Caitlin Coreris makes large multilayered oil paintings with fluid transparent underlying washes overlayed with meticulous forms in vivid colors. Her dynamic paintings are evolving in the direction of flow and structure and are rooted in themes of intangible elements and the tangible world. In her abstract scenes, music and architecture or flow and structure are in dialogue. The relationship between the tangible and abstract avoid a straightforward reading. Her work has an interrelationship between painting, music and architecture. Music creates a mood or a tone that you feel much like the unsayable in painting. The forms in her paintings evolve from linear to soft shapes and curvilinear forms. Her palette juxtapose colors of various density and temperature.
She also draws on historical and present-day influences from Hilma af Klint, Joan Miro, Matisse, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell to contemporary painter Claire Tabouret .
Raised in the Bay Area, California Caitlin earned a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her paintings have been in the collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Artist’s Gallery.
EDUCATION
2006 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Painting Major
2005 Laguna College of Art and Design: Semester of Study
2002 Palazzetto Cenci, Rhode Island School of Design - Rome, Italy: Summer Study Course
SELECTED SOLO EXBITIONS
2014-21 SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Avenue 64, Emeryville, CA
2013 Lululemon, Providence, RI
2012 Lululemon, Providence, RI
2012 Open Artist Studio, East Providence, RI
2010 The Artist Alley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 The Claremont, Berkeley, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 35th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2019 Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2018 Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2017 Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2016 Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2015 29th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2014 28th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2011 Chabot Gallery, Providence, RI “Creating Energy”
Jurors: Harel Kedem, Senior Critic for RISD; and, Del-Bouree Bach
2010 24th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
Jurors: Steve Pon of SF MOMA Artist Gallery; Mina Dresden of the Mina Dresden Gallery
2010 Mina Dresden Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2009 23rd Emeryville Art Exhibition - Emeryville, CA
2008 Mina Dresden Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2008 Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA,“RISD California Alumni Biennial”
Juror: Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator Oakland Museum of California
2007 22nd Emeryville Art Exhibition - Emeryville, CA
Jurors: Svea Lin Vezzone of Swarm Gallery; Maria Medua of SF MOMA Artist Gallery2006
2006 Woods Gerry Gallery - Providence, RI
2003 20th Emeryville Art Exhibition - Emeryville, CA
2000 17th Emeryville Art Exhibition - Emeryville, CA
Jurors: Robbin Henderson of the Berkeley Art Center; Andrea Voinot of SF MOMA Artists Gallery
2002 Textile Gallery, Korea,“Pagaji and Beyond Exhibition”
GRANTS
2016 Emeryville, CA Bus Shelter Public Art Program
HONORS
2011
Caitlin’s Art Studio - International Competition “Creating Energy” - Providence, RI