Catherine Woskow (born in Ukiah, California) is a contemporary painter whose work merges abstraction, figurative expression, and deep emotional inquiry. She studied art at Bradford Liberal Arts College in Massachusetts, Sonoma State University in California, and graduated from the Koningkijke Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving in the Netherlands, where her studies expanded both her technical range and conceptual perspective. Woskow’s artistic journey has been marked by curiosity and evolution. Early in her career she explored minimal abstraction, gradually integrating aspects of the human figure into her visual language. A significant moment came in 2006 when she received the LB Research and Education Foundation Grant, enabling an extended period of experimentation that brought abstraction and figuration together in new ways. Her work is driven by a process of discovery — balancing intuition with intentionality, and allowing layered paint and media to reveal hidden forms and emotional complexity. From her Vertical Series to the more recent Head Series, Woskow’s compositions investigate identity, thought, and the interplay between body and mind. In the Head Series, for example, multiple overlapping forms suggest the complexity and contradictions of inner life, shaped through acrylics, glazes, and mixed media. Woskow has exhibited widely across the United States, including solo shows at galleries such as Vorres Gallery in San Francisco and Davis and Cline Gallery in Ashland, Oregon, as well as museum exhibitions at the Grace Carpenter Hudson Museum in Ukiah, California. Her work is represented in private and public collections in the U.S. and internationally. Throughout her career, Woskow has continued to expand her artistic vocabulary, creating large-scale mixed media paintings that reflect both emotional depth and formal exploration. Her art invites viewers to engage with the unseen layers of experience and perception that shape our understanding of self and world.