"Blue Moon" artist Catherine Haley Epstein
About the artist: Catherine Haley Epstein is a full time artist, curator and mother of three children who lives in Southwest Washington. She has been a student of the arts for over 15 years, most recently participating in workshops in Montespertoli, Italy, and in San Francisco and Santa Ana, California with South African mentors Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky. Catherine was in an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands from 2005-2008, and a resident at Vermont Studio Center in 2010. Catherine works with the Right Brain Initiative in Portland, and has done work with the San Francisco and Sacramento public schools initiatives to incorporate art in the classrooms. She has been an advocate for arts in schools for over ten years. She continues to collaborate and curate with local and international artists in traditional and non-traditional venues. Her projects may be found at www.mindmarrow.com. If it were not for this project, I would not have collected plastics for over two weeks, and realized just how much we are surrounded by the wasteful and ever/always plastic. I have always recycled, but somehow collecting the plastic in my studio versus the recycle bin made the connection with plastic far more intimate. I intend on doing this exercise with my children and their classrooms as the opportunities arise. And as always, will look for all ways to avoid the consumption of these plastics. Many thanks to your organization for facilitating this awareness - it's vital.
$325.00
About this piece: This piece is called, “Blue Moon”, inspired by the saying “once in a blue moon” – which is something I never quite understood since I’d never seen a blue moon – this was a project that was not of my usual studio practice (A once in a blue moon). I generally embrace one off projects, as they tend to enrich my practice and my way of thinking about art. Similar to when you take a different route home than the usual, there’s always something new to see and learn. As mentioned before, this blue moon opportunity allowed me to truly commit to saving and using plastics – in theory sounds good, in practice is difficult. It was an enlightening experience, like what I think a blue moon should do. Though I’ve never seen a blue moon, it’s elusive. Just like the plastics – we don’t see it when it’s packed away in the recycle bin under the sink, in the garage or in a landfill.
- Size:
- 12″ x 12″
- Materials:
- house paint, water based oil, and plastic bags on canvas
