Cathie bleck biography of martin

Cathie Bleck, an internationally respected artist is best known for her distinctive works in  scratchboard and kaolin clay board.  Her stylized forms are cut through inks and handmade pigments, revealing the white of the kaolin clay beneath.

It is a process similar in concept to woodblock printing.

Bleck's work was featured in two American art museum solo exhibitions in 2008, The New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut and The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio.

Bleck's artist monograph "Open Spaces" was released in 2006, launching her studio artwork into the gallery and museum world.  Her work was selected from 600 female artists in the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art entitled "Women Artists at New Britain" and among eighty works including Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dorothea Lange, Louise Nevelson, Lee Krasner, and Helen Frankenthaler, Sarah Miriam Peale -to the contemporary-Cindy Sherman, Ellen Carey, Irene Hardwick