Cat Mailloux (she/her) (b. 1991, MN)

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Cat Mailloux is an artist and educator based in Columbus, OH.

In a cross-disciplinary practice, Mailloux’s work reaches across drawing, textiles and language to explore the spiritual and the material. Of late, her textile practice is focused in quilt making, pursuing connections between the visual language of churches, cathedrals, and domestic spaces that slowly bleed their way into imagined and limitless landscapes, exploring questions of the infinite through material.

Her quilts are layered and labored drawings in found color and material. They are made from old and thrifted clothing, mostly worn denim, that carry the faint memory of the bodies that wore them. The making of a quilt is grounded in a logic, bound and subject to invisible, omniscient rules of how things must fit together. The image is embedded within the material; the quilt is both composition and architecture.

Mailloux is currently based in Columbus, OH, and serves as an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Cedarville University. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Ohio State University and a BFA in Sculpture and Art Education from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Her visual work has been exhibited in galleries across the country including Women Made Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, Skylab Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, and Coram Deo Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. She has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Centers, The Columbus Printed Arts Center, and Mary Sky.