Portland, OR – Bullseye is pleased to present Catharine Newell’s figurative kilnformed studio glass during her solo exhibition, “Alone Together,” at the Bullseye Gallery October 3 - November 18, 2006.
“Each of us has very personal perceptions about how the world works based on our personal history, which is composed of memory,” says Newell. “It is that persistence of memory, constituting the singularity of the individual, that I am driven to respectfully present in my work.” Newell uses frit and layers of glass in the “painting with light” tradition, creating her signature portraits: sliced panels revealing glimpses of faces and movement. New works in her Alone Together series are installations of figurative sketches on layered, crumpled sheets of glass “paper.” Scattered throughout the space or stacked in sheaves, these are collections of personalities-– captured but fleeting, momentary yet revealing.
Newell recently returned from lecturing in China and Taiwan in support of her 2006 exhibition with Steve Klein in Hong Kong. In 2005 Newell’s work was chosen for Corning Museum of Glass’s annual New Glass Review. In 2003 she received the Craft Houston Award of Merit.
Download: Catharine Newell September 7, 2006