NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
2009 College Art Association Conference
[ March, 2009 ]
I am proud to announce that my three-year term as President of the New Media Caucus began at the 2009 CAA Conference in Los Angeles, California. Additionally, Joan Truckenbrod and I chaired a panel at CAA entitled The Tangiality of Digital Media with presentations from Paul Hertz, Harrison Higgs, Dr. Angela Geary, Katherine Mezur and Wafaa Bilal.
Spring 2009 Phoebe Journal
[ February, 2009 ]
I was invited to create images for the cover, multiple interior spreads and edge images (that reveal themselves as you fan the pages) for the literary journal, Phoebe - published at George Mason University. Information about the latest Phoebe Journal including how to purchase a copy can be found online at the Phoebe Website. Among many captivating selections, there is a fascinating essay on collaboration by Lyn Hejinian which prefaces a collaborative poetry project created specifically for the Spring 2009 Journal edition.
Columbia College Chicago
[ Summer, 2008 ]
I am happy to announce that I have accepted a full-time faculty position in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where I will begin teaching in Fall of 2008.
1708 Gallery
[ May, 2008 ]
Forgotten Constellations was installed at the 1708 Gallery located in Richmond, Virginia for a month-long exhibition. Prints from the Aquifers series and the Celestial Workshops series were also shown.
College Art Association Conference
[ February, 2008 ]
I chaired a New Media Caucus affiliate panel at the 2008 CAA conference entitled art blogging == global.exhibit(local); which also has a companion website. Also, I am proud to announce that I was elected to become the next president of the New Media Caucus; my three year term is set to begin at the CAA Conference in February of 2009.
Northern Illinois University
[ Winter, 2008 ]
Towards a vast reservoir of comets... was installed for a month-long exhibition in the Jack Olson Gallery at the Northern Illinois University School of Art during January and February of 2008. A week-long artist's visit and gallery talk coincided with the installation.
Prairie Center of the Arts
[ Summer, 2007 ]
I will be in residence at the Prairie Center of the Arts in Peoria, Illinois during the mid-summer months of 2007 - working on a new printmaking project. I have been exploring "bookness" as related to the notion of the reduced (print as single page book) and the expanded (space of installation as book) in preparation for upcoming solo shows at Northern Illinois University and at the 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA.
Gallery 2, Washington State University
[ March, 2006 ]
As part of my visit to WSU in March, 2006 I installed a process piece with the working title Hunting Prayers. Included within this installation is a large (over 9 foot tall) xerographic print of New Prayer for St. Anthony. A smaller, 16 x 21" version is currently being printed by Barbara Foster's Advanced Printmaking Class at SFSU as an editioned lithograph & woodblock print with hand-stenciling.
University of Akron
[ January, 2006 ]
Medicinal Craft of Cephalopods, Recollections of a Somnambulist and A Short History of the Bezoar Stone are included in the exhibition Outside the Box: New Cinematic Experiences, curated by Seth Thompson, which runs from 1/17 to 2/24, 2006 in the Emily Davis Gallery at the University of Akron.
New Museum of Contemporary Art
[ October, 2005 ]
The physical installation version of Misplaced Reliquary will be exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC on Tuesday, October 18th. The public exhibition will feature each of the 2004/05 Rhizome commissions.
SFSU Fine Arts Gallery
[ September, 2005 ]
The physical installation version of Misplaced Reliquary is currently on display at the SFSU Fine Arts Gallery from Sept.17 - Oct.15 as part of the ECO exhibition, featuring artists who "...collaborate with environmental forces and playfully manipulate nature through various technologies..."
SFMOMA Artists Gallery
[ July, 2005 ]
Medicinal Craft of Cephalopods is currently installed at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery as part of a thirty-year retrospective of works created at the Kala Art Institute.
Rhizome Commission
[ January, 2005 ]
I completed a commission for Rhizome.org: a new work for the Gameboy Advance entitled Misplaced Reliquary. In October, 2005 it will be on exhibit (with other Rhizome Commissions) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Turbulence Commission
[ November, 2004 ]
I was awarded a commission from Turbulence.org with funds made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts to create a new work entitled Collective Geology of the Erased Space - which can be viewed online now.
Digital Cornell Boxes
[ September, 2004 ]
In completion of a residency awarded through the 2004 artist fellowship program at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California I created three digital Cornell boxes for the Gameboy Advance which are on display at Kala from September 2, until October 9, 2004. See the online documentation for more info: Digital Cornell Boxes.
Whitney Artport
[ July, 2004 ]
I have been selected as the featured artist for the month of July for the Whitney Museum of American Art through their online gallery/portal, Artport. After July 2004, my work will be available in the Artport archive.
Paul Catanese is a hybrid media artist, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College Chicago and the President of the New Media Caucus, a College Art Association Affiliate Society. His artwork has been exhibited widely including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, La Villette-Numerique and Stuttgarter Filmwinter among others. Paul is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including commissions for the creation of new artwork from Turbulence.org as well as Rhizome.org.