On Valentines
There’s something I can’t resist about a holiday that runs right up to the edge of ridiculously marketable, then teeters giddily, often unexpectedly, into our best and deepest impulse. And just as...
View ArticleJuiced Orange: The Death & Rebirth of Vinyl
In May 2001, the Arty Party Salon at 8th Avenue Sessions, Times Square, rocked live music, performance, and visual art, curated by Tom Burnett and hosted by Matthew Courtney. And I had an entire room...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Jamie Kelty
While growing up on a farm in Kansas, Jamie Kelty developed a strong connection to the earth and to the hand-made. Now that the artist is living in New York, this connection remains visible in her...
View ArticleSift, Freak, Reap: Morning After
Back in the year 2000 (remember when nearly everyone wrote “year 2000” – was it just too flabbergasting to accept 2000 standing alone?) I made three small collages that illustrate my creative process....
View ArticleEveryday Genius and the Vernacular Glance
[“Untitled,” Catherine Rutgers, 1976, pages 29-32] Collage is a very important concept in art history and a prevailing element in Rauschenberg’s work. Dadaists were pioneers in this technique, and...
View Article“Wake Up in the Morning Feeling Like P Diddy”
I love “Tik Tok” and I loved reading that Ke$ha based her style on Keith Richards. Long live rock. Long live pop (pulp) culture. Nearly everything in music is based on something else, isn’t it? Jazz,...
View ArticleCoda
The power take me deep, the motion: watch me dance / let me crawl / let me rise / let me hide. I am human. I have been earth. Feel me brown, feel me whole. / I will join the … Continue reading →
View ArticleOne Hundred, One Love
There really aren’t any words for this. Just a late-night riff, layers of subconscious play made conscious. The original image is sixty-two inches long. Which means I haven’t been able to see it yet in...
View ArticleAnatomy of An Illustration: Exquisite Corpse
Oh, those macabre surrealists! They just loved to play around with the more than slightly creepy, and yet be maddeningly onto something useful and deep. “Cadavre exquis” is the collective technique in...
View ArticleFun with Filters!
Not the kind you use in a fish tank, which are horribly smelly but keep your scaly pets afloat, or the ones you pop into the pitcher to purify your tap water (even if you live in NYC, where the …...
View ArticleJuiced Orange: The Death & Rebirth of Vinyl
In May 2001, the Arty Party Salon at 8th Avenue Sessions, Times Square, rocked live music, performance, and visual art, curated by Tom Burnett and hosted by Matthew Courtney. And I had an entire room...
View ArticleIconic Dimension
The iconic dimension is small. But it has to be powerful. Mostly I create this type of image for folder icons and their desktop aliases. So that means I’ll be looking at them in their tiny size for...
View ArticleOn Valentines
There’s something I can’t resist about a holiday that runs right up to the edge of ridiculously marketable, then teeters giddily, often unexpectedly, into our best and deepest impulse. And just as...
View ArticleSweet Fun in the Summertime!
Shall we frolic? Yes, we shall. Recently inspired by a rumor that the Hot & Sticky show, opening June 16th at Smith & Jones, would include some hot-and-steamy artwork, I decided to try my hand,...
View ArticleFruits of a Recent Proposal
Five fresh pieces, submitted for “Art in the Loft,” an annual exhibit at Millbrook Vineyards & Winery in conjunction with Arts Mid-Hudson. The past post was a touch gloomy. Yes, it’s time to...
View ArticleThe Counter-Intuitions (could be a postage stamp or as big as the sky)
I’m a devotee of abstract reality, intense color, and the unnatural nature of natural elements transformed via everyday technology. Two of my best friends are shifting skies and a fairly large-format...
View ArticleAn Extravagance of Possibility (Three of In Threes)
01 Sea of Possibility, 02 Fractured and Iced, 03 Artist Bio May Twenty-Fifteen Images © Cat Rutgers 2020
View ArticleThis Old Chestnut (Six of In Threes)
We might be magic … 01 Wondering Why, 02 Vinyl Reborn, 03 Floating World © Catherine Rutgers 2020
View ArticleWelcome Home
Tiny dancers, star-sprung dreams, freshly open vistas. The vibrating colors live everywhere. We can find them here, too, and I hope you will. Yours truly, Cat “Delicious” © Catherine Rutgers, July 20,...
View ArticleAnatomy of An Illustration: Exquisite Corpse
Oh, those macabre surrealists! They just loved to play around with the more than slightly creepy, and yet be maddeningly onto something useful and deep. “Cadavre exquis” is the collective technique in...
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