About Katharine
Education
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
City & Guilds of London Art School
About
Katharine Boden is an artist living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. Trained in a variety of mediums including printmaking, photography and painting. She has received awards from the Cambridge Art Association and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and her work is featured in numerous private collections in the United States and abroad.
Notable Awards
Director’s Prize for Outstanding Painting, Cambridge Art Association
Juror’s Choice, Cambridge Art Association
Dana Pond Finalist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Statement of Work
Benefiting from the iPhone Pro 12 during the Covid lock-down was the way of investigating my immediate world, placing meaningful objects in magical ‘sets,’ playing with light, color and composition creating a new visual language.
Since I created this body of abstract photos, I look at them objectively and I’m stunned how they relate to everyday life – in exhibitions, newspapers, advertisements, movies, all visual encounters. We live in a visually fractured world of images constantly moving. We are effected by this pace subconsciously absorbing the visual culture imposed on us.
It is an exciting challenge for me as an artist reflecting my world as I look around and attempt to control these many conflicting stimulations. There are playful times, too, when I create a visual joke, perhaps too subjective for the viewer, but the viewer is free to wend his/her way through the maize of optical puzzles and mysteries to create a new world.
Along with the works which were exhibited at the Redwood Library, Newport R.I., other images here are part of my continuing exploratory process investigating perception, mystery, poetry and are thought provoking – tapping into one’s own psyche for understanding.
All images are created from my own visual world at home.
Statement Excerpt from Benedict Leca
Director of Curatorial Affairs,
Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Newport, RI
“These remarkable images evidence an artist willfully evading the confines of solitude and the quotidian, transgressing both through a radical probing of the limits of her medium…By destabilizing the long-held assumptions of the peaceable gaze out into the world, these photographs push us to examine whether we are ready to accept or reject our fast-paced present. As Boden would have it, rationalizing the world need not necessarily be an anxious practice, but one open to humor, visual puns, and optical puzzles to be decoded by the viewer.” View More
Exhibitions
2024 Concord Art, Concord, Massachusetts, Juried by Candice Smith Corby
2022 Tavern Club, Boston, Massachusetts
2021 Redwood Library and Anthenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island
2017 CAA Members Prize Show, Juried by Randi Hopkins, Director of Visual Arts, BCA
2015 71st Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried by Dominic Molon, Chief Curator, RISD
2014 Platinum Exhibition, Cambridge Art Assoc.
2013 Retrospective Show, Tavern Club, Boston
2011 Northeast Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried by Ted Stebbins
2010 BLUE, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried by Amy Ford
2008 Northeast Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried by Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, ICA
2002 Natural Treasures, Patricia Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, NH
2001 The Square, Cambridge Art Assoc.
2000 BLUE, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried
1999 1999 5th Year Exhibition & Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
1999 National Prize Show, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Juried
1998 54th Annual Fall Salon Show, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried
1998 Emerging Boston Artists, Dante Alighieri Soc. Cambridge, Juried
1997 Dana Pond Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Juried
1997 53rd Annual Fall Salon Show, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried
1996 Nine Women & a Guy, Jefferson Cutter House, Arlington, MA
1996 52nd Annual Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried
1995 Summer Show, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA, Juried
1993 Fall Salon Show, Cambridge Art Assoc., Juried
1986 Decoration into Art, Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden, London, UK
Education
2022 Joel Janowitz drawing workshop, Boston, MA
2020-21 Maine Media Workshop, Project course, Brenton Hamilton
2015 Joel Janowitz Monoprint Workshop, Cambridge, MA
2013 Joel Janowitz Monoprint Workshop, Cambridge, MA
2014 Joel Janowitz Monoprint Workshop, Cambridge, MA
2012 Joel Janowitz Monoprint Workshop, Cambridge, MA
2011 Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, Maine
2011 Santa Fe Photographic Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, Maine
2000 New York Studio School, New York City, 2 week marathon drawing
1999 5th Year School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997 Diploma in Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1985-7 Independent Study School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
l984 2-Year Certificate, City&Guilds of London Art School, London, UK
1979 Certificate, Goethe Institute, Murnau, Germany
1978-80 Radcliffe Seminar Program, History of Western Art, Cambridge
1962 B.A. History of Art, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Featured Private Collections
London, England
Munich, Germany
New York City, NY
Santa Fe, NM
Boston, MA
Newport, RI
Honors and Awards
1998 Director’s Prize for Outstanding Painting, Cambridge Art Assoc.
1997 Juror’s Choice, Cambridge Art Assoc.
1997 Dana Pond Finalist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Associations
Chelsea Arts Club, London, England
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA