On Saturday, September 13, 2025, Director Greg Flood held a gallery talk about Catherine Maize's paintings in her exhibition Recent Paintings, at Paul Thiebaud Gallery.
Artist Information
Long interested in depicting intimate moments, Catherine Maize has a national reputation for her small-scale still life paintings of flowers, food, and other objects. On panels that are less than a foot on a side, Maize employs color and delicate brush strokes to convey light, form, and atmosphere that dances between realism and abstraction. As she explains, “to me, the paintings are never about subject matter and that is a strict rule I follow. It is always about the composition, which means light, color, and form.” She also believes that edges and negative space are sacred. The results are paintings that offer respite and reflection from the noisy world we live in.
Catherine Maize studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, New York Studio School, and went on to earn both her BFA and MFA from Indiana University in Bloomington. Her works can be found in numerous private collections across the United States.