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Born in 1953 in Nashville, TN, United States


1982, City College, San Francisco, CA

1975, B.F.A., Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

"I work with imagery which utilizes the intensity of nature as a motif for spiritual and psychological being. I combine an amalgam of impressions into one image. The organic inferences in the recent series of paintings evolve from my experiences cultivating a lush garden in upstate New York. I use the devices and strategies of representation towards abstract ends. The scale and the magnitude can shift so that some of the pictures are details and some are vistas. I recall moments of clarity and emotional response, and then the paint takes over. In the end, these pieces are a record of the journey.

The surfaces are worked with various implements and mediums to create a physical density. Saturated color and fluid light are vehicles for harmonic resonance, balance, and rhythm.

Lately, I find myself influenced by the dense glaze work of the Sabi style of Japanese ceramics. There is a simplicity and richness in their rustic imperfection."

Catherine Ramey, April 2000

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions
  • 1993: Language Enterprise, New York, NY, Catherine Ramey: Paintings and Works on Paper


  • Selected Group Exhibitions
  • 2001: PaintingsDIRECT.com, Floribundus

  • 1999: The Gallery at 1 East 53rd Street, New York, NY, Artists' Self-Portraits

  • 1998:
  • The Gallery at 1 East 53rd Street , New York, NY, Smallworks

  • College Misericordia, Dallas, PA, The Persistence of Place

  • 1997:
  • Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, Landscape, Vision and Spirit

  • The Gallery at 1 East 53rd, New York, NY, Small Works

  • The Painting Center, New York, NY, Landscape: A Survey of Contemporary Painting Using Landscape Imagery

  • 1996:
  • Public Securities Association, New York, NY, Celebrating Individual Sensibility

  • National Arts Club, New York, NY, Paintings

  • Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, Fresh A.I.R. at 20

  • 1995:
  • The Painting Center, New York, NY, Recent Prints

  • Art Initiatives, New York, NY, The Field of Vision

  • 1995:
  • The Painting Center, New York, NY, Painters Painting

  • Art Initiatives, New York, NY, Mass Exposure

  • 1992: Artists Space, New York, NY, Artists from the Studio in a School

  • 1991: Artists Space, New York, NY, Small Works

  • 1990:
  • Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, Small Works Invitational

  • Art Initiatives, New York, NY, The Field of Vision

  • Sotheby's, New York, NY, The Friends of the Public Schools Exhibition

  • 1988-1989: Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY, Confluences - Fresh A.I.R.

  • 1987: 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY, Powerful Little Stuff


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  • 1992-93, Residency, Cummington Community of the Arts, Cummington, MA

  • 1987-89, Residency, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York, NY


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