Catherine Goursolas is a painter. Her primarily abstract work explores through gesture and color the relationships between form and space with a desire for chromatic minimalism. She attempts to move towards an expression that is both synthetic, solid, evident, and sensitive. Her subject is painting itself, its vibration, its expressiveness, and the space of silence it inhabits.
After studying art history, she began painting in various workshops and quickly started personal work. In 1995, seeking a more contemporary approach, she spent two years in the Bordeaux workshop of artists Deborah B. Bowman and Patrick Marty, where she was able to develop a demanding practice. She then continued her pictorial work alone and began to show it alongside a teaching career. Between 2015 and 2017, she co-managed an associative gallery in Dole (Jura) with another artist. Since 2019, she shares a large studio in the French Jura with her partner, also a painter, dedicates herself exclusively to creation, and regularly participates in group or solo exhibitions as well as studio openings as part of the Jura biennial.
She has been invited by a German gallery for a solo exhibition in December 2024.
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