“Milkweed to Mercury: The Alchemical Paintings of Catherine Howe” Exhibition

New York Academy of Art

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“Milkweed to Mercury: The Alchemical Paintings of Catherine Howe”. The exhibition, which features works created by longtime faculty member Catherine Howe.

Lush and densely layered, Howe’s paintings overflow with sensuous color and ecstatic engagement, while forms from nature emerge from her expressionistic brushwork, balancing abstraction and representation. The many publications that have reviewed her work include Art in America, ArtForum, Art Critical, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Times. In a catalogue essay in 2015, critic David Ebony writes “Catherine Howe’s recent paintings provoke engaging dichotomies. At once anarchic and elegant, meditative and frenzied, they are, above all, exuberantly alive.”