Catherine Graffam
Catherine Graffam is a painter and educator living in Portland, Maine. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from the New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2015. Her work has been featured in Big Red & Shiny and New Hampshire Magazine, and has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida and several galleries in the Boston area. Her work can also be found in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, University of New Hampshire Art Museum, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the University of North Florida. In 2018, Graffam was profiled in A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women!) by Danielle Krysa, founder of the Jealous Curator. Most recently she was interviewed in a TIME Magazine article and featured in Teen Vogue.
Graffam's work is almost entirely figurative, with a continuing motif of portraiture. Portraits help her better understand the people in her life, including herself. By painting or drawing she is able to build upon and express relationships through emotive brushwork.
Graffam is featured in a solo exhibition at 13FOREST titled Closer, on view October 3 - November 13, 2020.
