“Pixie Wave Welcome” © Catherine Rutgers 2019
Tiny dancers, star-sprung rocks, the Counter-Intuitions are living everywhere. You can find them here, and I hope you do. Riding on the waves of love and happiness, Cat
“Pixie Wave Welcome” © Catherine Rutgers 2019
Tiny dancers, star-sprung rocks, the Counter-Intuitions are living everywhere. You can find them here, and I hope you do. Riding on the waves of love and happiness, Cat
I’m a devotee of abstract reality, intense color, and the unnatural nature of natural elements transformed via everyday technology. Two of my best friends are shifting skies and a fairly large-format scanner. The gardens and a wired PC mouse attached to the Mac are constant companions.
I like to take complicated things – say an array of flowers and herbs – and distill them to nothing but the colors. In a series of stripes.
I like to examine common things that have been discarded. And to make small things really big. Or vice versa. Also, I think our streets could use a lot more color. A lot more radiant color.
So these ten new pieces were recently submitted to Billboard Creative, an annual show based in Los Angeles. Not necessarily counterintuitive, but definitely demonstrably true.
Love, Cat
Text and images © Catherine Rutgers 2019
On Saturday, June 7, 2014, sometime in the vicinity of 3 o’clock in the afternoon, I finished scouring my stove. I had used a toothbrush, a knife, a sponge, paper towels, powdered cleanser, and vigorous elbow grease. It was as clean as clean could be. Astonishingly clean. Very ready for a portrait of domestic bliss.
That August, I published the soundless video Space Rangers. You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/104451876. Eight minutes, forty-three seconds of very much strangeness. It’s one of the oddest things I’ve ever seen.
Four years later, the “ripple” post got started. And now it’s done.
“If I knew the way, I would take you home.” – Ripple, Lyrics by Robert Hunter, Music by Jerry Garcia, 1970
Images by Catherine Rutgers © 2019
Five fresh pieces, submitted for “Art in the Loft,” an annual exhibit at Millbrook Vineyards & Winery in conjunction with Arts Mid-Hudson. The past post was a touch gloomy. Yes, it’s time to lighten up! Forthwith, appearing above, Fresh Start, Savory Plush, Indigo Bliss, Relativity Greens, and Copper Cantata. This art is © Catherine Rutgers 2019 and transported to you on the blustery breezes of April.
Selected stills from “Everything Dies, Some Comes Back”
Now live, at https://vimeo.com/catrutgers/some-comes-back!
Art & motion by Catherine Rutgers 2018, Sound by Tom Burnett © March 2018