KATHERINE WESTERHOUT
Biography
A native Californian, Katherine picked up a camera at the age of six or seven. As an adult, she focused on architectural subjects during a two-year residency in Greece, where she began to consciously explore the qualities of light and color. In 1975 she took a degree in art at San Francisco State University, where the body of work she created in Greece is part of the permanent collection.
Maturing her vision in the ensuing years, Katherine returned to architectural subjects and began exhibiting in the 1990's. Venues in the U.S. include the Oakland Museum of California, the Oakland Art Gallery, Pro Arts Gallery, and Latham Square Associates, Oakland; the San Francisco Arts Commission, Limn Gallery, and Gallery 16, San Francisco; the Berkeley Art Center; the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle; the Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles; and Sepia International and A.I.R. galleries in New York City. International venues include the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana, Cuba, and Focus Gallery, London.
Katherine received a grant from the Oakland Craft and Cultural Arts Department in 1999. Among her public collectors are the Alameda County Arts Commission; Mumm, Napa Valley; San Francisco State University; the San Francisco Zen Center; Walter Hood Design; the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University; and Zukor Art Conservation.
Katherine is currently developing a body of work at Oakland's Magnolia Editions with Donald Farnsworth on their inkjet pigment printers. With this new technology, she remarks, comes a huge expansion of contrast range, color space, and print surfaces, not to mention the increase in archivability. Working with pigment on a digital print delivery system has opened the photographer's world to the wonders of printmaking--and this, at a time when my work is focusing on subject matter that was impossible to fully render on color photographic papers. And now digital technology has made possible the weaving of imagery into tapestries, an exclusive approach to the medium developed at Magnolia Editions.”
In 2004, Katherine will be an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley and will have solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery and Oakland’s Craft and Cultural Arts Gallery.
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