Catherine Callahan LeBleu
Catherine Callahan studied at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Cornell University. She has done artist residencies at Mudhouse in Agios Ioannis, Crete; Hewn Oaks in Lovell Maine and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. Her work has been shown in galleries and non-profit venues and she is the founder of the bi-annual Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. She works in Portland, Maine. The process of painting, for me, is joyful as well as intuitive and unwieldy. Many, many layers of “resolved’ but uninteresting paintings lie beneath the finished piece. The painting is successful when it opposes refinement and tastefulness in the expression of something more meaningful. It is the human touch that interests me, the wobble and the imperfection.
