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Patty Cateura’s paintings draw inspiration from the
American color field tradition of the 60s by placing abstract narratives of contemporary urban life within a larger world of nature and color. Floating and fragmented vignettes allude to city life, architecture and technology. Yet nature prevails in hills, rivers, trees and pure color fields. Using both abstraction and realism, Cateura playfully juxtaposes man-made objects with nature and the infinite expanse of monochromatic space. In Cateura’s paintings, the opposing realities of nature and contemporary urban life co-exist enigmatically within a pure color universe.

Cateura, a graduate of Oberlin College, MICA and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, lives and works in New YorkCity. She has been a painting fellow at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay and VCCA.

Recent exhibitions include, Life of the City, Museum of Modern Art, NY; Reaction, Exit Art, NY; big fish, Fish Tank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Scapes, Ernest Rubinstein Gallery, NY; Skowhegan Benefit, David Beitzel Gallery, NY; Bedbugs at Snorewalls, Four Walls Gallery, NY; The Postmasters Virus, Postmasters Gallery, NY; Artworks Artworkers, Basilico Fine Arts, NY.

 


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Rock
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 in.






Limb
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 in.





 


Sand (detail)
acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in.






Surroundings
acrylic on canvas
32 x 44 in.