Widgery StudioPO Box 400452Cambridge, MA 02140

(508) 237-1660catwidgery@gmail.comwww.widgery.com

CATHERINE WIDGERY

           

EDUCATION

1975 Yale University, B.A. Cum Laude Special Distinction in Fine Arts

Walker Prize, Fine Arts Faculty 1974 Tyler School of Art in Rome

SELECTED PUBLIC 1999 – the present. Widgery has created over 50 public works in all, COMMISSIONS see a complete list at www.widgery.com

2016 Lightscape (In progress) Thirty seven screens of dichroic glass “flags” flutter in the breeze Blair LRT Station as trains enter and exit the station, catching the light and color of the surroundings.

Ottawa, Ontario Interactive lighting programs animate the environment at night. Project in $465,000 partnership with cj fleury and BBB Architects. 2015 Passing Storms Two large courtyard installations Rain and Cloudthat move with the wind and use

Oregon State Hospital weather as a metaphor for the complex and intangible workings of the mind. Junction City, OR Working on the design team with mental health patients as well as architects, $320,000 landscape architects and all the stakeholders. 2015 Time’s Shadow (in progress) Three enormous glass boxes with a total area of 11,000 square feet

Rideau Centre, on the façades of the Centre. Etched images of trees and leaves alternate with Ottawa, ON. stripes of clear glass in front of hybrid images of sky and forests throughout the $675,000 seasons also cut into alternating stripes. As the viewer moves past and the etched lines alternately reveal and obscure one of the images, there is the perception of sky and forest fading in and out of view, creating the illusion of both depth and movement. 2015 Woven Light (in progress) WOVEN LIGHT is an outdoor room; the shadows, light and projected

Northfield Uplands Park color make you more conscious of the sun and the breeze. From the outside, Stapleton, CO the dichroic glass between the slats reflects the sky and surrounding trees. $360,000 Inside is like being in a kaleidoscope of moving colored lights as the sun shifts angle. Endlessly changing patterns of crisscrossing shadows and reflected light extend the impact of the art beyond its physical boundaries to create a shady refuge from the intensity of the prairie light. 2015 Sky Veil (in progress) All the mullions of the façade of the building have panels of dichroic

Ogden Juvenile Courthouse glass on the inside faces so that the visitors who enter the spaces will see the Ogden, UT reflection of the sky and mountains behind and to the east through a veil of color. $180,000 Boundaries are removed making the view limitless. The structure of the curtain wall is dematerialized leaving nothing between you and the sky.

2015 Arbor Winds (In progress) Art elements on three separate sites create a gateway to the Stadium Bridge town. Etched glass and stone works with images of trees at two moments

and State Street in time, blown by the wind. They are a metaphor for the energy and beauty Ann Arbor, MI of the town filled with mature trees planted by the founders and protected $360,000 by the residents.

2015 Forest Lights (In progress) A façade treatment and five towers 30’ tall with dichroic glass

Oregon Zoo “leaves” that move in the wind refer to light coming through the bamboo Portland, OR forests of Asia for the new Asian elephant area of the zoo. $200,000

2014 Ripples A glass wall 50’ long is transformed into a moving image of

Raleigh Durham Airport rain falling on the surface of water. Working with Rufus Butler Seder using Raleigh Durham, NC his patented technique in a way never used before, depth and movement of $75,000 light and color, expanding rings of water delight the visitors to the airport.

2014 Sky Cycles Warm Springs BART Station, Fremont, CA. This work

Warm Springs BART Station transforms the interior spaces and exterior appearance of the new station Fremont, CA covering 8000 sq. ft of glass with color and images that evoke the changing

$1,156,000 times of day and year between the sky, water and mountains of the area.

2014 River Dragon Stainless steel. Metropolitan Council/Metro Transit commission Minneapolis, St. Paul for the Western Transit Station. Various elements ranging in size are woven

Minnesota into the station architecture. $187,000

2014 Leaves of Wind Collaborative design team work on 22 transit shelters and Mesa Corridor integrated art. The shade screen gratings are painted with images of native

Rapid Transit System plants so that the images appear and dissolve as one moves by the structures. El Paso, TX The seasons of the year and the beauty of the natural environment transform $240,000 the corridor.

2012 Crystal Light Created for UTA’s Airport Transfer Station. The artwork engages all the Salt Lake City glass in the station with laser etched images of water in its various states.

Utah The glass elevator tower is 60’ high and treated on all sides. Stainless steel $589,000 discs in the pavement catch the light as if it were flowing water. Programmed LED lighting creates shifting patterns and color throughout the station.

2012 Halo Exterior courtyard installation dichroic glass. College Bourget, Rigaud,

Rigaud, Québec Québec 8 x 6 x 6’ stainless steel and dichrotic glass. Interactive work with $85,000 moving dichrotic glass panels.

2011 Mindshadows Perforated aluminum, for the New Republic and North Toronto Collegiate Toronto, Ontario Institute. Programmed lighting and provocative words suggest the workings

28 x 10 x 10’ of the mind. Designed for The New Republic development in Toronto. $294,165 20 x 10 x 10’ North Toronto Collegiate. Words are the form of thought.

2010 Cloudbreak Glass tubes, steel, stainless glass and lights. The glass cloud forms bulges Denver, CO through a metal grid as if pushing into the room with light and color.

14 x 41 x 2’ The wall is back lit by the sun and at night is luminous from the outside. $250,000 Commissioned by the City of Denver for the new Denver Justice Center. Winner of the Americans for the Arts Award as one of the outstanding

public art works created in 2010. 2009 Tidal Song Blown and etched glass, programmable lights, speakers and sound system New Rochelle, NY with sensors. On a pedestrian bridge at the Trump Tower, Tidal Song

120 x 14 x 10’ creates an immersive, interactive environment, akin to a wave of energy. $200,000

2008 Shadow Play Etched glass and silk screened images, programmed lighting. Iconic images Light Rail Station, Tempe, AZ of mesquite tress etched in glass signal the entrance to the station. Ghost

28 x 160 x 44’ shadows of leaves on the canopies overhead are revealed by sunlight. $254,000

2007 Head in the Clouds Painted chiffon, steel. Cubes of translucent sky painting, worn for a performance

Global Arts Village and then installed in the atrium of the main campus, tumble through space New Delhi, India as if the sky had taken on form. 34 x 16 x 20’

2005 Light Storm Stainless steel discs at the Mesa Arts Center. Over 30,000 discs are set Mesa, AZ flush into the stone paving, reflecting light and color as if they had fallen

Work covers 27,000 sq.ft. from the shade screens above and a desert wind sent them swirling. $100,000

2004 Light Lines Stainless steel, nylon netting at the Tree Museum. Responding to the light Gravenhurst, Ontario and wind of the lake, Light Lines introduces the straight line into the world

18 x 14 x 10’ of nature. Where the work ends and the reflection begins is elusive. $3,200

2003 Les Marches du Temps Stone and plantings. Echoing the narrow site, this work is a hybrid, part Mont Tremblant, Québec mountain landscape, part building. Located next to the train station,

8 x 18 x 54’ it was inspired by the way the train moves the mountains. $27,000

2002 Trail of Dreams, Stone, steel, ceramic, glass, at Frenchy’s Park and DeVargas Park. Two Trail of Ghosts works are placed in parks along the route of the old Camino Real. Two

Santa Fe, NM spirals intertwine much as the Spanish and Indian cultures became 10 x 50 x 50’ and 14 x 28 x 28’ intertwined with each other. Selected by the Americans for the Arts $138,000 as one of the outstanding public art works of 2002.

2001-02 Pass Through the Land Stone and stainless steel towers at Invesco Stadium at Mile High. Winner of Denver, CO an international competition, this environmental work brings the textures,

28 x 300 x 300’ colors and forms of the Colorado mountains to the park in the form of a $525,000 modified labyrinth. At the entrance to the park the aspen-like towers have discs that shimmer like leaves in the sunlight.

1999 River Arch This gateway work, the largest art commission in Winnipeg’s history, features Winnipeg, Manitoba an asymmetric stainless parabolic arch rising from the bank of the river,

75 x 75 x 15’ plunging down between the Main St. and Norwood Bridges, symbol of the $365,000 dynamic energy of the town. Stainless steel, stone, aluminum, gold leaf. SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Shadows and Windy Places Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario 2005 Bit Memories Schmucker Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA and Mississauga Art Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario 2004 Nevertheless Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA 2003 White Whispers CIRCA, Montreal, Québec 2002-03 Playthings Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver, British Columbia 2002 White Whispers Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Playthings Koffler Centre for the Arts, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2001 All in a Row Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA Lost Sense Emison Art Center Gallery, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 en verre, sous verre et… Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Québec

sans verre Lignes Musée de Lachine, Lachine, Québec

2008-09 Intrus/Intruders Musée du Quebec, Quebec City, Québec 2007 Art for Prabhat Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India 2006 Kiwi Sculpture Garden Project Kiwi Sculpture Garden, Perth, Ontario 2005-06 El Bosque/The Forest Museo Federico Sllva, Zacatecas,

Museo Francisco, Gotilla de Belles Artes, México City Museo de Arte Contemporareo, Oaxaca Instituto de Cultura de México, San Antonio, TX St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

2003 White Whispers International Sculpture Center at Grounds for Sculpture,

Hamilton, NJ 2000-02 The 7th International Shoebox University of Hawaii Art Gallery traveling exhibition.

Sculpture Exhibition PRESS AND REVIEWS

Among the dozens of articles that have appeared about Widgery’s work, her award winning projects have been featured on the covers of Sculpture, Landscape Architecture, Espace and World Sculpture News. What follows is a sampling of her most recent press. A

2012 Cool Finds: Undersea at 23” Above New Rochelle, Diana Marszaiek, The Loop, Jan. 18, 2012 2010 Catherine Widgery Cloudbreak/Lichteinfall, Wolfgang Schmolders, Glashaus/Glass House, April 2010, pp. 16-17

Montréal ville de verre brillera de mille feux en 2010, Isabella Paré, Le Devoir, 26 juillet

Commissions, Elizabeth Lynch, Sculpture, Volume 29, #2, pp. 22

Reviews, Shadows and Windy Places, Donald Brackett, Canadian Art, Winter 2007, pp. 109-110 2008 Curtain Call for Stratford Art, Peter Godard, Toronto Star, 25 Aug. 2007 Bit Memories is an Electrifying Experience, Amy Tice, The Gettysburgian, 14 April, 2005, p. 11-12 Catherine Widgery’s Nevertheless, Rich McKown, Art New England, Dec/Jan, p.17 2005 Reviews: Catherine Widgery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Sue Harrison, Sculpture, March, p. 73-74

AWARDS AND HONORS

PAN/Americans for the Arts selection of Cloudbreak outstanding artwork at 2011 conference. Canada Council for the Arts, project grant and travel grant, 2007. Fellowship at the Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India 2007. Industrial Perforators Association Grand Prize for the most innovative use of perforated Material 2006. Elected of the member Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 2002. “Aide aux Artistes Professionnels”, “A” Grant, Conseil des Arts et letters du Québec. A full resume with all public works, exhibitions, press, catalogues, awards and collections can be seen at www.widgery.com