Catherine Howe

Catherine Howe is a New York artist with a unique style.

The flowers she portrays have sinuous lines and buoyant shapes which appear spontaneously from the background. On closer inspection, however, the obsessive layering and refined burnishing in each of these compositions reveal a tightly controlled, carefully wrought palimpsest. Biomorphic shapes and calligraphic lines appear suspended or ascending within an amorphous, otherworldly ether. The works are nearly impossible to photograph accurately, they demand an in-person experience and require a certain length of time for each to have its full effect on the viewer.

Catherine is currently a Professor on the Graduate Painting Faculty at the New York Academy of Art, where she leads a seminar on contemporary art.

She lives and works in Manhattan and at a farmhouse in The Hudson Valley.