CATIE RADNEY

Catie Radney is a progressive abstract painter from Alabama. Radney holds a Bachelors Degree from the University of Alabama and apprenticed under Professor Hugh Williams (National Endowment recipient and Alabama Artist of the Year recipient) for over 10 years. She creates, coordinates her business, and educates out of her personal studio in Alexander City, Alabama; where she also makes her home. Radney’s process replicates the constant struggle for balance in all of life. Her content expression mirrors how she navigates her personal life. Radney’s work is very personal yet also universal in it’s concept and incarnation. Creativity is necessary to keeping her present, stable and alive. She has a voracious appetite for image making which is rarely satiated. When painting she uses the canvas as an opportunity to confess her personal thoughts and experiences or diatribe about what she cannot reconcile from the world outside of the studio. As the marks evolve into shape/form she begins responding with color and shape, layers and layers of color and shape. Approaching a solution involves allowing the figurative forms in the composition to be birthed into existence. The implied figures give structure to the raw nature of the layers and layers of underpainting. The figures play the role of masking or distracting from what is too literal or too honest for for the artist yet to reveal. This donning of recognizable form in paint mirrors the every human’s experience of wearing an acceptable persona to navigate their daily life.