Awareness #2 - Catherine Graffam1/24/2019 Catherine Graffam is an artist, curator, and educator who is based in the Greater Boston Area. She received her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She specializes in self portraits with oil paint documenting her emotions and her experience as a queer transgender woman. Her work is almost entirely figurative with a motif of portraiture. She has exhibited her work in museums and galleries across the world and was named one of 2017's "Remarkable Women" by NH Magazine. She is currently an Exhibitions Manager at Gallery 263 in Cambridge MA and adjunct faculty at Lasell College, New Art Center, and New Hampshire Institute of Art. She has had three solo exhibitions: Identity Online (Montreal, Rats 9, 2014), Trans-Pose (Concord, McGowan Fine Art, 2016), and Cowboy Take Me Away (San Antonio, Mantle Art Space, 2019). She has exhibited her work in the 11th Annual Minumental Exhibition, Exploring Gender, Reflections: Self Portrait Show, Annual Student Exhibition, Mangitude 7, Minis on Main, 2nd Annual Self Portrait Show, Queer, 1st Annual Figure/Portrait Competition, 12th Annual Minumental Exhibition, Art PM, Who Might I Be?, Small Works Exhibition, 2nd Annual Figure/Portrait Competition, We're Here: A Queer Exhibition, Art and Bloom, Trans/Draw, You think It's ________ But It's Really _________, Gender Unbound, The Other, 3rd Annual Self Portrait Show, Plenty, Inertia, Gender Unbound Art Festival, Right Side Out, TDOV, and Teenaged. She has exhibited numerous times at Verge Gallery in Manchester NH and the NHIA in Manchester NH. She has been published in magazines like NH Magazine, Yes! Magazine, Everyday Feminism, The Jealous Curator, the Huffington Post, The Hippo, Supersonic Art, Feministing, Mineral Magazine, and Artful Undress. She is represented by McGowan Fine Art in Concord NH and 13FOREST in Arlington MA. Her website is organized with her paintings organized by theme and series on the side and three thumbnails of some of her works on the side. She features her instagram, twitter, and email and a place to sign up for her newsletters on the left bar. She also sells prints and originals on her website.
I love her work for the way she manipulates realism in such brushy ways. She is not afraid of adding streaky lines to her beautifully rendered portraits, and I respect her for that. I also love the colors she uses and the power behind her strokes. They are frenetic but purposeful, and she has a highly developed concept and content. I want to pursue portraiture the way she has with its powerful lines, strong colors, and interesting compositions.
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