Catherine Eaton Skinner is a multidisciplinary artist embracing encaustic painting, oil painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and found objects. Her artwork gives expression to her journeys through many cultures and mankind’s quest to find ways to connect to one another in a chaotic world. Skinner’s work is centered on the balance of opposites, as well as methods of numerical systems and patterning used to construct an order to our world. Thus, much of her art encompasses intriguing repetition and multiplicity. She reflects, "We live in a world where it may be difficult to feel a part of the whole, but we continue trying to find ways to connect to place and to each other."
Her creative sensibilities and stimuli are owed in part to growing up in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by the fresh and salt waters, majestic mountains and old growth forests. She received her BA in Biology from Stanford University while simultaneously studying painting with Bay Area Figurative painters Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell. She splits her time between her studios in Santa Fe and Seattle.
About the Artist: Exhibitions include Branigan Cultural Center / Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM; Summerlin Library and Performing Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV; SITE Santa Fe and SITE Santa Fe Studio Tour; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Cultivate Gallery, UK; Marin MOCA; High Desert Museum; Yellowstone Art Museum; and The Museum of Encaustic Art. Recent awards: Art in Embassies Program / Papua New Guinea 2020-2023 and Acclaimed Artists Series 2020-2022, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. Noted clothing brand Eileen Fisher presently has nationwide retail store displays incorporating Skinner’s monograph 108.
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