Catherine Prescott

           Bio 2019
 

• Catherine Prescott was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Wisconsin. Her work consists primarily of portraits for exhibition and competitions, and for both public and private commissions. She also paints still lifes and landscapes. She has twice exhibited her portraits in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. This year she received a prize in the TRAC competition for exhibition at the annual conference. In 2018 she was commissioned to paint the official portrait of governor Tom Corbett. In 2017 she exhibited with Women Painting Women in their first group traveling show curated by Alia El-Bermani and Diane Feissel. Other 2017 shows include “Sight Unseen,” a collaboration between Abend Gallery in Denver, and Poets/Artists magazine, published by Didi Menendez, and “Honoring the Legacy of David Park,” curated by John Seed and held at Santa Clara University. In 2016, she was one of nine painters asked by Principle Gallery, Charleston, to exhibit portraits of the nine parishioners who were killed at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June 2015. The artists then gave the portraits to the victims’ families.
• Catherine has also received awards in the Portrait Society of America, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Salmagundi Club and ten first prizes or Best in Show in juried exhibits. She was one of ten women invited to participate in “Inspiring Figures” at the Butler Institute of American Art. Her work has been shown at the Brauer Museum of Art, the Susquehanna Museum of Art, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Phillips Museum of Art, and in many galleries since 1974. Her most recent one-person shows were at North Park University in Chicago and Long Island Academy of Fine art. Her association with Women Painting Women began with their first exhibition at Robert Lange in 2010, and has continued with group shows at Principle Gallery in Alexandria and Charleston. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, Image Journal, CIVA Seen, American Arts Quarterly, The Art of The Portrait, and American Art Collector.

• Prescott taught painting and drawing at Messiah College for 20 years, and has taught intermittently in Gordon College’s Orvieto, Italy, program since 1998. She taught portrait workshops at Andreeva Portrait Academy and Image Summer Institute. Public collections include the Governor’s Offices of the Pennsylvania State Capitol, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Messiah College, Fulton Bank in Lancaster, PA. Catherine and her husband live and work in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and have two grown daughters.
• www.prescottpaintings.com
• cprescot@messiah.edu
• 491 Brenneman Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055

* This statement has been provided directly by the artist in association to their 14^th International ARC Salon entries. This content has not been edited for typos or grammatical errors and has not been vetted for accuracy.