Catherine Renzi
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Biography
My paintings and drawings are a culmination of lifelong interests in art, architecture, and nature. I participate in art exhibitions in the US and Italy since 2018, and have won several prestigious awards.
I think of my painting as "Creative Non-fiction." My artwork describes things I know well-- moments shared in nature, home and garden. My art studio overlooks Harris Creek in Talbot County, MD. This corner of the Eastern Shore is evocative in every season of the year with infinite sunsets, birds, and natural beauty.
My style leans towards expressionism. Color choices describe my mood, vision, and point of view. I am inspired by Fauvist painting for its strong use of opaque color, as well as historical uses of painterly color transparencies. My painting represents my interactions with the world more than it literally depicts objects or places. I often incorporate more than one vantage point in a painting, as if I might be present in a dream, moving above, around, and throughout the space depicted. It is this space between what my eye sees, my mind knows, and my heart remembers that is expressed in my paintings. The subjects in my work are really tools with which I compose and create paintings rich with bias, invention and imagination. My finished works intentionally include insights and and marks telling about my process of making art. Whether painting in the studio or outside, I enjoy the process of painting-actually putting paint on the canvas using brushes, palette knives, and even my fingers.
With every gaze or glance , the moment, mood, and changing natural light reveal something new to me, as if perhaps seen for the first time, even in very familiar surroundings. My paintings are expressions and reactions both to singular travel experiences and quotidian moments. I never try to replicate what I see, but instead I collaborate with nature's infinite creativity. Given almost everyone has a Smartphone camera, my paintings are free from constraints of illustration, replication or photo realism. When I paint outdoors (plein air) my work is especially full of emotion, and sensory richness of sights, sounds, and the aromas of Nature.
"Out of this World," is my newest series of oil paintings inspired by the 2024 global celebration of solar science. The theme is timeless; the ancient Greeks interpreted the planets and stars as musical notes that might compose a symphony. Contemporary society is studying climate change, space travel, and sustainability.
Many artists understandably focus on painting landscapes and seascapes because of nature's infinite beauty. The skyscape is also part of every landscape, even though if cannot be directly observed in detail with the naked eye. NASA's Hubble and Webb telescope imagery now give me a better idea than ever before about what it might look like to paint "plein air" in outer space. I doubt I will ever be an astronaut, yet, the stars, sky, and planets are important parts of how I perceive nature. Planet Earth, and each of us, is just a tiny part of the universe.
Painting celestial themes offers a wonderful opportunity to include elements of imagination, emotion, and colorful creativity in every composition. Are the images abstract or representational? Are the paintings showing night or daylight? Do the depths of the universe look different as the Earth turns? My artwork series intentionally raises so many queries about time, space, defining reality, and imagining infinity.
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