![]() ![]() For me as a young girl, watching my mom do this was intoxicating. He ended up dying alone in a hospice in the Bronx. I would sit there with Gregory Hines tap dancing, Phyllis Hyman singing, Judith Jamison dancing, and I’m like, “What the fuck is this?!” I watched my mother pull it all together while my father never recovered. WESTERGAARD: Yeah, she raised all the money for her first show in our living room. YOUNG: When did you start to feel like you were an artist, or become attracted to visual aspects in the world around you? Did your mom going into theater inspire you? She put together Sophisticated Ladies, her first show, and it was a huge success. But my mom went out and somehow convinced the Ellington family to give her the rights to his music and life. I remember coming home and seeing the eviction notice. WESTERGAARD: When the stock market crashed, we went from a townhouse and going to school in a limo to nine of us in a one-bedroom apartment. YOUNG: Your mom worked on Broadway how did that happen? My grandmother was a heavy pill popper and my father came from a long line of men who committed suicide, so there was this whole concept that if he ever got past 50, we were lucky. I grew up on 82nd, we had a huge townhouse and a very political but also finance-y dad who made tons of money. I’d like to hear how your experience growing up here shaped you?ĬATHRINE WESTERGAARD: I don’t have the downtown story. ROYAL YOUNG: I love that you’re a native New Yorker, like me. We spoke with Westergaard about tap dancing, spirituality, starvation, journaling, unconventional fashion, and her lush vision of true beauty. For her latest show at C24, “Kevin Loves Cathrine,” Westergaard has collaborated with artist Kevin Marcell to create bold, brave, iconic pop portraits. Her sumptuously stylized images are triumphant, a tribute to female empowerment and sensuality-with a drama inspired by her mother’s theatrical sensibilities, as well as an underlying darkness. She began as a fine artist, but soon abandoned this for photography. ![]() Westergaard was haunted by a need to explain the often sad world she saw around her.Ĭoming to terms with her artistic talents has been its own struggle. ![]() But beneath the Park Avenue veneer lay addiction, depression, and a constant search for inspiration. Her mother was a Broadway producer best known for the Tony Award-winning Sophisticated Ladies. Perhaps this comes from Westergaard’s unconventional Upper East Side upbringing. The New York native creates fashion images with force there is a depth and passion in her pictures that goes beyond the beautiful women she is most obsessed with capturing. Voluptuous, vibrant, and searing with sexy energy, Cathrine Westergaard’s photographs are poised pop. ![]()
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