About Catherine Puccio

 

Catherine Puccio first fell in love with oil painting in the traditional manner as a student in the Young People’s Class at the Ridgewood Art Institute, in Ridgewood, NJ, under the tutelage of painter and teacher Arthur Maynard, as well as most recently John Phillip Obsorne.

Ms. Puccio received her Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Williams College and Master’s Degree in Art and Education from the University of Bridgeport. She taught elementary and middle school art in Massachusetts and Connecticut for 15 years and went on to teach oil painting at the Ridgewood Art Institute.

Catherine’s love for animals, in conjunction with her pursuit of truth in nature, evokes a human and oftentimes humorous quality to her animal portraits. She strives for that same vibrant connection in her still life paintings, portraits and landscape works. The artist tells a story in her paintings, and always finds beauty in the ordinary.

 

Education

Cast Drawing, Anatomy Workshops, Grand Central Academy, NY, NY
Ridgewood Art Institute, Classes with John Osborne, Ridgewood, NJ
Master’s Degree, Art and Education, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport,CT
B.A., Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Ridgewood Art Institute, Classes with Arthur Maynard, Ridgewood, NJ

Study Abroad

London and Dedham England, Landscape Painting
Rome and Florence, Italy

Exhibitions

2015 Mystic Arts Center Juried Exhibitions, Mystic, CT
2014 Magic of Christmas Palette Tree, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
2014-2015 Lyme Art Association Juried Exhibitions, Old Lyme, CT
2011-2015 Essex Art Association Summer Juried Show, Essex, CT
2010 114th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NY, NY
2009 78th Annual Juried Exhibition, Hudson Valley Art Association
2009 29th Regional Open Juried Show, Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ
2008 28th Regional Open Juried Show, Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ
2007 76th Annual Exhibition, Hudson Valley Art Association
2005 Annual Associate Artists’ Show Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT
2005 Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society Juried Show, Old Lyme, CT
2005 Society of Creative Arts of Newtown “Color in January” Show, Newtown, CT