VP 02-03;Board 02-05 Seattle Print Arts Print Arts Northwest Northwest Watercolor Society, signature member Women Painters of Washington Pleine Aire Painters of Washington Corvidae Press
PUBLICATIONS “A Common Language” Seattle/Shenzhen, August 2007 Artists Magazine 2007, Mixed Media Paintings, “When One Is Not Enough” Art Panorama 2006, China, article on printmaking exhibit in China “Conversation, Beyond Limited” Exhibition of Prints from Seattle Print Arts 05 An Enduring Legacy, Women Painters of Washington, May 2005 (DavidMartin) “Artists” Magazine ,July 2004,”Think Like an Artist”(Cathy Woo) “Branching Out”, National Geographic video , Forest Canopy Project, 2003 Watercolor Magazine, Creativity, Fall 2002 (Cathy Woo) KCTS TV Seattle, NWWS demonstration, Spring 00 Watercolor magazine, “Spreading the Gift, The Works of Catherine Gill”, American Artist Publication, Fall 1999, (Michael Kinch)
EDUCATION Workshops with Ron Prokrasso (Monotypes); Mark Mahaffey (Vitreography), Chen Chi (Woodblock);Zhang Guanghui(Woodblock);Craig Cornwall(stone lithography);Paula Whelan (SolarPlateEtching);BettyJoFitzgerald(Monotypes) Public Art and Design, 2Year Program,Bellevue Community College, 2000/01 Hunter College, City University of New York, BA, 1969 New York University, New York University of Washington, Seattle, WA University of Western Australia Extension, Perth, Western Australia, 1999 Life Painting/Drawing 1983 to present
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES Gilda's House, Red Door Project, Seattle, WA, July05,leggos,( wJoseph Flahiff) Sound Transit, Tukwila Commuter Station, Seattle,WA, Sept 2002(Art Partners) Silkscreen on fiberglass panels Lilac Lodge Residence, Columbia City, WA, July 2002, (Art Partners), digital printed tiled murals Childcare Center, Bellevue Community College, WA, May 2002, mosaics University of Washington Medical Center, 2D Art Collection, 2000 City of Nedlands, Western Australia, permanent Art Collection, 1999 City of Edmonds, Washington, gift to Hekinan, Japan City of Redmond, Washington, Portable Art Collection, 1994 Bellevue School District, Lake Hills Elementary School (WA),wall mural,1989 Redmond Downtown Business Assn., Redmond, WA, wall mural, 1989
RESIDENCIES Nanjing Arts Institute, China 1 week woodblock printmaking residency, Sept 02 Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, 2 week residency, April 2002 Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, 2 week residency, vitreography, 01 Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, 3 week residency, 2000 Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, 1 week international residency, 00 Tresillian Center , Australia, 7 week Visiting Residency, AU 1998-1999
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