This week, I welcomed back, painter, Catherine Haggarty to the Peps pod. We spoke about her background as a high school basketball player and how the focus and commitment required to be an athlete have so many parallels to the life of an artist. Catherine makes luminous paintings and drawings using spray paint, acrylic, watercolor and oil stick of imagined domestic interiors, all put through her uniquely surrealist and prismatic lens. Also, find out what her term "Instagram Brain" means!

Catch Catherine's work in person in "Support Structures" at TSA (NY) until June 18, 2023

Catherine's website: www.catherinehaggarty.com and IG: @catherine_haggarty

The Canopy Program is online at www.nyccritclub.com or on IG: @the_canopy_program_

Catherine's uber-helpful How to Host A Studio Visit episode

Catherine earned her MFA from Rutgers University and has recently shown her work with Geary Contemporary and Hashimoto Contemporary in NYC and at Badr el Jundi Gallery in Madrid. She recently showed her work at Future Fairs in NYC with Lorin Gallery (Los Angeles)

Works mentioned: LA Light, Too Many Ideas, Monument to work, Droste Effect for Max

Artists mentioned: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey, Japanese Ukiyo-e artists, Matisse, Sylvia Mangold, Rita MacDonald, Chardin, Mary Cassatt, Catherine Murphy, Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper, Méret Oppenheim, Andrew Prayzner

Book mentioned: Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting by Norman Bryson

*Shout out to all the Hall of Fame Dads past and present and especially to James Bernard Haggarty, who was the Bee's Knees.*

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Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: ⁠https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s⁠

Amy's Interview on Two Coats of Paint: ⁠https://tinyurl.com/2v2ywnb3⁠

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