Catherine Drabkin

Biography

Catherine Drabkin received a BFA from the Maryland Institute/College of Art and an MFA from Queens College/CUNY. She is a founding faculty member of the Delaware College of Art and Design, and other appointments include Dartmouth College, the University of Nebraska/Omaha, and Point Park University. Her painting is represented by Kraushaar Galleries. Other solo exhibitions include at the Members’ Gallery at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Delaware Division of the Arts Mezzanine Gallery; The McKinney Gallery, West Chester University; Marlboro College; and Dartmouth College. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Delaware Art Museum; the National Academy of Design; the Biggs Museum of American Art; the Delaware Art Museum; La Maison de la Bretagne; the Eleanor O. White Museum; the Attleboro Museum, Yale University, Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin, Boston University, The Painting Center, and New York University. Grants and residency fellowships include Buhl Foundation/ Sprout Fund One Northside, Pennsylvania Project Stream, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts. Examples of her work can be found in the Association des Petites Cités de Caractère de Bretagne; the Getty Trust; Dartmouth College, Washington University; and numerous private collections. Drabkin’s work was used for the cover of Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, by Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate (2004-2006). Other publications include American Painters in the Small Towns of Character in Brittany, introduction by Rene Le Bihan, Villes de Bretagne, Patrimoine et Histoire edited by Les Presses Universitaires de Rennes, and Kraushaar Galleries: Celebrating 125 Years by Betsy Fahlman. Her work has appeared in the set design of “Baby Mama”, a Universal Studios major motion picture, and has also been reproduced in The Artist and the American Landscape, by John Driscoll & Arnold Skolnick, as well as The New York Times, Art in America, The New York Observer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, American Artist Watercolor, and Art New England. Interviews have appeared in Ouest-France and on WHYY TV Delaware Today “Experience Delaware.”