About the artist
A Buffalo, New York native, Catherine has spent much of her life crisscrossing the United States and abroad, chasing the creative muse while leaving a trail of travel inspired art along the way.
Massaro is a multimedia artist working in a variety of mediums which include oils, watercolors, pastels, printmaking, monoprints, collage, assemblage, digital photography, jewelry, and wearable art.
After living in ten different states, a stint on a 35 foot catamaran, and a career in product development and creative director, she finally landed in the hill country of Texas and opened her first gallery in 2018 , STUDIO MASSARO, in Johnson City, Texas while living in and renovating an historic home in Fredericksburg, Texas. STUDIO MASSARO the gallery, relocated to Fredericksburg, but closed a year later during Covid.
STUDIO MASSARO is now Catherine’s home studio on the grounds of her property in Fredericksburg, Texas where she is happy to see clients by appointment.
Catherine prefers to be immersed in a large body of work that provides for in depth exploration of a subject, ultimately having enough work for one-woman show every 2–4 years.
“The first 25 years of my artistic path I defined myself primarily as a painter while working in oils, watercolor and pastels. It was not until I was in my 50’s that I had a bit of an epiphany as an artist and got off the easel and created an entire body of work on the floor with rags and stencils. After that body of work I suddenly felt free to explore art in any direction my imagination took me, and has led me into defining myself as a multimedia artist.
I currently work in a variety of media and processes. Collage, assemblage, photography, oil painting, monoprints, pastel, watercolor… it’s all fair game and my creative playground now.
Plein air painting has always been part of my painting repertoire as I believe both drawing and painting from life so very important for artists at all ages. Experimentation, and exploration have become key to what inspires my next body of work, and I have come to include all these different media in my shows. A representational painting will be interpreted into an abstract collage, then into an assemblage, and all three of them inspired by my photograph.
The exploration of an image or an idea into a variety of media and processes is a deep dive into art and a way of working that I have come to embrace.”
~Catherine Massaro
Catherine Massaro has been exhibiting her contemporary mixed media art in galleries and shows across
the United States for over 40 years. Her work is in both public and private collections.
Represented By
STUDIO MASSARO
Fredericksburg, Texas
(previously with)
Gallery A – Taos, N.M.
Wilde Meyer Gallery – Scottsdale, AZ
SOLO EXHIBITION
FAMILY ALBUM
Avila College, Kansas City, MO. 1984
INTERIORS
Tippets Gallery, Utah State University, UT 1993
DOGSCAPES
Studio Massaro, Arroyo Hondo, N.M. 2004
DOGSCAPES
APEX GALLERY, South Dakota
School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, S.D. 2005
MEDITATIONS on the HILL COUNTRY
Kerr Arts & Cultural Center, Avery Gallery
Kerrville, TX. 2007
THE ESCAPE ARTIST
Schreiner University
Kerrville, TX. 2010
THESE FOOLISH THINGS
Kerr Arts & Cultural Center
Kerrville, TX 2015
DUTIES of the MOON
Studio Massaro (in ECHO)
Johnson City, TX 2117
TOTALITY
Studio Massaro the gallery
Johnson City, TX 2017
THE INTENTIONAL EYE
Studio Massaro the gallery
Johnson City, TX 2018
THE RED SHOW
Studio Massaro the gallery
Fredericksburg, TX 2020
ALL THOSE WHO WANDER
Kerr Arts & Cultural Center
Kerrville,TX 2023
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS & JURIED EXHIBITIONS
ANIMAL DREAMS
APEX Gallery, South Dakota
Schools of Mines & Technology S.D. 2001
SOUTHWEST ART MAGAZINE Presents ARTISTS TO WATCH -2002
SOUTHWEST ART at THE DEPOT
Steamboat Springs, CO. 2003
ARTISTS WHO HAPPEN TO BE WOMEN
Wayne Stark University Center
Galleries at Texas A&M University, TX 2004
TOPANGA CANYON GALLERY
Open Juried Show
Topanga Canyon, CA 2004
DOG DAYS
1550 Gallery, Kerrville, TX 2005
IMAGES 2006
Kerr Arts & Cultural Center
Kerrville, TX 2006
Hill Country Arts Foundation
25th Annual Juried Exhibition
Ingram, TX 1st Place – cash award 2006
AMERICA JURIED ART SALON
2006 & 2007 Award of merit - cash award
Johnson Creek Press Members Show
Hill Country Arts Foundation
Ingram, TX 2007 & 2008
Hill Country Arts Foundation
Members Show
Ingram, TX 1st Prize - cash award 20120
PRIVATE LIVES
Hill Country Arts Foundation Invitational - Ingram, TX 2020
CREATED DURING COVID
Kerr Arts & Cultural Center, Kerrville, TX 2020
EDUCATION
KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE
Kansas City, MO
Bachelor of Fine Art- BFA painting and printmaking - 1979
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
Logan, UT
Master of Art – MA - 1988
WORK EXPERIENCE
Creative Product Designer
Hallmark Cards, KC, MO
Product Development Manager
Twincraft , Burlington , VT
Freelance Art Director
Current, INC., Colorado Springs, CO
Product Development Director
Creative Bath, NY. NY
Pastry Chef
Le Metro, Buffalo, N.Y.
