“Catherine Bohrman’s compact abstractions in alabaster, bronze and marble possess soft edges that belie the magnitude of their density,” says Allen Hoffman, Legislative Liaison and Senior Program Associate for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

A resident of Connecticut for over twenty years Catherine now lives in Washington, DC and is active in both the New York and DC art markets. She also has a summer studio built in 1908 in Stockbridge, MA (which has been used by 3 generations of artists in her family). She was educated at Stanford University in California majoring in Mechanical Engineering.  She initially worked in the foreign manufacturing/design division of Mattel Toys in California until she moved to Greenwich, Connecticut and was introduced to stone sculpting in 1980. In 2000 she switched her medium to bronze using the lost wax process and sand casting methods. Her foundry is the Empire Bronze Foundry in Long Island City, NY. (The owner apprenticed at Roman Bronze Foundry in Queens, which in the early 1900’s was one of the few artist’s foundries in the US and did many pieces in DC including the Jefferson Memorial). Catherine is constantly developing her work. Focused on both small and large commissioned pieces, she is making the maquettes in her studio and having them enlarged, cast or fabricated and then installed on location.

She has won top awards in many juried shows and her work is in numerous private collections nationwide. Her public art commissions include a cast sculpture at Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., the Joan Scarangello Foundation To Conquer Lung Cancer Annual Award Trophy and the signature sculpture on the set of the former CNN program NewsNight with Aaron Brown.  There are also private commissions including a pending overseas public art project.

Her work has been in galleries throughout the Northeast and New York City where she has shown in SoHo, at Lincoln Center and at the Long Island City Contemporary Art Gallery.  Slides of her sculpture are in the Archives of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. She is a member and chairman on the board of The Foundry Gallery, the oldest co-op gallery in DC.  Catherine has lectured on stone sculpting at schools and professional organizations, teaching the history and techniques of sculpting. She is an Associate of the National Sculpture Society, in Who’s Who of American Women, a member of the Washington Sculptors Group, the Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. the Uncommon Chiselers (a group of noted women sculptors) and has been a member of four Connecticut art societies.  She is a life-member of both the National League of American Pen Women where she has served on the national and Connecticut local boards, and the Greenwich Art Society where she served as a vice-president on its board for 16 years. Catherine also volunteers as an information specialist at the Smithsonian Institutions’ Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporary Art, American Art And Portrait Gallery and Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.

Catherine L. Bohrman is the daughter of the late stained glass artisan, Frederick L. Leuchs of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, whose work is found at the Masonic Memorial and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, St. John the Divine, Carnegie Hall, Riverside Church, Picasso House and West Point in New York. She is a great niece of well-known sculptor Augustus Lukeman, best known for designing and carving the Confederate Generals on Stone Mountain in Atlanta, Georgia. She is married and has two children.