Professor's exhibit on display at the Richmond Center

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Cat Crotchett, professor of art, will exhibit her work "Surfacing" at Western Michigan University's Kerr Gallery in the Richmond Center for Visual Arts through Friday, Nov. 13.

The work in the exhibition combines elements of Eastern and Western patterns in fragments that together represent something different than their individual parts. They represent an intersection of information as well as ideas of cultural appropriation, assimilation, fragmentation and alteration. Crotchett has focused on the interrelationships between patterns and the new identities that are formed when patterns are layered or juxtaposed.

Crotchett says of her recent work, “While in Indonesia, I was struck by its history of colonization and the cultural influence and change that has been caused over time—particularly by the Dutch.

Cat Crotchett

Crotchett received her MFA in painting with a secondary specialization in lithography from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and received BFAs in painting and art history from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. She has an extensive exhibition record that includes solo exhibitions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Maryland Institute of Art and, the LIP Gallery in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia. Crotchett has been recognized through numerous grants and awards including a Gilmore Emerging Artist Award through the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections.

Gallery hours

RCVA galleries are open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday.

For more information, contact Don Desmett at @email or (269) 387-2455.

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