Cat Wondergem has known she wanted to spend her life creating visual works since her first art classes in middle school with beloved teacher, Gee Fruit. She studied art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and has gone on to have various jobs doing glass work, fine jewelry, silk dyeing, and custom pewter work. When she moved from the mountains of Asheville, NC to the Lowcountry of SC in 2005, her work made the natural transition, as well. The tradition of fine craft that is so prevalent in the Appalachian area was replaced with gyotaku (Japanese fish printing). She has been pursuing some form of printmaking ever since. Her current obsession is linocut block prints, that she enhances with watercolor.
Cat has spent the last 2.5 decades exhibiting her work at various galleries and outdoor art shows, largely in the Southeast. She is extremely grateful that she gets to make a life playing with color, shape, and movement.
Linocut relief print done in oil-based ink on paper. Enhanced with watercolor. Small editions signed and numbered.
© 2016 Franklin G. Burroughs • Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
Myrtle Beach’s Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum strives to be one of the finest visual arts museums in the Carolinas. With 11 galleries that change throughout the year, Myrtle Beach’s only art museum offers exhibitions featuring paintings, textiles, sculpture, photography, video, ceramics, assemblage, collage and more. A visit to the Art Museum’s exhibitions can be enhanced by its lively programming, including artist receptions, tours, lectures, workshops and classes for both adults and children.