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Catherine Webb

"Catherine Webb is an emerging oil painter based in New York City, working in figuration, landscape, and abstraction. Catherine paints primarily with her palette knife or her fingers, preferring a direct relationship between color mixing and the canvas surface. By building up color and textures, Catherine creates multilayered experiences of immediacy and intimacy. Her passion for art history likewise influences her works. With a background in environmental justice and seedkeeping, Webb approaches artmaking from a deep desire to improve the world around her."

Catherine Webb

Born in Orange County, CA / Works in New York

Catherine Webb (b. 2000) is an American (US) oil painter and performance artist. Born in California and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, she received a bachelor's degree in Painting and Environmental Justice from Yale University in 2023.
Webb’s paintings explore gender, Indigeneity, and ecological harmony through relationship-building with her materials, processes, and subjects. She paints portraits, landscapes, and abstractions from life, primarily using a palette knife to create direct linkage between color mixing and application of paint. Webb often makes her oil paints from raw pigment, and her palettes reflect seasonal and locational shifts in light. In performance, the artist uses painting materials and improvised movement to embody the cyclical rhythms that connect humans and nature.

Webb has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Connecticut, Portugal, Italy, and Romania. She has attended numerous art residencies across the United States and in Europe, including Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Sitka, Oregon); Buinho Creative Hub (Messejana, Portugal); Córtex Frontal (Arraiolos, Portugal); Les Ateliers de Création et d’Expression Artistique (Marnay-sur-Seine, France); and Fundația pentru Artă (Bucharest, Romania). Webb is a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center’s Harpo Foundation Fellowship (Johnson, Vermont), and an upcoming grantee and five-week Interdisciplinary Resident at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, Virginia.

Webb currently lives and works in New York City.
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