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 Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
2002 Palazzetto Cenci, Rhode Island School of Design - Rome, Italy: Summer Study Course
SELECTED SOLO EXBITIONS
2014-2021 SFMOMA Artist Gallery Collection, San Francisco, CA
2017 Neon Flora, Avenue 64, Emeryville, CA
2013 Daisy, Lululemon, Providence, RI
2012 Looking In, Open Artist Studio, East Providence, RI
2010 Beneath The Surface, Artist Alley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Every Room with a View, The Claremont, Berkeley, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 35th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
Juror’s Include: Rory Padeken, curator San Jose Museum of Art
2019 33rd Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2018 32nd Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2017 31st Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2016 30th 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”
Juror’s Include: Harel Kedem, Senior Critic for RISD
2010 24th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
Juror’s Include: Steve Pon of SF MOMA Artist Gallery; Mina Dresden of the Mina Dresden Gallery
2010 Mina Dresden Gallery - San Francisco, CA “One night Stand”
2009 23rd Emeryville Art Exhibition - Emeryville, CA
2008 One Night Stand, 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
Juror’s include: Maria Medua of SFMOMA Artist Gallery2006
2006 Woods Gerry Gallery - Providence, RI
2003 20th Emeryville Art Exhibition - Emeryville, CA
2000 17th Emeryville Art Exhibition - Emeryville, CA
Juror’s include: Andrea Voinot of SFMOMA 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