Wherever you may be, welcome to this home for art!

Posted on January 31, 2026 by CatRutgers4Art

“Universal Dignity” (above) & “Once Upon a Time in the Neighborhood”
© Catherine Rutgers 2026

One human person, I make art with light and time, my eyes and hands. Reflecting the nearby tangible world. The things we see and those we imagine. In the street, the garden, the sky, the air. Assembling and arranging mere pixels onscreen. Searching for those moments when a tender yet ecstatic satisfaction appears and takes hold. This page is just the most recent beginning. You are invited to enter here and explore. Love, Cat

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Fulgurite Muse (Wordless No. 14 of 14)

Posted on March 20, 2025 by CatRutgers4Art

01 Ritually Lit (Image 0620), 02 Cold War Remnant (Image 2200), 03 The Harbor Lights (Image 0160), 04 8th Avenue Arty Party Salon (2001), 05 Innerspace Globe, 06 Vibrating Colors, 07 Garden Path in the Night (Image 2863), 08 Another Sign of the Vibrating Colors • © Catherine Rutgers 2025

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Deep and fresh …

Posted on January 16, 2025 by CatRutgers4Art

“Quest” © Catherine Rutgers, January 2025

I’m on a perpetual mission. In love with the physical world and with transporting color, form, thought to the screen. CatRutgers4Art traverses fifteen years of experiments. All rooted in my own experience, my own painting, drawing, collage, photographs, scans. The things touched in the garden, the studio, and the things we feel but can never hold in our hands, the sky, the air, the pixels assembled and reassembled in a potent conundrum of bliss. With wonder, with love, Cat

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Too Tender, Too Tough

Posted on November 16, 2024 by CatRutgers4Art

Emergent Resurgence ~ The dark hill’s proper name is loma prieta, the earthquake captured my attention.

The Bright Idea ~ The currently untraceable and somehow attendant list seemed to be lyrical, momentous …

Littlebird … angels, kitchen landscapes, nerves …

Too Tender, Too Tough … dying butterflies, woman, found object …

Stoned Moon Trail (Earth Quakes) … office procedures, flamingos, dreambirds, birth day.

Sanctified ~ Yet the water keeps falling, the sky behind it is pale blue, the clouds are distinct, puffy. The dogwalker is laughing, taking pictures. I am standing in the raindrops.

… Fading into You …
• One human person, making art. © Catherine Rutgers 2024

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Scanning this restless season

Posted on September 30, 2024 by CatRutgers4Art

The rainy-gray end-of-September days held a hovering heartache. Made me edgy. Nostalgic. Surprised when twilight comes so soon. Wondering if I took full advantage of the glorious summer.

Prowling deep through the archives, my attention was snagged by six raw scans. They’re from 2002, the last day of October through the fifth of November. Paint on paper, silkscreen on paper, paper glued onto paper, and a sapphire-toned CD. On Friday, September 27, 2024, their new forms came swiftly, one after the other. Now they’re ready. Here we go!

Secretive Plume copyright Catherine Rutgers 2024Breakout Role copyright Catherine Rutgers 2024leated Emotion copyright Catherine Rutgers 2024Scenic Overlook copyright Catherine Rutgers 2024Clearance Sail (Tender Wash) copyright Catherine Rutgers 2024Blue Streak Oranged-Up copyright Catherine Rutgers 2024Time Warped copyright Catherine Rutgers 2024

01 Splash!, 02 Secretive Plume, 03 Breakout Role, 04 Pleated Emotion, 05 Scenic Overlook, 06 Clearance Sail (Tender Wash), 07 Blue Streak Oranged-Up, 08 Time Warped © Catherine Rutgers 2024

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