Catherine Widgery
Catherine Widgery (born 1953) is an American artist.[1] Widgery is known for both her studio-based sculpture work and her public sculpture.
Early life
Widgery was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1975.
Public art
Widgery has built more than 40 public art installations across the US and Canada.[2]
Widgery's public art projects include:
- Woven Light, Denver, Colorado,[3][4]
- Halo, Collège Bourget de Rigaud, Quebec,[5]
- Shadow Play, Mill Avenue/Third Street station, Valley Metro Light Rail, Tempe, Arizona,[6]
- Leaves of Wind, El Paso, Texas,[7][8]
- City People, Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto, Canada,[9]
- Sky Circles, Warm Springs BART station, Fremont, California,[10]
- River Arch, Norwood Bridge, Winnipeg, Manitoba,[11][12]
- Trail of Dreams, Trail of Ghosts, Santa Fe, New Mexico,[13]
- the facade for the Rideau Centre, Ottawa,[14]
- four of her public artworks are installed in Montreal, under the public art program of the City of Montreal,[15]
- Lightscape (with cj fleury), Blair O-Train station, Ottawa[16]
Collections
Her work is included in the collections of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal[17] and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.[18]
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References
- "CCCA Artist Profile for Catherine Widgery". ccca.concordia.ca.
- Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Catherine Widgery: Public Art and Visual Poetics for a Better World". huffpost.com. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- "Woven Light". denverpublicart.org.
- Froyd, Susan (23 May 2018). "Five Things for Art Lovers to Do and See This Weekend in Denver". Westword.
- Dambrot, Shana Nys; critic, ContributorArt; curator; LA, essayist based in (17 October 2016). "Catherine Widgery: Public Art and Visual Poetics for a Better World". HuffPost.
- Trimble, Lynn (28 September 2016). "From Phoenix to Mesa, Here's Your Guide to Public Art on the Light Rail". Phoenix New Times.
- "catherine widgery transforms bus stops into virtual gardens". designboom - architecture & design magazine. 5 March 2015.
- Gonzalez, Jessica (20 April 2015). "Sun Metro Brio station art recognized by national architecture magazine". KFOX.
- Torontoist (10 February 2017). "Why The Financial District is Toronto's Best Public Art Gallery". Torontoist.
- Dillon, Raquel Maria. "Warm Springs BART Station Features Grand Rotunda, Art Glass". NBC Bay Area.
- "Historic Sites of Manitoba: Norwood Bridge / Main Street Bridge (Winnipeg)". mhs.mb.ca.
- Susan A. Thompson (29 August 2016). Her Worship: Moments in History, Moments in Time. FriesenPress. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-1-4602-9477-2.
- http://www.santafenm.gov/document_center/document/3063
- Harford, Evelyn; August 10, Ottawa Citizen Updated; 2016 (11 August 2016). "Rideau Centre grand opening: Five things to get excited about - Ottawa Citizen".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- "Catherine Widgery".
- "O-Train Confederation Line". City of Ottawa. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- "Catherine Widgery, Silence and Slow Time, 1994". MAC Montréal.
- "Widgery, Catherine - Collections - MNBAQ - Collections - MNBAQ". collections.mnbaq.org.
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