CATHERINE WIDGERY PO Box 400452, Cambridge, MA 02140 Cell (508) 237-1660 [email protected] www.widgery.com EDUCATION 1975: Yale University, B.A. Cum Laude & Special Distinction in Fine Arts, Walker Prize, Fine Arts Faculty, Yale University 1974: Tyler School of Art in Rome, Temple University. SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS 2019: THE GATHERING PLACE in Tulsa, OK dichroic glasswork in Lodge (in progress) 2019: STUDENT INNOVATION CENTER, Iowa State University, (in progress) integrated artwork, $400,000 2018: LIGHTSCAPE, Blair LRT Station Ottawa, Ontario, $465,000 (In progress) Thirty-seven screens of dichroic glass “flags” flutter in the breeze as trains enter and exit the station, catching the light and color of the surroundings. Interactive lighting programs animate the environment at night. Project in partnership with cj fleury and BBB Architects. 2018: URBAN FABRIC, YC Condo Building, Toronto, ON $410,000 (In progress) Using a language of repeated horizontals that are woven together with subtle contrasting colors and depths lines of glass wrap the building in a ‘fabric’ of syncopated patterns. The colors also provide a counterpoint to the current muted colors of the building to suggest a lively interior life within the complex, reflecting the animation of the surrounding urban environment. 2017: TRACES OF TIME AND AIR, Tate Science Building, University of Minnesota. Interior and exterior screens of moving squares reflect and project color and light animating the spaces around them. The works exist beyond their physical boundaries. 2017: LEADING LIGHTS, K Street Gateway Project, Washington, DC, $480,000 (In progress) LEADING LIGHTS brings color, light and animation to the full length of the 2100 block of K St. Commissioned by the Golden Triangle District, the 34 triangular dichroic columns turn in the wind, reflecting the surroundings and projecting color throughout the area, becoming lantern beacons at night. 2017: WOVEN LIGHT, Northfield Uplands Park, Stapleton, CO, $360,000 (in progress) WOVEN LIGHT is an outdoor room; the shadows, light and projected color make you more conscious of the sun and the breeze. From the outside, the dichroic glass between the slats reflects the sky and surrounding trees. Inside is like being in a kaleidoscope of moving colored lights as the sun shifts angle. Endlessly changing patterns of crisscrossing shadows and reflected light extend the impact of the art beyond its physical boundaries to create a shady refuge from the intensity of the prairie light. 2017: SKY CYCLES, BART Station at Warm Springs, Fremont, CA., $984,000 Sky Cycles weaves images from different times of day, different times of year and different points of view into single images that are in turn woven into the present moment, the actual sky from the point of each viewer. 1 2016: TIME’S SHADOW, Rideau Centre- Ottawa, ON., $675,000 Three enormous glass boxes with a total area of 11,000 square feet on the façades of the Centre. Etched images of trees and leaves alternate with stripes of clear glass in front of hybrid images of sky and forests throughout the seasons also cut into alternating stripes. As the viewer moves past and the etched lines alternately reveal and obscure one of the images, there is the perception of sky and forest fading in and out of view, creating the illusion of both depth and 2016: ARBOR WINDS, Stadium Bridge and State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, $360,000 Art elements on three separate sites create a gateway to the town. Etched glass and stone works with images of trees at two moments in time, blown by the wind. They are a metaphor for the energy and beauty of the town filled with mature trees planted by the founders and protected by the residents. 2016: FOREST LIGHTS, Oregon Zoo - Portland, OR, $200,000 A façade treatment and five towers 30’ tall with dichroic glass “leaves” that move in the wind refer to light coming through the bamboo forests of Asia for the new Asian elephant area of the zoo. 2015: PASSING STORMS, Oregon State Hospital Junction City, OR, $320,000 Two large courtyard installations Rain and Cloud that move with the wind and use weather as a metaphor for the complex and intangible workings of the mind. Working on the design team with mental health patients as well as architects, landscape architects and all the stakeholders. 2015: SKY VEIL, Ogden Juvenile Courthouse, Ogden, UT, $180,000 All the mullions of the façade of the building have panels of dichroic glass on the inside faces so that the visitors who enter the spaces will see the reflection of the sky and mountains behind and to the east through a veil of color. Boundaries are removed making the view limitless. The structure of the curtain wall is dematerialized leaving nothing between you and the sky. 2014: LEAVES OF WIND Collaborative design team work on 22 transit shelters and integrated art on the Mesa Corridor Rapid Transit System El Paso, TX., $240,000 Each station has images of local flora woven through the sun screens grating in such a way that the images appear and disappear as one moves by. The works play with the notion of time and movement through space where the art has no mass and dissolves as an illusion. 2014: RIVER DRAGON Metropolitan Council/Metro Transit commission for the Western Transit Station, $187,000 Created for the Asian community who think of this as the “Little Mekong” area, the art reflects aspects of their culture using the image of the river and the dragon woven into the station architecture. Stainless steel. St. Paul MN 2014: RIPPLES - Raleigh Durham Airport, NC A glass wall 50’ long is transformed into a moving image of rain falling on the surface of water. Working with Rufus Butler Seder using his patented technique in a way never used before, depth and movement of light and color, expanding rings of water delight the visitors to the airport. 2012: CRYSTAL LIGHT for the Airport Transfer Station Salt Lake City, Utah, $589.000 The artwork engages all the glass in the station with laser etched images of water in its various states. The glass elevator tower is 60’ high and treated on all sides. Stainless steel discs in the pavement catch the light as if flowing water. Programmed LED lighting creates 2 shifting patterns and color throughout the station. Budget including glass and lighting credits $589.000 2012: HALO exterior courtyard installation dichroic glass College Bourget, Rigaud, Quebec 8 x 6 x 6’ stainless steel and dichroic glass. $85,000 Interactive work with moving dichroic glass panels. 2012: MINDSHADOWS, for the New Republic and North Toronto Collegiate Designed for The New Republic development in Toronto. 20 x 10 x 10’ North Toronto Collegiate Institute, $294,000 It is a metaphor for the human brain where words are the form of thought. Made of perforated aluminum, this work is an engineering feat with no massive supporting structure despite it 20’ height. It is dematerialized form that glows from the inside out with programmed lighting at night. 2010: CLOUDBREAK, commissioned by the City of Denver, 14 x 41 x 2’ glass tubes, steel, stained glass and lights, $250,000 The glass cloud form bulges through a metal grid as if pushing into the room with light and color. The wall is back lit by the sun and at night is luminous from the outside. Selected as one of the outstanding works of 2010 at the PAN Americans for the Arts conference. 2009: TIDAL SONG, Commissioned by the City of New Rochelle, New York. 120' x 14' x 10', blown glass, programmable lights, speakers and sound system with sensors. $200,000. Akin to a wave of energy, Tidal Song creates an immersive, interactive environment for everyone. Pulses of light and color sweep across the bridge and curl up to the new Plaza. Tidal Song links New Rochelle’s traditional connection to coastal waters with dynamic energies of ‘now’. Nature’s forms are woven in a language of technology. Water as a metaphor comes alive, inspiring life and energy. Pedestrians play the space of the bridge like a musical instrument, as they move through triggering sensors that create varying patterns of light and sound. At night the movement of pedestrians is visible to the world outside. 2012 Winner of the TGK “All You Need is Glass” competition in Europe. 2008: SHADOW PLAY, Commissioned by the City of Tempe and Valley Metro Rail at Lightrail station at 3rd and Mill in Tempe, Arizona. 20 x 40 x 120’, etched glass and silk screened images, $254,000. Ghost shadows printed on the shade canopies overhead are revealed by the sunlight as it one were standing beneath desert trees that are no longer there. Two mesquite trees are etched onto vertical planes of glass. The ghostly image is dissolving light both with the sun in the day time with the lighting at night that shifts color subtly. 2007: HEAD IN THE CLOUDS, Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India. 34 x 16 x 20’ Painted chiffon, steel. Cubes of translucent sky painting were first worn for a performance and then installed in the tall atrium of the main campus building. They tumble through space as if the sky had taken on form and entered the building. 2005: LIGHT STORM, Commissioned by Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona. Work covers an area of 27,000 square feet, stainless steel. $120,000. In this environmental work over 30,000 stainless discs are set into the stone paving as if they had fallen from the metal shade screens and a desert wind sent them swirling throughout the complex. The discs have no mass and the spiral and wave patterns are revealed through reflected light and color as the viewer moves through the space.