Painting & Drawing

e-mail: cathryn.sugg@umontana.edu
website: cathryn.sugg@imagekind.com
MFA Thesis Paper (pdf): Inbetween

Bio

I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada; spending my time either running through the prairie, in my father’s studio, or enduring a small town education.

At 16 I moved to Las Vegas, Nevada which led to my attendance at UNLV, where I earned my B.F.A. Upon graduating from The University of Montana, Missoula with my M.F.A, I will return to Glasgow Montana where I have a husband, a studio and a surplus of time and space waiting for my artistic disposal.

Statement

This work attempts to define the space between so-called opposites. The area of constant disquiet that exists between gatherer/ hunter, feminine/ masculine, urban/ rural, interior/ exterior, wife/ spinster, dependant/ heroic.

The work uses iconic and regionally recognizable imagery to investigate a slippery and shifting space of tension, of “in-between-ness”.