About > Cathie Bleck Cleveland, Ohio
Cathie Bleck residing in Cleveland Heights, OH for the past twenty years started her successful career as an artist in Chicago, where she was raised as one of nine children in a family of artists on her grandfather's tree farm. She graduated from University of Illinois after studying painting and design. Subsequent moves brought her to New York City, San Francisco, Dallas and England. Bleck worked as a successful, internationally respected illustrator prior to publishing of a monograph of her artwork called Open Spaces in 2006, which quickly launched her career into the gallery world. Solo exhibitions followed in Chicago, Cleveland, and New York City as well as two museum shows in 2008. Bleck attracted The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT who offered her a mid career retrospective for four months. Following this exhibition, The Butler Museum in Youngstown, OH extended her solo exhibition of New Works entitled "Becoming Human".
Bleck continues to grow as artist, exploring scale, surface and subject matter in her passionate form of storytelling built from light - dark rhythms. Throughout her career, numerous international commissions underline the importance of Bleck's work. In 2007 Cathie Bleck was awarded the prestigious honor of designing, in her clay-board technique, the U.S. State Departments Earth Day Image. Other commissions include Sony Records, Time, Esquire, New York Times, LA Times, Warner Bros., Random House, Simon & Schuster, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Forest Service, Martha Stewart Living, Poetry magazine and many other publications. Bleck has also lectured internationally, been profiled in several leading art and design magazines, conducted workshops, written interviews on artists for major arts magazines and has appeared in over 50 exhibitions throughout the world. Bleck's work can be viewed at Yves LaRoche Gallery in Montreal, Meta Gallery in Toronto and Enid Lawson Gallery in London, England.
Cathie's museum shows have included The Butler Institute of American Art (Solo), New Britain Museum of American Art (Solo - Retrospective), El Paso Museum of American Art, Florence Griswold Museum (CT), Egg's Castle (Castel Dell'Ovo - Italy) and Norman Rockwell Museum (MA), among many others. In 2005, Bleck was awarded the Gold Medal from the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, NY
