2015 Goetemann Artist Residency

Distinguished Artist / Teacher : Catherine Kehoe

Catherine Kehoe was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
She received her BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1989 and her MFA in painting from the School of Visual Arts, Boston University, in 1992.

Kehoe has received numerous awards including Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Painting; Ballinglen Foundation Fellowship, Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust Grant; Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist Grant; Blanche E. Colman Award; St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant, and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts Award.

Kehoe teaches painting and drawing at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has also taught painting workshops at Art New England (a summer workshop program of Massachusetts College of Art and Design at Bennington College), The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Washington Studio School, Boulder Art Workshops, Cullowhee Mountain Arts, and at JSS in Italy, Civita Castellana. She has also taught a drawing workshop as part of the Training the Eye course at Harvard Medical School.

Yuko Oda

Yuka Oda’s inspiration stems from observations of natural life forms and processes. Organisms like flowers and birds have forms and functions familiar yet foreign to us. At a glance, they may seem simple and go unnoticed, but a little curiosity and observation reveals a universe of complex, intelligent systems. The wonder and reverence she feels in this study is what drives her work, and the results take various directions, from paintings to digital sculpture and animations.

“In my practice, I bring forth the life force of a living form by abstracting and transforming its elements. A delicate flower may explode like a bomb, or become a planet in a galaxy. A massive golden butterfly flock departs from a dark landscape, and colorful hummingbirds escape from an apocalyptic explosion. At times ephemeral and celestial, at others haunting, I explore energetic contrasts and mystical symbolisms in my work.”

Yuko Oda’s artworks have been exhibited at the Dumbo Arts Festival (NY), Chelsea Art Museum (NY), Calvin-Morris Gallery (NY), Lumenhouse Art Space (NY), Beijing Today Art Museum (China), Gallery Aferro (NJ), 3RD WARD (NY), the Artist Network Gallery (NY), Maki Fine Arts (Japan), among others, and her work has also been included in numerous international art fairs. Oda is currently represented by OZASAHAYASHI, a new contemporary art gallery in Kyoto Japan. Oda received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and BA in Studio Art/Philosophy from Duke University. Oda was an art resident at Chashama North in 2010, the Vermont Studio Center in 2008, and the School of Visual Arts in 1999. She has given artist talks at numerous universities and organizations, presented as a plenary speaker and panelist on topics of art and technology, and served as Art Gallery Chair at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. She currently teaches in the Fine Arts Department at the New York Institute of Technology.

Laurelin Kruse

Laurelin Kruse is an interdisciplinary artist who will bring her traveling, community-based project, the Mobile Museum of American Artifacts, to Gloucester and the Rocky Neck Art Colony.KRuse “I see my work as an “archeology of the present”—I look at the everyday, the local—the lives we live and the places we inhabit. I take a descriptive, documentary approach and apply it to subjective human experience, from the mundane to the transformative, in order to look at the emotions that drive us, and the institutions and modes of belief we operate within. I’m fascinated by how we reshape our experiences into memories, and through my work I aim to capture this process, to see the present tense on its way to becoming a story, a thing regarded, the first draft of memory.”

Laurelin launched the Mobile Museum of American Artifacts in collaboration with Artspace in New Haven, CT in July 2014. She has since taken it to multiple communities on the East Coast. After her Goetemann Residency, she’ll be traveling West with the museum to do community residencies in Colorado and Utah. Laurelin received her BA in American Studies from Yale University in 2012.

Samuel C. Guy

Samuel Guy’s work deals with the coming of age narrative in America and the role of masculinity in that process. “Drawing from personal experiences and research of gender and sociology I have started to take a serious look at the “Peter Pan Years” of young-adult men.”

“My work often references Renaissance and Baroque painting giving these figures a sacred yet often satirical quality. Additionally these references enlarge the narrative, providing an existential quality through poses taken from depositions, pietas, and other Christ or martyrdom paintings, while simultaneously criticizing the ritualistic construction of masculinity. Conversely the paintings referencing the harem paintings of Ingres and Gerome highlight the conflict of homoeroticism in a homophobic culture. The settings, often party scenes, critique the archaic traditions and rituals of the epoch, which so forcefully shape these individuals. Additional reference and metaphor are provided through, pattern and object. The use of many layers of subtlety allows me to create a piece of work that is constantly growing with the viewer.”

Jeffrey Marshall, Gloucester Invitational

These drawings and paintings depict found lobster traps, mauled by collisions along the boundaries of water and land.

I am attracted to these mangled, manmade structures because they are echoes of the frenetic Marshalenergy and power of the ocean waves. In Gloucester, fishing and lobstering are elements, like the sea and air. Over time these components combine into molecules specific to this place. These colorful, twisted wrecks are portraits, and each one reflects the insistent beauty of this city.

My engagement with Gloucester started in 1997, after moving to Massachusetts from New Orleans, where I had spent 7 years in the public schools as part of Teach For America. After years of swamps and rivers as landscapes, I became fascinated with various visual elements along coastline of Magnolia, and started working on site. I hope to create images that echo the joy of walking along the rocks and finding a tide pool.

The KNOTS series relates to another group of images, The New Orleans Drawing Project. Since 2005, when the levees failed in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, I have traveled there to document the city’s recovery through on-site drawings. This collision between natural forces and man-made structures as both metaphor and warning is something that has changed my creative focus in Gloucester, and links the two places in my mind and my artwork. The Gloucester landscape has stories to tell: past, present, and future.

Jeffrey is currently an associate professor of art at Mount Ida College.