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Catherine Howe is a painter living and working in New York.

Howe first came to notice in 1990 as one of a group of small artists determined to address and paint the figure. Her recent work continues to explore a form of portraiture to readdress contemporary notions of beauty and the myth of the 'female as goddess.' In his 2008 article for Art in America, Edward Leffingwell addresses Howe's use of painterly techniques to suggest a lush revamping of mythology and iconography, "Howe also celebrates the bravura hand,combining Tiepolo skies and Gainsborough landscapes with somewhat voluptuous figures of an allegorical or mythological sort." Ms. Howe reanimates the historical “feminine figure” with a new sense of self and willingly interprets or misinterprets historical and allegorical references at will to create her own contemporary meaning.