Catherine Perehudoff Fowler - Biography
Catherine Perehudoff Fowler is a renowned Canadian landscape painter inspired by the expanse of the Western prairie, the natural splendor of the wilderness, mountains, and lakes, and the romance of the Atlantic seashore. She was born into a well-known artistic family in 1958 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; her parents, Dorothy Knowles and William Perehudoff, are both painters, as is her older sister Rebecca Perehudoff. Catherine Perehudoff Fowler studied painting, weaving, and folk art at the Voss Folkschool in Norway (1976-1977), and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon (1977-1981). Since 1979, Perehudoff Fowler has also participated in artist workshops at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, and has worked alongside such artists as Reta Cowley and Barbara Ballachey. Catherine lived in the city of New York for a year and worked for artist Kenneth Noland at his South Salem studio. As a landscape painter, the surrounding scenery of upstate New York and Connecticut influenced her. During this time she developed an interest in the Hudson River school of landscape painters. Art fairs where her landscape paintings have been or will be exhibited are: Architectural Digest Home Design Show, New York; ART Salzburg Contemporary & Antiques International; ART Innsbruck – International Art Fair; Artifact Gallery at Monaco Yacht Show, World Wide Art LA; Artexpo New York, Art Shopping at the Paris Carousel du Louvre; and Spectrum Miami. Most recently she had a solo exhibition in 2019 at Adelinda Allegretti Studio&Gallery in Gualdo Tadino, Italy. In 2017 she had a solo show at Artifact Gallery in New York City. Her solo exhibition in 2014, was at Art Placement in Saskatoon, her home town. In 2010 she had a solo show at Gallery Gevik in Toronto, and in 2008, a two-person exhibit with Graham Fowler at the Gallery on Cork Street in London, England. Catherine Perehudoff Fowler lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is married to artist Graham Fowler. 2022 Solo Exhibition, Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Relais San Clemente - Adelinda Allegretti Curator Pop-Up Gallery, Bosco, Perugia, Italy, July 13th - August 12th 2022 Solo Exhibition, Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Museo della Città in Palazzo Eroli, Narni UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF EMBASSY OF CANADA, April 9th-30th 2019 Solo Exhibition, Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF EMBASSY OF CANADA Adelinda Allegretti Curator Studio&Gallery, Gualdo Tadino, Umbria, Italy, October1st-31st 2017 Artifact Gallery, New York, New York 2014 Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2010 Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Ontario, Light and Colour in Landscapes 2005 Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta 2004 Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta 1999 Voss Folkehogskule Art Gallery, Voss, Norway 1997 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1997 Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta 1996 Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, first exhibit 1979 1992 Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, British Columbia 1991 Klonaridis Inc., Toronto, Ontario 1991 Elca London Gallery, Montreal, Quebec 1990 Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff Alberta 1989 Centre D’Art, Baie St. Paul, Québec Two Person Exhibitions: 2009 Working the Landscape, Two Views, with Catherine McAvity, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, May 9-21 2008 Canadian Landscapes, The Gallery on Cork Street, Canadian Landscapes, London, England, with Graham Fowler, February 4-16, 1996 International Summer Exhibition, Gruen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, with Graham Fowler, July Selected Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs: 2023 Terra! (Earth! ) Galleria Angelica (Piazza Navona), Rome, March 6th – 17th 2022 30th Year Anniversary Celebration,11,104 Days: From Artists to Zenith, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art Calgary, Alberta, November 24th 2022 Landscape (Inside and All Around Me) #3, International thematic group show, Museo Colle del Duomo, Viterbo, curated by Adelinda Allegretti, February 19th - March 5th 2022 Landscape (Inside and All Around Me) #2, International thematic group show, curated by Adelinda Allegretti, Carlo D'Orta, ArtStudio/Gallery, Roma, January 20th - February 10th 2021 Nataleinarte. Curator's Choice, International group show, Palazzo Franchi, Assisi (Perugia), Italy December 2nd - 19th 2020 The Land Imagined, Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Ontario 2020 In the Treasure Chest Again, Group show curated by Adelinda Allegretti, OBYART Studio Multifunzionale, Milano,Italy, February 1th-14th 2019 Unstoppable: A Women's Exhibition, Winchester Galleries, Victoria, British Columbia, April 2th – 27th 2018 Coast to Coast, Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Ontario, July 7th-27th 2017 Paesaggi, International thematic group show, Adelinda Allegretti, Curator Studio & Gallery, Gualdo Tadino, Umbria, Italy, October 4th-31st 2017 Architectural Digest Home Design Show, New York, Pier 92 & 94, Artifact Gallery Booth 519, March 16-19 2016-17 The Legacy Continues: Recent Additions to the Collection, October 21-January 29, Main Gallery, The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta 2016 Landscapes Exhibition: Cross Canada Scenes, Gevik Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, September 17-October 7 2016 Grand Budapest Art Show, Faur Zsofi Gallery, Budapest, August 1-14 , curated by Dino Marasa, Studio Byblos, Palermo, Italy 2016 The Biennale Riviera del Brenta, The Land of Canaletto, Villa Valier, Mira-Venice, Italy, curator F.S. Russo April 23-25 2016 Artexpo, New York, ART UpCLOSE booth 438.PIER, 94, New York, NY, April 14-17, www.artupclose.com 2016 Red Passion (Aspettando San Valentino - Waiting for Valentine's Day), curated by D.SSA Adelinda Allegretti Galerie des Carmes, 33, Rue des Polinaires, 31000 Toulouse, France, February 8-13 Website Publication for Red Passion: http://www.allegrettiarte.com/dett_mostre.asp?id=434 2015 Contemporary Paradise, exhibition in the event L’Isola che c’e, Palermo, Italy, Villa Castelnuovo October 15-18, curator Francesco Saverio Russo 2015 ART TAORMINA, July 10-19, Taormina, Italy, exhibition hall of Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, catalogue, International ward 2015 Art Shopping, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France, Booths B23-26, EA Editore, Effetto Art, June 12-14 2014 World Wide Art Books Inc. Gallery, International Contemporary Masters World Wide Art LA Art Fair, Los Angeles Convention Centre, Los Angeles, CA, October 16-19, 2014 The Art Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Monreale, Sicily, Tribute to Sicily,1st Award Trinacrea, March 15-31 2013 International Contemporary Masters 6/7,Southern Museum of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada,Sept. 25–Nov. 23 2013 Landscapes Cross Canada, Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Ontario, June 4–28 2013 Art for Large Places and Lofty Spaces, Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, June 1-30 2012-13 Celebrating 20 Years!, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Celebrating 20 Years! November 29–January 26 2012 Where It’s At, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. curated by Sandra Fraser 2011 Canadian Women Artists, Gallery Gevik Toronto, Ontario, April l9-May 5 2010-13 Art in Embassies Exhibition, March 5, 2010-2013, American Ambassador’s residence, Ottawa, Ontario 2007 Triangle Alumni 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York, September 28–October 20 Selected Public Collections: Alberta Art Foundation Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia Centre D’Art, Baie St. Paul, Québec Canadian Government Parliament Buildings Canadian Embassies: Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Civic Art Collection, Calgary, Alberta Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of Art, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C. Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton, Alberta Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, B.C. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario Saskatchewan Arts Board University of Alberta, Department of Medicine, Edmonton, Alberta University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask. Voss Folkehogskule, Voss, Norway Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta Saskatchewan Government Gifts: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother His Grace, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable, the Lord Archbishop
Artist Specialization: Perehudoff-Fowler's landscapes are alive with intimacy, capturing the prairie's vast expanses and immensity of the Rockies as a private experience for the viewer. A regular at the famous Emma Lake Workshops, Perehudoff has become a master at capturing the transient beauty of nature. From the open prairies and northern woods to quiet shores, she paints these scenes with soft yet densely applied brush strokes. "In her paintings of Saskatchewan, Catherine works principally with views of open prairies and the northern woods and lakes, subjects that first attracted the attention of artists beginning with the period of early exploration and settlement in the mid 19th. Century. By the late nineteen-seventies, a number of talented artists, including Catherine’s mother Dorothy Knowles and some time later Catherine and her sister Rebecca, began to establish a distinctive approach to western Canadian landscape that was no longer reliant upon conventions better suited to other circumstances. This approach was based upon a close, often intimate, reading of the prairie and Rocky Mountain environments, coupled with studies made from nature and the subsequent creation of relatively large works in the studio. In the process of this evolution, Catherine has developed a highly personal approach to her subjects that has brought her today to a position as one of the leading exponents of Canadian landscape painting." - Professor Keith Bell
