Let's have a serious morning where things make sense.

Visual perception of reality appears as a tightly, strung, thin plastic veil that struggles to contain within it energy and thrust. Like a plastic shopping bag, it appears thin in places, barely containing the force within it.

In my abstract works, selected parts of reality are rearranged according to their logic - Energy is allowed to leak through as objects' true nature comes into being and balance is achieved. My landscapes, with their extreme linear framework and heightened color, create tension like a balloon being blown up and about to pop.   

In this way, two seemingly opposed approaches share the same process.

Catherine Passante is a painter who has been many things. Hardware tech, web designer, video producer, waitress, mother, you get the idea. Primarily, she managed to work at all these things and maintain a consistent drive mentally that permeated throughout these endeavors – often to their betterment, sometimes to their disadvantage.

Nonetheless, for better or worse, Passante possesses an internal vision that is compelling and pervasive.  At this life stage, she is now able to externalize it in any form she chooses.

Passante lives in South Philly, though she is not a native. Originally from a small, strange town in North Jersey called Succasunna, she attended school at the Philadelphia College of Art, called University of the Arts back in the day of punk, big hair, and mayor Frank Rizzo.

She worked for a large architectural firm in a variety of positions for 28 years, the duties of which included graphic, web, and multimedia design for diverse clients in the cultural, healthcare and sports industries.

Back in the day, Passante was a founding member of Protean Artist's Cooperative and a member of Nexus Foundation for Today's Art.