studioe
Catherine Clifford
Bio/CV | #sea.k.see
EXHIBITIONS
Massachusetts: Cat Clifford and David E Kearns April 17 - May 15, 2021
Fragrant Lemon: April, 2020
TREE: June, 2019 at The Vashon Center for the Arts
Becoming American: August - Septemenber, 2018
Cat Clifford uses drawing, installation, animation and performative video to explore place, time, observation and memory. She is concerned with showing the viewer the subtle daily and seasonal changes to landscape and the related patterns, thoughts and actions that inhabit that place. In underscoring the value of slowing down, Clifford shows the viewer what they often neglect the time to see.
Her work has shown at Portland Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Dallas Contemporary, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle University's Hedreen Gallery and Arthouse at the Jones Center. Clifford is a recipient of a Contemporary Northwest Art Award from Portland Art Museum, an Artist Trust Fellowship and a Betty Bowen Award Finalist Prize from Seattle Art Museum. She received her MFA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and currently lives and works in Seattle, WA.
Bio/CV | #sea.k.see
EXHIBITIONS
Massachusetts: Cat Clifford and David E Kearns April 17 - May 15, 2021
Fragrant Lemon: April, 2020
TREE: June, 2019 at The Vashon Center for the Arts
Becoming American: August - Septemenber, 2018
Cat Clifford uses drawing, installation, animation and performative video to explore place, time, observation and memory. She is concerned with showing the viewer the subtle daily and seasonal changes to landscape and the related patterns, thoughts and actions that inhabit that place. In underscoring the value of slowing down, Clifford shows the viewer what they often neglect the time to see.
Her work has shown at Portland Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Dallas Contemporary, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle University's Hedreen Gallery and Arthouse at the Jones Center. Clifford is a recipient of a Contemporary Northwest Art Award from Portland Art Museum, an Artist Trust Fellowship and a Betty Bowen Award Finalist Prize from Seattle Art Museum. She received her MFA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and currently lives and works in Seattle, WA.
![We shall by morning Inherit the earth Our foot's in the door (Plath), 2020, Glazed stoneware with ink, 6 x 5.5 x 5 in.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f874302d4d4e0011f11abb2529ed10c2ac60e0774fbd40d9f6155143821b9ee/clifford-1.jpeg)
![In the light of the clear blue...(Parton) 2020, Stoneware with wash (Sold)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6615f66228144dc6f27ce3405fe01870ab10eb69ada9e734ea0bc00b8c860b0e/IMG_0308.jpg)
![Massachusetts: Cat Clifford & David E Kearns](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8efd6b7ae87d79f97e3f23c724bb85795bffa94e44dbb52b02ee4cc2c3ec2f7d/04192021-Mass--18.jpg)
![Sweet sweet lady of the ocean gale (detail)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b94be04b28b7075659bcc7370fe2d78c24d4064719d22b47e59247f4953833e/IMG_0296.jpg)
![Sweet sweet lady of the ocean gale ... all I got to do is be here breathing feeling unbelieve-n ... We flow along in rhymes (Brown) 2021, Porcelain with glaze and wash, dimensions variable](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cb3a03f1a464af156f5001b66fef5c4a7c844d19b744f319f830bdc74cf774f/04192021-Mass--4.jpg)
![Sweet sweet lady of the ocean gale (detail)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18926dd9bddd6404cf4f8f455691ec75455219e57bcbccd895b86ee10a5b5107/IMG_0297.jpg)
![Sun will always come for someone (b side)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85224caeb9a4e0c4c86502383b292b6d6923af8d43abf548b5d1ab5befcfb78d/IMG_0324.jpg)
![Sun will always come for someone (for Oscar) 2020, Glazed stoneware](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7506d3e4e5a4b81877102207dc4ae75e54e67551071b012034b24badf0e59d6f/Catherine-Clifford--Sun-will-always-come-for-someone-for-Oscar-2020--glazed-stoneware-1-500.jpg)
![It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it can be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones (Oliver) 2020, glazed stoneware, dimensions variable](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6543d93bcd01e5ee16095738af84894c49aeadfccb6a96f55e47d513774ad8f/Catherin-Clifford--It-doesnt-have-to-be-the-blue-iris--it-can-be-weeds-in-a-vacant-lot--or-a-few-small-stones-Oliver-2020--glazed-stoneware--dimensions-variable.jpg)
![and long pale afternoons besides, and so many mysteries beautiful as eggs in a nest, still unhatched (Oliver), 2020, Glazed porcelain](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cf68c0af8a64513b9d17fd73e863332de9d08cba213c3ea3bbc93d82af0a043/IMG_0292.jpg)
![Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall (Morrison) 2021, glazed porcelain and stoneware, plant and water](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d5887680b10ab0a4242fd153491c723792b6540044984d3452a61750e7793fe/Cat-Clifford--Look-at-the-flowers-and-the-green-grass-so-tall-Morrison-2021--Glazed-porcelain-and-stoneware--plant-and-water-950.jpg)
![When the rooster crows at the break of dawn look out your window and I’ll be gone (Dylan) 2020, Glazed stoneware, 4 x 6.75 in.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea41c1833090523641da0ceaa0b4a0016b48c2d72a37ae8ec83aa900c436d8de/Cat-Clifford--When-the-rooster-crows-at-the-break-of-dawn-look-out-your-window-and-Ill-be-gone-Dylan-2020--Glazed-stoneware.jpg)
![Massachusetts: Cat Clifford & David E Kearns](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/557b03843a72422ea329fc3423a862ee8932d01c43522f7d399726dc53324742/04192021-Mass--21.jpg)
![Oh future yes I am (Earthgang) 2020, Cyanotype on paper](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfb0616e71970d79820a14320bb130f5254375df7b05e278c5e4f5a594483643/Clifford--Oh-future-yes-I-am-Earthgang-2020--cyanotype-on-paper-800.jpg)
![installation view of Remains ink on paper, madrona, steel 2008, Portland Art Museum](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48a812315fc0e88f34bf07edfb8ece00cda1c979ab680ba3374381e3907fb069/8.-Install-portland-art-museum.jpg)
![Island Marble, SJINHP (video still)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3c826e166c49c5f9cf1c44886c02ab3bb1fcd37d66bc751c57e5fdbdbef667b/Clip--7.jpg)
![The Interior Was Like an Eva Hess, falling (video still)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d8a8be9d0675bfce88b8a09e92a49abfc6304f396ffaeb43b26d3b9bf1baf8b/still-the-interior-was-like-an-eva-hess-2.jpg)