Original Art

Item Description

Artist:  Cathie Bleck 

Title:  Animal Eyes 

Medium:  Inks on Clay Board

Image Size:  8 x 6 inches

Frame Size:  Hand Carved Frame 

Mat Size:  Unmatted 

Date: 

Signed:  Yes

Reserve Bid is $400

Item Special Note

Cathie Bleck, an internationally respected artist is best known for her distinctive works in scratchboard and kaolin clay board. Her stylized forms are painstakingly cut through inks and handmade pigments, revealing the white of the kaolin clay beneath. It is a process similar in concept to woodblock printing.

Bleck's work was featured in two American art museum solo exhibitions in 2008, The New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut and The Butler institute of American Art in Ohio. Bleck's as artist monograph; Open Spaces was released in 2006, launching her studio artwork into the gallery and museum world. Recently, her work was selected from 600 female artists in the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art entitled Women Artists at New Britain. Eighty works were selected and featured including works by noted artists Sarah Miriam Peale, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dorothea Lange, Louise Nevelson, Lee Krasner, and Helen Frankenthaler to the contemporary Nina Bentley, Ellen Carey, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Lisa Hoke, and Lalla Essaydi. Cathie Bleck has been exhibited in over fifty exhibitions internationally and archived and displayed in the collections of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Library of Congress, Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland, Yves LaRoche Gallery in Montreal and Enid Lawson Gallery in London. Bleck has been the recipient of many awards, including a gold medal from The Society of Illustrators, NY. Her artwork has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, The New Republic and on U.S. Postage stamps, Sony Records, Warner Bros. and Motown Records as well as the U. S. State Department's Earth Day Image. Her work was recently selected for the novels of two celebrated Latin American authors, Carlos Fuentes series of novels published by Siaggitori, Italy and for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harper, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Bleck has also lectured internationally, conducted workshops, written for art magazines and been featured in many art and design magazines. Cathie Bleck lives in Cleveland, Ohio with her husband George Muschler and their three grown children, now residing in New York City and Chicago.