Tuesday, March 18

Listening


Detail


Cast bronze

21" x 8" x 22"

Limited Edition

"Catherine's years spent raising horses shine through
in her close bond and continuing fascination with
their strength and grace. Several of her most significant
works in bronze and ceramic are horses, sometimes
with the additional allusion to her own connection to
them. The person usually appears preternaturally
small in comparison with the beast, accentuating the
concept of human vulnerability." Sam Heller Fine Art


right side




left side


The fun ... in portraying the horse is using...
negative space
to invite the viewer to look closer and within.

I am interested in texture and in allowing the clay ...
to express their own language.
I like to make the image float,
an echo of my memories
of the thrilling sensation of riding.


Minerva Gallery
Peter Bartlow Gallery

Sunday, March 16

Lying Down


Glazed clay with a bronze oxide wash

17"x 8"x 11"

Chisholm Gallery

Muse


Terra cotta dried clay with terra sigillata

18"x 12"x 15"

Catherine Shinnick: Nature’s Disciple by Julia R. Myers

"Using the horse as a metaphor, a sculptor depicts the relationship between the human
subconscious and nature.

Viewing the work of Catherine Shinnick, one can immediately observe a respect and affinity for horses. A thorough understanding of these animals obtained through years spent training them comes through in the sculptures that very accurately, though somewhat abstractly, mimic equine behavior. Yet the sculptures reveal more than a love for horses; they allude to a reverence for and a connection to the natural world as a whole." excerpt by Julia R. Myers

Ceramics Monthly; Oct2006, Vol. 54 Issue 8, p34-36, 3p, 4 color photographs

Chisholm Gallery

Galloping V


Ceramic sculpture - 20"x10"x18"

Celadon glaze on the base
and low fired glaze with copper oxide wash
on the horse and rider

Saturday, March 15

Fox on the Bridge


Hand built ceramic garden sculpture

21" x 5" x 16"

Chisholm Gallery

Rolling Horse


“Rolling Horse,” 17 in. (43 cm) in length,
extruded and handbuilt terra cotta,
with nickel oxide wash under a crawling glaze,
fired to Cone 04 in an electric kiln - 1998

"I started looking around at artists who showed animals when I found Catherine Shinnick. Shinnick sculpts horses in a way that brings the viewer closer to nature through her style."
- Amber Lombard
from a project "Behind the locked door"
An archaeology of the store rooms of the
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford

Galloping


Glazed clay with a bronze oxide wash

20"x 5"x 16"

Chisholm Gallery

Friday, March 14

Laughing Horse X


30" (76 sm) in length, slab-built low fire white clay,
with copper oxide wash and matt glaze,
fired to Cone 05 in an electric kiln.

Chisholm Gallery

Passion


18" (36 cm) in height,
handbuilt terra cotta,
red iron oxide wash, slip and pastel,
fired to Cone 04 in an electric kiln - 1999

Tuesday, March 11

The Stone Dreamer




Title Stone Dreamer, The: Catherine Shinnick (25818)
Physical Color; Sound; 14 minutes
Copyrighted 1990
Distributor INSEL HOUSE PRODUCTIONS (INSEL)
Producer INSEL HOUSE PRODUCTIONS (INSEL)
Audience High School, College (SCA)
Subj rating General
Synopsis Documentary on stone sculptor Catherine Shinnick, who lives year-round on Bois Blanc Island in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan. She discusses her work and its attunement to her close relationship with nature and seasonal cycles on the island.
Subjects Artists; Michigan; Sculpture; Women Artists
Holdings Videotape 1/2" VHS (NTSC): Fourth Street, 1 copy, Rent $0.00


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Sunday, March 9

Bobcats


Ceramic

Male (on right): 24"h x 15"w x 15"d
Female (on left): 20"h x 20"w x 12"d

Exibited in 12+12 show in 2007
WSG Washington Street Gallery

in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan


Washington Street Gallery’s artist-owners
invite another artist to show with them.