Winter Break 2012 - February 7th - 28th 2012
FHA Gallery
25 East Blithedale Avenue
Mill Valley CA 94941
Artists Reception (Mill Valley Art Walk)
Tuesday February 7th 6.00 – 8.00pm
Recent News
Bike Art BookI am one of the artists featured in a book about bicycle art from around the world. It was published this year by a European murals group: www.carpe-diemact.gr. Several of my drawings and paintings have been selected for the book.
The book is available at Amazon.
Acrylic Innovation I am one of the artists featured in this large-format book recently written by Nancy Reyner and published in 2010. The book is full of original artwork and shows artists, diverse in styles and subjects, each using acrylic paint in unique ways to create expressive and personal art. I use acrylic paint for every painting I complete - even if I finish the work in oils – as its properties enable me to build and deface layers of paint quickly to create the impression of age and decay.
The book is available at Amazon.
Project 50 x 50
In the summer of 2010 along with a group of fellow artists I undertook to create 50 pieces of art in 50 days. Each of my small paintings measured 6” x 6”. The completed works were displayed in my studio during the Open Studios weekend of October 2010. I posted many of the pieces on my blog as they were finished.
“The Mission is the Art”
I was recently featured in a short video done by a local online news site. Mission Local focuses on the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco where I have my studio in a historic factory building at 1890 Bryant Street. The article looks at how the Mission influences my work.
Recent Shows
City Streets - Urban Views of the Bay Area - August 10th – September 4th 2011
Two of my small pier paintings have been selected for this group show at Studio Gallery in San Francisco.
Studio Gallery
1815 Polk St. San Francisco, CA 94109
Opening reception: Sunday August 14th 2011. 2.00 – 6.00pm
Art for Aids – Art Auction - September 23rd 2011. 6.00pm
One of my paintings was been selected for the annual juried Art for Aids Auction in San Francisco. Over 170 paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures will be available at the auction. My painting “Globe No 3” will be one of the 26 pieces in the live auction.
The Painting is available for viewing and online bidding at: www.artforaids.org
The event will be held at The Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center on September 23rd 2011.
SF Open Studios - October 1st & 2nd 2011, 11–6.00pm
I will be taking part in the annual Artspan Fall Open Studios in San Francisco. Along with the other artists in my building I will be opening my studio to the public. Visitors can see my artistic process from start to finish, including panels under development and finished pieces for sale.
1890 Bryant Street Studios
1890 Bryant St (@ Mariposa) Unit # 315
San Francisco, CA 94110
Additional information can be found at:
Mission Artists United
ArtSpan
Three British Painters - April 6th – 20th 2011
A group show featuring Catherine Mackey, Louise Lawton and Jo Barrett
Stricoff Fine Art
564 W 25th Street, New York, NY 10001
Tel: (212) 219-3977
Opening reception: Thursday April 7th 6-8:00 PM
For this show I have focused on old pier structures on the edges of San Francisco and New York. These buildings are rapidly being changed or demolished in a wave of urban renewal rolling over both cities. My paintings explore their utilitarian qualities, the randomly developed panels evoking fragmentation and decay in the repeated architectural module.
Wharves and Warehouses (A solo show) - September 10th-16th 2009
Stricoff Fine Art
564 W 25th Street, New York, NY 10001
Tel: (212) 219-3977
Opening Reception: September 10th 6–8:00 PM
The work in this show explores the utilitarian architectural style of old factories, warehouses and pier structures in San Francisco, New York and London – all cities in which I spend time.
Urbanambulations (A solo show) - December 2008
Hang Art
556 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: (415) 434-4264
Catherine Mackey’s paintings are firmly rooted in a curiosity and engagement with the urban environment. The artist gathers the source material for her paintings on long exploratory walks. For Urbanambulations, she focused on the dense urbanity of San Francisco’s Mission District. Mackey is inspired by glimpses of compositions that are inherent in any vibrant city - the juxtaposition of bright signs with grey concrete, lumbering trucks with flashes of bicycles. The artist uses these hints as the genesis of her work. The artist photographs and sketches these scenes extensively before rendering them on panels that she treats like puzzle pieces, matching them together and combining disparate elements to form whole paintings.