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Survey of artist's career on display at Anderson Gallery
By KRISTIN E.M. RIEMER
Reporter Contributor
An exhibition surveying the six-decade career of Buffalo artist Catherine Catanzaro Koenig will open in UB's Anderson Gallery with a reception from 6-8:30 p.m. on May 30.
Catherine Catanzaro Koenig, "Plaster Saint" from the "Facsimile Female" series, 2000, egg tempera on panel
The exhibition, entitled "Catherine Catanzaro Koenig Six Decades of Drawing and Painting," will be on display through Oct. 12.
A life long resident of Buffalo, Koenig is best known for her luminous still-life paintings of such objects as a dark bowler hat and eggshells. The Anderson Gallery exhibition, which includes more than 65 works of art and several objects borrowed from Koenig's studio, illustrates the transitions in the artist's career and provides a fresh look at her ongoing experimentation with ordinary objects.
Born in Buffalo in 1921, Koenig graduated from the Albright Art School of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy in 1942. With her late husband, James, she raised three children while pursuing a career in art. Koenig taught at The Art Institute of Buffalo from 1946-56, Niagara Community College from 1977-79 and UB's Millard Fillmore College from 1961-79.
Koenig has shown her work worldwide and received many national awards in drawing and painting, including, most recently, a substantial grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Inc. The Krasner grant, designed to support professional artists of merit, covers living and working expenses for one year.
Koenig's works are included in numerous public and private collections, among them the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, UB Anderson Gallery, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Butler Institute of American Art, The Library of Congress, Oklahoma Art Center and Ball State University Art Center.
Koenig's work also will be on view from July 12 through Sept. 28 in a concurrent exhibition, "Realism's Allure: Walter R. Garver, Donald R. Haug and Catherine Catanzaro Koenig," at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Rockwell Hall at Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Ave.
UB Anderson Gallery is located on Martha Jackson Place off Englewood Avenue near the UB South Campus. Summer gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The gallery will be closed on Memorial Day, May 26; July 4, and Labor Day, Sept. 1.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, call 829-3754.