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Graphite, Clay + Charcoal on Stonehenge Paper (100% cotton, acid-free buffered with calcium carbonate to help protect artwork from contaminated environments)

55 x 170” each

2009

Price Available on Request

“The cascading scrolls are my largest works to date, created on Stonehenge paper measuring 55” x 170”. I began these 2011 with the specific goal of breaking myself out of an approach that I had taken for decades in making smaller more intimate works with minute detail. Drawing with a graphite Lyra soft pencil, powdered graphite mixed with water and applications of clay, I worked in 6 ft. increments using a pulley system we designed in my friends renovated space at St. Josephat’s.”

-Cathie Bleck

After earning her BFA, and a subsequent distinguished alumna award at the University of Illinois; and after a successful illustration career, Cathie Bleck’s publisher monograph “Open Spaces” (2006), followed by two solo museum exhibitions at The Butler and The New Britain Museums of American Art. Bleck’s work, at various unrestricted scales, in ink, clay-pigments and graphite, explore interconnected forms and transformative symbols, derived from a rich engagement with the natural world. Her work has been exhibited extensively, including recent Chicago shows “Immersion” (2019), “Avance” (2017), “frAGILITY” (2013). Her work is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.