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Cathy McLaurin
EDUCATION
B.A. Liberal Arts, Concentration in Studio Arts Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
GRANTS + AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2007 Puffin Foundation Grant
2006 Southwest School of Art & Craft Artist Residency Award San Antonio, TX
2003 Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust Award
Caldera Artist Residency Award Caldera, OR
Gunk Foundation grant finalist
Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship Award)
2001 The Charlotte Home Grant Stephens Foundation
Forest Foundation Grant
Amesbury Cultural Council Artist Grant Massachusetts Cultural Council
Georgetown Cultural Council Artist Grant Massachusetts Cultural Council
Nominations: St. Botolph Artist Grant; Barbara Singer Sargent Award
PERFORMANCE WORK
2009 Where the arms hook onto the body University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Where the arms hook onto the body Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Where the arms hook onto the body Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2008 Where the arms hook onto the body In conjunction with Many Kinds of Nothing, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2005 Still busy….Sitting still Floating Studio, Lawrence, MA
WEB BASED PROJECTS
2009 – on going daily diminishing http://dailydiminishing.wordpress.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 what haunts… Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MAA
2007 Ice Cream, No Regrets Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Sock Monkey Kama Sutra Project Space, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Buscando la verdad/Seeking truth Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
2006 Making nice Willow Community Gallery, LynnArts, Lynn, MA
2005 Two Projects: What haunts… and Still busy…Sitting still Conant Gallery, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA.
what haunts… Space, Portland, ME
Wallflowers Bromfield Gallery, Boston,MA
New Work Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. Visiting Artist
2004 what haunts… Artspace, New Haven, CT
2003 Lore McQuade Library Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2002 what haunts… Artists Foundation, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Morphanimism Satellite Space, University of Texas at San Antonio
Alphabet Project 3 Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Locating the Garden Gelb Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2008 Human Animal Project Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
Curated by Paul Roux and Barbara O’Brien
Paper Quilts Main Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA (co-curator)
Heroes LUMP, Raleigh, NC, Curated by Elin O'hara Slavick
Hybrid Two-person show at Brodigan Gallery, Groton School, Groton, MA
2007 Swaddled babies & Dead animals caruso & mclaurin at 250 Canal St., Lawrence, MA
2005 A Different Honest Le Gallery, Toronto, Canada Curated by James Kirkpatrick
Found It Artworks New Bedford, MA
Floating Studio Washington Mills, Lawrence, MA
Word of Mouth Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
Dictionary Project Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2004 Participation Required Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
2003 Artwalk Lawrence, MA
2002 Artrages Mobius, Boston, MA
2001 Interiors Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2006- current Mobius, Boston, MA
2006- current Work represented in Flatfile Project Art Space, New Haven, CT
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURESHIP
2010 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2009 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2008 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA Presenting where the arms hook onto the body
Groton School, Groton, MA
2007 Clark University, Worcester, MA
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2006 New England Consortium of Artist-Educator Professionals Boston, MA
Merrimack College North Andover, MA
Women’s Caucus for Art National Conference Boston, MA
Lawrence Academy Groton, MA
National Art Honor Society Induction Ceremony Currier Museum of Art Manchester, NH
Meredith College Raleigh, NC
2004 Fuller Museum Brockton, MA
REVIEWS + PRESS
2008 "Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb", by Paula Owen, Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture
and Contemporary Art, Duke University Press
2007 "Co-Created Art Rituals from the Personal to the Transnational", by Catherine Judge, BLAZE: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism, Edited by karen Frostig & Kathy A. Halamka,
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK)
THE EAGLE TRIBUNE, Lawrence, MA, September 20, Rosemary Ford, Artists explore innocence, protection
in mill exhibit
THE PHOENIX, Boston, MA, September 7, Randi Hopkins, Security Blankets
NEWBURYPORT CURRENT, Newburyport, MA, March 9, J.C. Lockwood, Just below the surface
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, San Antonio, TX, January 31, Michelle Mondo,
Artist urges teens to talk about life
THE PHOENIX, Boston, MA, January 23, Randi Hopkins, Now on tape
2006 ARTSCOPE, Boston, MA, November/December, Brian Goslow, Icons + Altars
ARTIST’S RESOURCE TRUST TEN YEAR RETROSPECTIVE CATALOGUE, 100 ART Artists,
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
ART NEW ENGLAND, December/January, D’Lynne Plummer, Found It!
2005 THE FORCASTER, Portland, ME, June, Kate Bucklin, Secrets revealed; Exhibit makes the private public
THE HERALD-SUN, Durham, NC, January 30, Blue Greenberg, Raleigh has mixed-bag of art
CHATHAM NEWS/RECORD, Siler City, NC, January 27, Milburn Gibbs, Cathy McLaurin displays artwork
2004 THE EAGLE TRIBUNE, Lawrence, MA, July 6, Kristen Palma, Transforming Trash
NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE, New Haven, CT, March 18, Alejandra O’Leary,
Pop Life, Performance Art and Fart Space
NUGGET NEWSPAPER, Sisters, OR, December 9, Conrad Weiler, Artist collects ‘secrets’
2003 ALL ABOUT ARTS Cable television Channel 10 interview, September
THE DAILY NEWS, Newburyport, MA, August 8, Sonya Vartabedian, Candid Confessions:
Secrets revealed in Cathy McLaurin’s booth (Reprinted in THE EAGLE TRIBUNE, Lawrence, MA, Aug. 12)
AMESBURY NEWS, Amesbury, MA, August 8, John Lockwood, Chamber of Secrets: Artist
Cathy McLaurin’s exhibit reaches into the darkest recesses of the soul
(Reprinted in MERRIMACK RIVER CURRENT, August 8, cover story)
ART NEW ENGLAND, December/January, Paul Parcellin, The Artists Foundation/South
Boston: what haunts by Cathy McLaurin
THE BOSTON GLOBE, August 23, Cate McQuaid, Some edgy artists play with space
RUMBO, Lawrence, MA, March 15, Dalia Diaz, Celebrando el Mes de la Mujer en el Essex Art Center
THE EAGLE TRIBUNE, Lawrence, MA, November 5, Rosemary Ford, Art hits high not
CURRENT POSITIONS
2006 – present Adjunct Faculty, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
1998 – present Special Projects Director/Director, Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery,
Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
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