September 2007
Fallen Angel by Catherine Hall

Catherine Hall presented Fallen Angel, an impromptu installation in her studio at Kasini House. In the door of her studio, Hall mounted a lens which the viewer peeks through to view a scene inside.

The installation statement reads: “This installation emerged from a personal memory of my younger brother being hit by a car at age seven. I saw it happen and went in the ambulance with him to the hospital. He survived.”

Hall’s work often deals with memory of childhood as remembered by adults, but rather than being loaded with nostalgia and revisionism, Hall strives to create visual expressions of these memories that are actual and honest. Catherine Hall’s “Creatures”, for example, are small sculptures made from recombined and altered stuffed animals and dolls in plaster and wax. While playful and toy-like, the objects also reflect some of the more complicated feelings and memories of childhood: the awfulness of monsters or innocent but misunderstood sexuality.

May 2007

Catherine Hall is showed a salon de refuse of x-rated little figurines that were too risqué to show in her creatures exhibit at 215 College Street Co-operative gallery:

Catherine Hall’s Creatures: small sculptures made from recombined and altered stuffed animals and dolls in plaster and wax. At 215 College Artists’ Cooperative Gallery (215 College Street, Second Floor, (802) 863-3662)
The show runs April 27-May 20.

About the Artist
Catherine Hall was born in England and attended art school in Manchester before earning a Joint Honors B.A in English Literature and History of Art. She came to the United States on a fellowship for graduate study, earning an MA in Art History from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MFA in Visual Arts from Norwich University. She taught Art History and Studio Art at Trinity College of Vermont from 1971 to 1998, and was an active member of the Humanities Department there, helping develop courses in an interdisciplinary Comparative Cultural Studies Major in U.S/Canadian Cultural Studies and U.S/Latin American Studies. While chairing the Humanities Department from 1993 to 1996 she was instrumental in developing an interdisciplinary major in Craft Arts Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Trinity’s Business Department, the Shelburne Craft School and Shelburne Museum. She was on the faculty of the MFA in Visual Arts program at Vermont College from 1999-2004, and served as Interim Director from 1999-2000. During this time she wrote the Accreditation Report for the Program. She is currently teaching at St. Michael’s College and in the Virtual Vermont interdisciplinary liberal arts undergraduate degree program at Vermont College of Union Institute and University. Catherine has also taught at the University of Vermont, Vermont Community College, and in a study abroad course in Greece, under the aegis of Castleton State College.

In her art career, Catherine works in media including painting, sculpture and installation. She has exhibited extensively throughout the eastern U.S as well as in England. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Arts Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, Vermont Studio Center and the Ucross Foundation, and has completed numerous commissions including an award-winning “percent for art” project for the State of Massachusetts, and the banners that hang over Church Street in Burlington. Catherine has taught study abroad courses in Mexico, Spain and Greece and in 2003 was external evaluator for an MFA program in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2005 she was a co-founder of the artists’ cooperative gallery at 215 College Street, the site of her former studio. She was the recipient of the 2006 Barbara Smail Award, given both in recognition of her artwork and of service to the community.

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