Fine Art nominee

Within Raising Goosebumps, curiosity and photography collide in an ongoing convoluted existence. The fleeting gifts and the inevitable failings intermingle over long days into a salty mix. The pictures are the antidote to the vast uncertainty of what is to come. Ideas emerge from unexpected places yielding escapes into the intangible. The viewer is invited into a vibrant visual encounter where one finds recognition in the emotions conjured. In Raising Goosebumps, one can transcend the barriers of consciousness to be re-immersed in imagination, wax with wonder, and float into chromatic whimsy.

Cate Wnek is a photographer, writer, and book artist based in Maine. Her writing and pictures have been published in Lemonade & Lenses, Click, One-Twenty-Five Magazine, and DPI Magazine. She has completed two workshops with Cig Harvey at Maine Media Workshops as well as a semester of the Maine Media MFA program in Photography. Her work has been selected for exhibition by the Curated Fridge twice as well as by PhotoPlace Gallery, where she received the Director’s award. She is a contributing photographer to Offset and Adobe Premium Stock. In 2015, she was named one of the Top 100 photographers to watch by Clicking Moms, and a Favorite Mom Photographer by mom.me. Born and raised in northern Virginia, she came to live in Maine for its mountains, oceans and love. Following a career on a global markets trading floor, she became hooked onto photography as a stay-at-home mother to two boys. She says, “the creative process is the means by which she processes the jagged journey of life and motherhood - the wondrous beauty and aching impermanence.”