Widgery StudioPO Box 400452Cambridge, MA 02140

(508) 237-1660catwidgery@gmail.comwww.widgery.com

CATHERINE WIDGERY

EDUCATION

1975 Yale University, B.A. Cum Laude Special Distinction in Fine Arts

Walker Prize, Fine Arts Faculty 1974 Tyler School of Art in Rome

SELECTED PUBLIC 1999 – the present. Widgery has created over 50 public works in all; COMMISSIONS see a complete list at www.widgery.com

2019 The Gathering Place (in progress) Dichroic glasswork in Lodge. Tulsa, OK 2019 Student Innovation Center (in progress) Integrated artwork. Iowa State University

$400,000 2018 Lightscape (In progress) Thirty-seven screens of dichroic glass “flags” flutter in the breeze Blair LRT Station as trains enter and exit the station, catching the light and color of the surroundings.

Ottawa, Ontario Interactive lighting programs animate the environment at night. Project in $465,000 partnership with cj fleury and BBB Architects. 2018 Urban Fabric (In progress) Using a language of repeated horizontals that are woven together with

YC Condo subtle contrasting colors and depths, lines of glass wrap the building in a ‘fabric’ of Toronto, Canada syncopated patterns. The colors also provide a counterpoint to the current muted $410,000 colors of the building to suggest a lively interior life within the complexreflecting the animation of the surrounding urban environment. 2017 Traces of Time and Air (In progress) Interior and exterior screens of moving squares reflect and project

Tate Science Building color and light animating the spaces around them. The works exist beyond their University of Minnesota physical boundaries.

2017 Leading Lights (In progress) LEADING LIGHTS brings color, light and animation to the full length of K Street Gateway Project the 2100 block of K St. Commissioned by the Golden Triangle District, the Washington, DC 34 triangular dichroic columns turn in the wind, reflecting the surroundings and $480,000 projecting color throughout the area, becoming lantern beacons at night. 2017 Woven Light (in progress) WOVEN LIGHT is an outdoor room; the shadows, light and projected

Northfield Uplands Park color make you more conscious of the sun and the breeze. From the outside, Stapleton, CO the dichroic glass between the slats reflects the sky and surrounding trees. $360,000 Inside is like being in a kaleidoscope of moving colored lights as the sun shifts angle. Endlessly changing patterns of crisscrossing shadows and reflected light extend the impact of the art beyond its physical boundaries to create a shady refuge from the intensity of the prairie light. 2016 Sky Cycles Warm Springs BART Station, Fremont, CA. This work

Warm Springs BART Station transforms the interior spaces and exterior appearance of the new station Fremont, CA covering 8000 sq. ft. of glass with color and images that evoke the changing

$1,156,000 times of day and year between the sky, water and mountains of the area. 2016 Time’s Shadow Three enormous glass boxes with a total area of 11,000 square feet

Rideau Centre, on the façades of the Centre. Etched images of trees and leaves alternate with Ottawa, ON. stripes of clear glass in front of hybrid images of sky and forests throughout the $675,000 seasons also cut into alternating stripes. As the viewer moves past and the etched lines alternately reveal and obscure one of the images, there is the perception of sky and forest fading in and out of view, creating the illusion of both depth and movement. 2015 Arbor Winds Art elements on three separate sites create a gateway to the town. Etched glass

Stadium Bridge & State St. works with images of trees at two moments in time, blown by the wind. Ann Arbor, MI They are a metaphor for the energy and beauty of the town filled with mature trees $360,000 planted by the founders and protected by the residents. 2015 Forest Lights A façade treatment and five towers 30’ tall with dichroic glass

Oregon Zoo “leaves” that move in the wind refer to light coming through the bamboo Portland, OR forests of Asia for the new Asian elephant area of the zoo.

$200,000 2015 Passing Storms Two large courtyard installations Rain and Cloud that move with the wind and use

Oregon State Hospital weather as a metaphor for the complex and intangible workings of the mind. Junction City, OR Worked on the design team with mental health patients as well as architects, $320,000 landscape architects and stakeholders. (Winner CODAawards 2015 for Healthcare) 2015 Sky Veil All the mullions of the façade of the building have panels of dichroic Juvenile Courthouse glass on the inside faces so that the visitors who enter the spaces will see the

Ogden, UT reflection of the sky and mountains behind through a veil of color. Boundaries are $180,000 removed making the view limitless. The structure of the curtain wall is dematerialized leaving nothing between you and the sky. Colored light is projected onto the ground outside.

2014 Leaves of Wind Collaborative design teamwork on 22 transit shelters and integrated art. The shade Mesa Corridor screen gratings are painted with images of native plants so that the images

Rapid Transit System appear and dissolve as one moves by the structures. The seasons of the year and El Paso, TX the beauty of the natural environment transform the corridor. (Winner CODAawards $240,000 2015 for Transportation)

2014 River Dragon Metropolitan Council/Metro Transit commission for the Western Transit Station. River

Minneapolis, St. Paul Dragon combines the symbolism of the River: (both the Mekong River and the Minnesota Mississippi River) with that of the dragon as symbol in Asian culture of the life force, $187,000 signifying good fortune. The discs move in the wind to shimmer like light on the river and dragon scales reflecting color and light. Inspired by the Hmong and Vietnamese culture of this area, the dragon and river symbolism are joined as symbols of good fortune and vibrant life. 2014 Ripples A glass wall 50’ long is transformed into a moving image of rain falling on the Raleigh Durham Airport surface of water. Working with Rufus Butler Seder on a unique method of creating Raleigh Durham, NC the illusion of movement, as the viewer moves by the image, the raindrops appear $75,000 to shimmer and the rings expand. In fact there are images of three moments in time that are woven together and a veil of thinly etched lines obscures and reveals different images in sequence animated by the movement of the viewer. All is ephemeral; nothing can be grasped; no moment is fixed.

2012 Crystal Light Created for UTA’s Airport Transfer Station. The artwork engages all the Salt Lake City glass in the station with laser etched images of water in its various states.

Utah The glass elevator tower is 60’ high and treated on all sides. Stainless steel $589,000 discs in the pavement catch the light as if it were flowing water. Programmed LED lighting creates shifting patterns and color throughout the station.

2012 Halo Exterior courtyard installation dichroic glass. 8 x 6 x 6’ stainless steel and dichotic

Rigaud, Québec glass. Interactive work with moving dichotic glass panels that reflect the sky, College Bourget, children and landscape around. $85,000

2012 Mindshadows Created for the New Republic and North Toronto Collegiate Institute. Programmed

Toronto, Ontario lighting and provocative words suggest the working of the mind. Words are the form North Toronto Collegiate of thought. Students collaborated in the choice of words. 20 x 10 x 10’

2010 Cloudbreak A cloud of glass tubes bulges through a metal grid as if pushing into the room with

Denver, CO light and color. The wall is back lit by the sun and at night is luminous from the 14 x 41 x 2’ outside. Commissioned by the City of Denver for the new Denver Justice $250,000 Center. Winner of the Americans for the Arts Award as one of the outstanding public art works created in 2010. 2009 Tidal Song On a pedestrian bridge at the Trump Tower, Tidal Song creates an immersive,

New Rochelle, NY interactive environment, using interactive lights and sound, akin to a wave of energy. 120 x 14 x 10’

$200,000

2008 Shadow Play Iconic images of mesquite tress etched in glass signal the entrance to the station. Light Rail Station, Tempe, AZ Ghost shadows of leaves on the canopies overhead are revealed by sunlight.

28 x 160 x 44’ $254,000

2007 Head in the Clouds Cubes of translucent sky painting, worn for a performance and then installed in the

Global Arts Village atrium of the main campus, tumble through space as if the sky had taken on form. New Delhi, India 34 x 16 x 20’

2005 Light Storm At the Mesa Arts Center. Over 30,000 stainless steel discs are set Mesa, AZ flush into the stone paving, reflecting light and color as if they had fallen

Work covers 27,000 sq.ft. from the shade screens above and a desert wind sent them swirling. $100,000

2004 Light Lines At the Tree Museum, Light Lines responds to the wind and the light of the lake, Gravenhurst, Ontario introducing the straight line into the world of nature. Where the work ends and the 18 x 14 x 10’ reflection begins is elusive. $3,200 2003 Les Marches du Temps Echoing the narrow site, this work is a hybrid, part mountain landscape, part

Mont Tremblant, Québec building. Located next to the train station, it was inspired by the way the train moves 8 x 18 x 54’ through the mountains.

$27,000 2002 Trail of Dreams, Two works are placed at Frenchy’s Park and DeVargas Park, along the route of the

Trail of Ghosts old Camino Real. Two spirals intertwine much as the Spanish and Indian cultures Santa Fe, NM became intertwined with each other. Selected by the Americans for the Arts

10 x 50 x 50’ and 14 x 28 x 28’ as one of the outstanding public art works of 2002. $138,000

2001-02 Pass Through the Land Invesco Stadium at Mile High. Winner of an international competition, this Denver, CO environmental work brings the textures, colors and forms of the Colorado mountains 28 x 300 x 300’ to the park in the form of a modified labyrinth. At the entrance to the park the aspen- $525,000 like towers have discs that shimmer like leaves in the sunlight.

1999 River Arch This gateway work, the largest art commission in Winnipeg’s history, features Winnipeg, Manitoba an asymmetric stainless parabolic arch rising from the bank of the river,

75 x 75 x 15’ plunging down between the Main St. and Norwood Bridges, symbol of the

$365,000 dynamic energy of the town. Stainless steel, stone, aluminum, gold leaf. SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Shadows and Windy Places Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario 2005 Bit Memories Schmucker Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA and Mississauga Art Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario 2004 Nevertheless Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA 2003 White Whispers CIRCA, Montreal, Québec 2002-03 Playthings Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver, British Columbia 2002 White Whispers Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Playthings Koffler Centre for the Arts, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2001 All in a Row Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Lost Sense Emison Art Center Gallery, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Plié, Lux Lucius Fragmented Realities International Art and Architecture Festival, Venice, Italy Plié Centre Du Virail in Chartres France Created for exhibition “in search of the light

of the world”, sponsored by Glasmalerei Peters Studio of Germany. 2010 en verre, sous verre et… Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Québec

sans verre Lignes Musée de Lachine, Lachine, Québec

2008-09 Intrus/Intruders Musée du Quebec, Quebec City, Québec 2007 Art for Prabhat Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India 2006 Kiwi Sculpture Garden Project Kiwi Sculpture Garden, Perth, Ontario

2005-06 El Bosque/The Forest Museo Federico Sllva, Zacatecas, Museo Francisco, Gotilla de Belles Artes, México City, Museo de Arte Contemporareo, Oaxaca, Instituto de Cultura de México, San Antonio, TX, Instituto de Cultura de México, San Antonio, TX, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

2003 White Whispers International Sculpture Center at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

2000-02 The 7th International Shoebox University of Hawaii Art Gallery traveling exhibition. Sculpture Exhibition PRESS AND REVIEWS Among the dozens of articles that have appeared about Widgery’s work, her award winning projects have been featured on the covers of Sculpture, Landscape Architecture, Espace and World Sculpture News. What follows is a sampling of her most recent press. A

2016: “Pass Through the Land” featured in CODAmagazine’s April issue “Kinetic Art”, 25 top-curated projects in Art

and Design. 2015: “Leaves of Wind” featured in CODAmagazine’s June issue “Transformative Walls”. “CanadianInteriors.com” June 2015, Homes & Living, June/July 2015, “Dwell” April, 2015, “designboom” March 05, 2015 “Passing Storms” featured in CODAmagazine’s April issue “Motion and Mobility”, 25 top-curated projects in Art and Design. 2014: “Ripples” CODAmagazine’s September issue “Waterforms”, 25 top-curated projects in Art and Design. “River Dragon” CODAworx article: Train Stations, Artwork, and Minnesota’s Largest Public Project July 16, 2014. 2012: Cool Finds: Undersea at 23” Above New Rochelle, Diana Marszaiek, The Loop, Jan. 18, 2012

AWARDS AND HONORS CODAawards Merit Award, Best Projects 2016 (Sky Veil), Americans for the Arts PAN Awards 2015 Outstanding Public

Arts Projects of 2015 for Sky Veil, CODAawards Best Projects of 2015 for Healthcare and Transportation (Leaves of Wind and Passing Storms) CODAworx 100 Best videos 2014 (Crystal Light)First Prize (Tidal Song), TGK 2012 International Competition PAN/Americans for the Arts selection of Cloudbreak outstanding artwork at 2011 conference. Canada Council for the Arts, project grant and travel grant, 2007. Fellowship at the Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India, 2007. Industrial Perforators Association Grand Prize for the most innovative use of perforated Material 2006. Elected of the member Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 2002. “Aide aux Artistes Professionnels”, “A” Grant, Conseil des Arts et letters du Québec.

A full resume with all public works, exhibitions, press, catalogues, awards and collections can be seen at www.widgery.com