This document profiles Cathy Breslaw and her artwork. It provides biographical information on Breslaw as well as descriptions and images of her past installations and pieces. The document discusses her artistic influences and process, including experimenting with new materials like industrial mesh. It also outlines some of Breslaw's inspirations, such as running, nature, and astronomy. The document closes by discussing Breslaw's collaborations and the history of textile and fiber art.

1. Cathy Breslaw
www.cathybreslaw.com
cathybreslaw@roadrunner.com
www.facebook.com/cbreslaw
www.artfullifebycathy.blogspot.com
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2. Contemplation ( installation shot) Gotthelf Gallery, Center for Jewish Culture, La Jolla CA

3. Spirit Moves wall installation 5’ x 9’ paper, wire, paint

4. Contemplation (installation shot) Gotthelf Gallery

5. “Above, Below and Beyond” installation varying dimensions
Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI

6. Becoming an Artist: Early Influences

7. Mill End Shops Baltimore, MD
(Photo 1960’s)

8. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
”The artist must train not only the eye, but also his soul.”

9. “Geometry” watercolor 22” x 30”

10. “Geometry 2” watercolor 22” x 30”

11. “Moving Through “ acrylic, mixed media on paper 22” x 15”

12. “Illumination” acrylic, mixed media on paper 30” x 22”

13. “Fantastic Journey” acrylic, mixed media on paper 30” x 22”

14. Research and Development of My Work

15. Roland Reiss, Mentor and Teacher

16. “Moving Through Time” acrylic, mixed media on plastic paper 26” x 40”

17. “Spaces 1” acrylic on canvas 72” x 60”

18. “Spaces 2” acrylic on canvas 72” x 60”

19. “Connections 4” acrylic on canvas 60” x 72”

20. “Passages” acrylic on canvas 60” x 72”

21. “Passages 3” acrylic on canvas 36” x 36”

22. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Experimentation, Reflection and New Direction

23. Eva Hesse (1936-1970)
Untitled latex,rope,wire
Untitled polymer resin
“I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don’t want to be aware of it or make that my problem.”

24. “Building Blocks” acrylic paint, mixed media 14” x 48”

25. “Jacob’s Ladder” acrylic paint, mixed media 24” x 38” variable

26. New Materials

27. Arriving in Shanghai, China at dusk – Seeing skyline for the first time.

28. Factory, Shanghai China - Manufacturer of Industrial Mesh

29. Factory owners Mr. and Mrs. Tsai explained how extrusion molding machines create the mesh.

30. Tour of factory, how mesh is created,
packaged and shipped.

31. Industrial Plastic Mesh Shipped in Rolls – How Mesh Arrives At My Studio

32. Research and Development of My Work
“ Lightness of Being #1” industrial mesh 99” x 96”

33. “Collections “ industrial mesh, mixed media 108” x 54”
“Collections” (detail)

34. “Blue Breeze” industrial mesh 83” x 32”

35. “Carousel” floor piece industrial mesh, mixed media 11’ diameter

36. Research and Development of My Work
“Labyrinth” floor piece industrial mesh, mixed media 8’ diameter

37. Research and Development of My Work
Concepts and Ideas That Inform My Work

38. Running is both inspiration and meditation for my work and my life.

39. Inspiration: Claude Monet
Water Lilies 1914 – 1926 triptych 6 ½’ x 42’
“…the refuge of a peaceful meditation in the center of a flowering garden.”

40. Research and Development of My Work
“Metamorphosis” industrial mesh, mixed media 8’ diameter

41. Town Square, Malaga, Spain
I am often inspired by the fragile,ephemeral and fleeting nature of life.
Things like ‘bubbles’ become metaphors for my thoughts and ideas.

42. “Street Bubbles” mixed media on plastic 25” x 40”

43. Photo – Taken By Hubble Telescope
Cosmology feeds my imagination and my art

44. Space is all around us and within us - These interconnections
spark my research and deeper thinking.
Photo taken by Hubble Telescope

45. Beginning Ideas for Site Specific Installation with concept of ‘space’ - Oceanside Museum

46. The Creative Process: Forming Ideas
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein

47. “A Matter of Space” Installation (12’ x 10’) Oceanside Museum of Art
(Detail)

48. “Ray Points of Infinity” paint on reflective material 34” x 48”

49. “Space Clash” mixed media on plastic 25” x 38”

50. “Space Odyssey” mixed media on plastic 24” x 23”

51. “Web of Space and Time” mixed media on plastic 22” x 25”

52. “Taking Flight Again “ industrial mesh dimensions variable
(Close Up Image)

53. Collaborations

54. “Weightless” Installation dimensions variable
(detail image)
“Art and Industry”: Five Artists Collaborated with Manufacturers

55. “Art and IndusAAYork Center for the Arts York, PA
Collaboration with New York Wire Company Barry Douglas, President

56. Art Meets Fashion Project Mosaic Gallery San Diego
Art Meets Fashion: Collaborative Project San Diego
“Traveling Vines” Installation industrial mesh Evolution” installation industrial mesh

57. Art Meets Fashion Project
8 month collaboration with the theme of the art and science of wine.
Cathy and Stacie Taylor, fashion designer collaborate
In front: Mark Jesinoski, galldery director,
Melissa Au, photographer, Nora Kassijikian,
Educator In back: Cathy Breslaw , Stacie Taylor
Models modeling Stacie’s clothing

58. History of Textile and Fiber and Contemporary Art

59. Known as the foremost textile artist of the 20th century,
taught by the Bauhaus School in Germany, 1920’s
Annie Albers weavings

60. Elsi Giauque (1900-1989)
“ Spacial Element” linen,silk,wool and metal 1979

61. Lenore Tawney (1907-2007)
“ Woven Forms” 1963

62. Lenore Tawney “Drawing in Air” acrylic box and thread

63. Alan Shields (1944-2005)
installation canvas, paint, thread

64. Sheila Hicks “Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column” 2013-14 Whitney Museum, NY

65. Piotr Uklanski “The Year We Make Contact” , “Red Dwarf” woven 2010

66. Piotr Uklanski “Story of the Eye” fiber reactive dye on jute, hemp textile 2013

67. A Few Words To Leave You With