Catherine Puccio Bio

Catherine Puccio first fell in love with oil painting in the traditional
manner as a student in the Young People’s Class at the Ridgewood Art Institute, in Ridgewood, NJ, under the painter and teacher Ethel Quardt. She has since studied with Arthur Maynard and Betty Kaytes, as well as—most recently—with John Phillip Osborne and Danielle Wexler.

Catherine continues the family tradition of teaching painting at the
Ridgewood Art Institute. Her mother, painter Katherine Lewis, taught at the Barn for 20 years.

Ms. Puccio received the Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Williams College and the Master’s Degree in Art and Education from the University of Bridgeport. She taught elementary and middle school art in Massachusetts and Connecticut for 15 years.

Catherine’s love for animals, in conjunction with her pursuit of truth in
nature, has brought a human and oftentimes humorous quality to her
animal portraits. She strives for that same vibrant connection in her still life paintings and landscape works.

Her work has been shown recently at the Ridgewood Art Institute’s
Annual Regional Open Juried Show, which she has chaired for the past two years, the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society Juried Show in Old Lyme, CT, and the Hudson Valley Art Association’s 76th Annual
Exhibition. She is a member of Plein Air Painters of the New Jersey
Highlands, the Lyme Art Association, and the Ridgewood Art Institute.

Her paintings have been exhibited at Francesca Anderson Fine Art in
Lexington, Ma, Village Artworks Gallery in Lahaska, Pa, and Port of Call Gallery in Warwick, NY.

Ms. Puccio’s animal portraits have received national recognition in the
Art Show at the Dog Show in Wichita, Kansas, and have been on display in numerous shows as well as Boxers Restaurants in Manhattan. Her paintings are in many collections in the New England and Tri-State areas, as well as in Pennsylvania.