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Female
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United States
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Photographer
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Painter
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A STATEMENT ABOUT CATE LOUGHRAN’S ART WORK
"If spending time with Loughran’s manipulated and re-imagined realities are not alone enough to heal our spirits, they certainly point us in the right direction to go and find the sights that will make us whole again. Putting the viewer in touch with the finest moments this life has to offer, and thereby showing one how to look for them, is her great gift.
Cate Loughran creates images our souls long for. They are a delicious, visionary teasing of our physical senses. Vibrant, richly colored flowers floating among stars in the black of space. A country road rolling into the distance, into cornfields, forests and a blue sky filled with clouds. Children and animals distilled into the sweet purity of their essences. Cate Loughran selects figures, objects and scenes that she has photographed or painted and reassembles them into new and sometimes surprising compositions. The melding of these individual elements is technically seamless and usually quite convincing, even though they border on or plunge headlong into the surreal.
They give us a glimpse into the majestic beauty and exquisite delicacy of life on earth that hint at something more, something deeper and barely tangible just beyond our grasp. They are sensual and very palpable reminders in this world of the ecstasies lying just beyond the veil of our everyday awareness.
Yet Loughran’s gift is not one gained from some pie-in-the-sky naïve fantasy, but rather from many years of honing her artistic skills combined with a very personal and life-long spiritual pursuit of the truly divine and ineffable."
Michael Bonesteel
Professor of art history at the Art Institute of Chicago and author of Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings (Rizzoli). - Resume
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EDUCATION
B.S., M.A., M.F.A., DEPT. OF ART University of Wisconsin, Madison
with honors and scholarships
M.S., Dept. of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professional artist, widely collected, including Art Institute of Chicago.
National awards and over 200 shows. 1975-present
EXHIBITIONS AND COMPETITIONS (partial list)
John Hancock Center, Chicago, IL, A Celebration of Family
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Images of Women****
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, One Person Show
Rhode Island School of Design, One Person Show
Bernal Gallery, Chicago, One Person Show, Madison Art Center, One Person Show
Bergstum Maher Art Center, Neenah, WI, One Person Show, Burpee Art Center, Rockford IL****
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, WI, Two Person Show
Jaques Baruque Gallery, Chicago, IL, Van Stratton Gallery, Chicago, IL
Santa Fe Gallery of Photography, Group Show, University of Iowa, Ames, Refocus****
University of Wisconsin, Madison, One Person Show
John Michael Kohler, The Human Image in American Art,
Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI, One Person Show
Infinite Eye Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, One Person Show, Focus Gallery, SF, CA, First Light
Milwaukee Art Center, Group Show, Dallas Art Center, Woman
Eighteenth Annual Photo Metro Competition, SF, CA, 2001****
Northern California Center for the Arts, One Person Show
Anchorage Art Center, Tahoe Art Center, One Person Show, Tahoe Art Center****
24th Annual Art on Paper, Annapolis, MD, The Stage Gallery, Massapequa, NY
De Ricci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, WI, One Person Show
Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI, One Person Show ****awards
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (partial list)
Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Maine
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
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