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Artist Statement:
Artist Statement for Catherine
Botch
As an artist, I am pulled to
observe and translate,
document, interpret, affect
and effect through my
perception and understanding
of what takes place around me.
Art is like an intriguing
problem or puzzle calling me
to discover and explore, an
adventure to find one of many
possibilities for solution
within my own style. I find,
from one order,I make chaos
while exploring,
experimenting, altering and
manipulating a discovery,
then to rearrange into a new
order, to bring about another
facet, to render another
understanding.
I work in various mediums,
selecting what I predict will
provide the best translation
of what I want to say. I use
whatever works- old or new
materials. I like traditional
for romance in the sense of
storytelling, connections with
the past or "it was better
back when..." - foundation,
institutional - BUT then, new
materials give exploration,
excitement of posibilities,
adventure, or delight from the
unexpected.
The computer for one, I feel,
is a great tool an extention
of what my mind can dream.
Materials made from new
technology are constantly
appearing and providing new
purpose while stretching
boundaries. These new
materials of our time: I
examine their traits,
question ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2005
Baker's Dozen
New Plymouth, New Zealand,
Virtual TART Gallery, web site
http://outofsight.co.nz/Bakers6
/default.htm and also
exhibited: International
Museum of Collage, Assemblage
Construction (IMCAC);
department of the
Ontological Museum (Museo
Ontologico), Cuernavaca,
Morelos, Mexico and IMCAC web
one sent to be part of each...
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Artist Galleries:
The Blue Unicorn Studio
312 East Emmaus Avenue
Allentown, Pa 18103
Imagine Art Gallery
541 Chestnut Street
Emmaus, PA
Imagine541Art@aol.com...
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Artist Reviews:
http://www.tnonline.com/archive
s/news/2001weeklies/08.08/eastp
enn/news.html
http://www.tnonline.com/archive
s/news/2001weeklies/08.08/eastp
enn/news.html
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Collections:
2002
the International Museum of
Collage in Mexico.
2003/2004/2005
the International Museum of
Collage in Mexico.
ArtColle, museum and gallery
of collage in Sergines,
France.
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Commissions for Catherine Botch:
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Scott's Deli, Allentown, PA,USA 2 murals 3' x4' and 4' x 8'
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