Pink Torso, 2023

Photography

35 x 25 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,200

Starting Bid: $2,240

Buy It Now: $4,800

CATHERINE FERGUSON's work is featured in public and private collections across the region, including major Nebraska museums such as the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, the Museum of Nebraska Art, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the Landmarks building, and the Omaha Public Library Main Branch. Ferguson is particularly well known for installations that are transcendent and transformative, and critics have noted the idealistic and often mythical quality intrinsic to her work. In the 2005 January/February issue of NY Arts Magazine, Kim Carpenter praised Ferguson's ability for "deftly weaving symbols universally inherent in myth, memory, mysticism and metaphysics." And in the March 2007 edition of Review Magazine, Mike Krainak noted her "marvelous temple figures" and stated, "Ferguson's work certainly continues to be uplifting for both her and her viewer." Catherine has also worked within the community to benefit the visual arts. She served six years as a board member for the Nebraska Arts Council and until recently also served on the board for Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, an organization consistently listed in the top five of the nation's Artist-in-Residency programs. In 2018 at Modern Arts Midtown, Catherine exercised her diversity and vision in large scale steel sculpture, delicate wall relief wire motifs, and miniature cut-outs of her "All My People Series."