edwardcating
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Location | North Adams, MA, United States |
| Introduction | Edward Cating is a realist painter specializing in landscape, portraiture, and still life. His work has been included in two Berkshire Biennials, numerous group shows in Boston, and in group and solo shows at The Harrison Gallery, to name a few. Cating’s paintings may be seen in galleries, cafes, and restaurants in the Berkshires, Southern Vermont, and New Yorks’s Hudson Valley. Most of the newer work is available for purchase from his Etsy store. “I am fascinated by the relationship of paint to its ground, restricted values, and, increasingly, in a restricted palette. The fact that human minds so readily translate the language of paint and marks into visual images that result in a sense of ‘realism’ fascinates me and informs all my choices.” — Edward Cating Cating holds a BFA in Theatre from Southwestern University and a Studio Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (‘02). |
| Interests | art, theatre, writing, reading, motorcycling, bicycling, photography, archery, hunting, skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, carpentry/woodwork, being sedentary... |
| Favorite movies | Dr. Strangelove, Dead Ringers, Giant, Carousel, Being There, Fitzcarraldo, On the Waterfront, Citizen Kane, The 7th Seal, Baby Doll, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, L.A Confidential, Babe, State and Main, Night of the Hunter, After Hours, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, The Cowboys, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barry Lyndon, Auntie Mame, Suddenly Last Summer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Brown Bunny, Fight Club, Das Boat, In Cold Blood, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Shortbus, The Thin Man, Laura, Adaptation, The Big Sleep, The Big Lebowski, The Battleship Potemkin, Singin' in the Rain, A Woman Under the Influence, Altered States, The Graduate, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Little Big Man, Boogie Nights, Frequency, Big Fish, Casino, Valley of the Dolls, Young Frankenstein, Casablanca, The African Queen, Battle of Algiers, Dangerous Liaisons, Breaker Morant, Blazing Saddles, The Milagro Beanfield War, Henry, American Beauty, A Mighty Wind, House of Spirits, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, MASH, An American in Paris, Opening Night, The Big Easy, A Clockwork Orange, Body Heat, The Pink Panther, Taxi Driver, Lolita, Raging Bull, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Grifters, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Last Picture Show, Nashville, Capote, Stand By Me, The Shining, Rosemary's Baby, The Man Who Would Be King, The Thing Called Love, The Rounders, True Grit, The Man from Snowy River, The Kingfisher, Eraserhead, Blood Simple, Fargo, Scarface, Leaving Las Vegas, Heathers, Atlantic City |
| Favorite music | The Doors, Elliott Smith, 13th Floor Elevators, Jeff Buckley, Lucinda Williams, Wildcatting, Radiohead, The Shins, Dandy Warhols, Roy Orbison, David Bowie, Van Morrison, The White Stripes, Humbert, Sublime, Velvet Underground, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, Get Hustle, The Who, Head Like a Kite, Lead Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, The Cardigans, The Beatles, The Stones, Dylan, B.B. King, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Annie Lennox, Pink Floyd, Sinead O'Connor, Steely Dan, Patsy Kline, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Sarah Vaughn, Merle Haggard, Duke Ellington, Doc Watson, Ray Charles, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Neil Young, CSN&Y, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, REM, Paul Simon, The Cars, Eurythmics, Tourists, Tom Petty, Jerry Jeff Walker, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bobby McFerrin, The Clash, Carroll King, Natalie Merchant, Joe Ely, Credence Clear Water Revival, The Eagles, Don McLean, Jefferson Airplane, Delbert McClinton, John Hiatt, Led Zeppelin, ELP, Conway Twitty, Faron Young, The Guess Who, The Pretenders, Joan Jett, Patty Larkin, Bonnie Rait, Leo Kotke, The Smiths |
| Favorite books | Foucault's Pendulum, Embers, Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges), Sometimes A Great Notion, On the Road, Moby Dick, Two Years Before the Mast, Bag of Bones, East of Eden, The Power Broker, The Path to Power (Parts I-IV), The Physician, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, The Once and Future King, The Pillars of the Earth, To Kill a Mockingbird, Possession, The Secret History, Watership Down, Lonesome Dove, Stranger in A Strange Land, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fear and Loating in Las Vegas, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, A Boy and His Dog, Steppenwolf, In Cold Blood, Bonfire of the Vanities, White Orchid, Interview with the Vampire, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Historian, Shop Girl, The Hobbitt, My Side of the Mountain, A Wrinkle in Time, Robin Hood, The Swiss Family Robinson, Call of the Wild, North by Northwest, War of the Worlds, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Innocents Abroad, [Martin Amos], [Papa Hemingway], [Faulkner], [Vonnegut], [Shakespeare], [O'Neil]... |