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CATHERINE MAIZE: RECENT PAINTINGS
AT PAUL THIEBAUD GALLERY, NEW YORK
New York, New York: Paul Thiebaud Gallery is pleased to present a new body of work by Catherine Maize. Catherine Maize: Recent Paintings will be on view from January 13 through February 28, 2009. The show features oil on masonite paintings depicting quiet, contemplative still life arrangements, along with subtle interior scenes and plein air landscapes. Employing a muted color pallate and a keen sense of space and light, Maize renders intimate works that are carefully poised between realism and abstraction. This show marks the occasion of the first presentation of her work in a one-person show with the Paul Thiebaud Gallery.
Maize’s still life paintings are composed with regard for the specific character of the individual objects depicted therein – a few springs of flowers, a trio of mismatched vases, a set of earthenware dishes – all carefully composed to explore both their relationships to one another and with the more formal concerns of form, space and light, lending her work a visual connection to other still life painters like Giorgio Morandi. Paying particular attention to the articulation of the space around these objects as well, Maize creates interesting and dynamic relationships between those objects and their surroundings.
Both Maize’s light-dappled interior and plein air scenes of her Michigan surroundings are skillfully rendered depictions of the type of quiet, calm moments that punctuate the din of modern existence. The works defy quick visual readings of their surface, often slipping back and forth between the concrete physicality of the objects depicted and their abstract, painterly qualities. The muted colors, reductivist forms and formal, painterly style of the works imbue them with a thoughtful, melancholy air, inviting quiet and engaged contmeplation from the viewer.
The artist received her MFA from Indiana University in 1974 and has lived and worked in the Great Lakes area since the 1980s.
