The Art & Photography of Catherine Kirkpatrick



I do freelance writing, editing and graphics. In 2014, I wrote the introduction for Meryl Meisler's book A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick which was featured on NewYorkTimes.com and NewYorker.com ("Meryl Meisler’s Disco Era"). In 2015, I wrote the intro for her second book, Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy '70s Suburbia & the City which was also featured on NewYorker.com ("Seventies Long Island: The Whole Mishpocha"), where unbelievably, I was quoted a second time. To see all the great press for these books, visit MerylMeisler.com. I just finished an essay for the catalog for the Trill Matrix exhibit at the Clemente Art Center in Manhattan.

I have created presentations for Citibank, the Ford Foundation and Applied Semiconductor, and written many articles for Professional Women Photographers. One of these, Sgt. Pepper Uncovered, was named by industry giant PhotoShelter to its list of Top Photography Blog Posts of 2011. In 2012, I created 30 by 30, a blog series for Women's History Month. In it thirty women photographers spoke about the women photographers who inspired them. Interviewees included esteemed critic Vicki Goldberg, triple Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times photographer Ruth Fremson, and Carnegie Hall legend Editta Sherman. (Please note that in the migration to a new website, many lost their original formatting and picked up a few strange characters.) I was also a contributing editor to Imprints magazine.

I'm currently a contributing writer/photographer to ArtSpiel.org:

Surface and Sky: Jeffrey Morabito at SFA Projects

BOS Spotlight: Yolande Heignen

Artist Without Borders: Catching Up With Jackie Neale

A Visit With Nancy Baker

1947, Simone de Beauvoir in America

A Visit With Jaynie Crimmins

A Visit With Linda Schmidt

Catching Up With Meryl Meisler

I've also written articles for Arts in Bushwick, including Manic Need and Human Preserverance: A Photographer Looks Back, Many Roads to Here: The Art of Kyle Mumford, and The Journey and Art of Scott Dennis.

Here are links to various articles:

Zeke Berman: Thoughts and Pictures at an Exhibition

Fire, Ashes, Fear: Bushwick in the 1980s by Meryl Meisler

Dark Legacy, Points of Light: Photographers and Newtown Creek

Of Myth and Men: The Photography of Dianora Niccolini

Fabulous! Flo Fox at PWP

The Fine Art of Personality

Sgt. Pepper Uncovered

Sid Kaplan: Scenes of the Unfolding City

Out There in the Fields

A Peek At Claudia Kunin

Cards and Letters: A Snapshot

A Desk(top) of Our Own

BOV: The Life, An Appreciation of Dannielle Hayes

PWP WIN Mentoring Program

(and more...visit www.pwponline.org/blog and search for "Kirkpatrick")

Catherine Kirkpatrick Photo Blogs