JUDITH STEWART

JUDITH STEWART

JUDITH STEWART

Judith Stewart has been a resident of the community of Rancho Linda Vista, in Oracle, Arizona, since arriving as a guest artist in 1991. At RLV she has a home and a studio, and the company of other residents – artists, kindred spirits, and parades of wildlife. Prior to discovering Oracle, she taught in the Art Department at the University of West Florida, in Pensacola. She has degrees in painting from Syracuse University, and the University of Illinois, in Urbana.

In 1990, after teaching in Florence, Italy, she was awarded an art grant from the State of Florida to return to Italy. Following that trip, her subject matter was increasingly influenced by the rich historical context of that country, and most importantly by the sculpture, ancient to contemporary, everywhere in evidence. The consequent next step was to begin interpreting her own ideas in sculptural form. She has been a sculptor since then, firing some pieces in clay and casting others in bronze.

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CHERYL ANN THOMAS

CHERYL ANN THOMAS

CHERYL ANN THOMAS

Cheryl Ann Thomas was born in Santa Monica, California and graduated from the Art Center College of Design with a BFA. Before practicing art full time in the late 1990s as a ceramic sculptor, Thomas worked as a grade school teacher. She lives and works in Ventura, California.

Thomas creates her elegant, intricate works using the age-old coiling technique. Unlike other sculptors who integrate the coils to create a smooth surface, Thomas retains the integrity of each thin, serpentine coil and the imprint of her hand, giving the works their textured surfaces. She creates tall cylinders of thin, coiled porcelain that when fired, collapse and fold in on themselves. Chance and unpredictability dictate the process. “I pinch the coils together but don’t use anything to really make them stick. The coils interact with each other in the kiln and fold or break. They’re perfectly symmetrical when I put them in,” Thomas says. Sometimes she combines these accidental forms to create a new piece for a second or multiple firings. Her practice is inquiry based in that she begins with a question, much like a scientist would begin with a hypothesis, and then experiments in the studio. This intuitive, organic approach to making imitates processes in the natural world. “The fact that it’s built up coil by coil,” Thomas says, “that’s the way a lot of things in nature grow.” Her works gain their subtle hues through oxides like manganese, black iron, and cobalt – “the same things that color stones,” Thomas says.

The textures of her sculptures not only echo textiles, frayed or splitting at the seams, but also natural elements like dried corn husks or peeled tree bark. Their slumped shapes call to mind both abandonment and repositories. Thomas says that her works, which she calls relics or artifacts, “are the remains of human intervention. These sculptures form a permanent record of my interaction with the material.” She says she “invites the physics of failure during the firing.” The works in both their form and content remain open ended and continuous. Drawn to silence, sensuality, chance, and loss, she developed a process that enfolds these elements into a distinct experience of creation and destruction.

Thomas has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe. Numerous collecting institutions hold her work in their permanent collections such as the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Fuller Craft Museum, among others. Her work was recently featured in Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay at the Craft and Folk Museum which highlighted ceramicists for their experimental manipulations of clay to expand the technical, aesthetic, and metaphoric potential of the medium.

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LAURA TRUITT

LAURA TRUITT

LAURA TRUITT

 

Much of my work has to do with perspective. Linear perspective, surely, but also our emotional and collective perspective of landscape and personal space. The underlying conflict in my work is generated by climate change, land abuse and over consumption of all kinds, my own included. The borders and edges of images and objects illuminate barriers as well as showing us current paths of entry.

Laura Carpenter Truitt

Laura Truitt is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Oberlin College and lives and works in Ohio. In addition to completing her MFA in painting at Colorado State University Laura studied painting and drawing at Goucher College, the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Vermont Studio Center and the Chicago Art Institute. Truitt is represented by the William Havu Gallery in Denver and has shown her work nationally including the Jundt Art Museum in Spokane, the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, The Painting Center in New York, the Arvada Center in Colorado, Coker College in South Carolina, Wabash College in Indiana and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. She has been a featured artist in Ruminate Magazine, and her work was published in Manifest Gallery’s INPA 7 Painting Annual.

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LAURA WAIT

LAURA WAIT

LAURA WAIT

My current work is inspired by symbolism and handwriting along with paleography, the study of historical letterforms. I paint largely in acrylic on paper, canvas, and panels, using abstractions of calligraphic forms.

Environment, words, calligraphy, celestial movements, time, symbols, history, music, elemental energy are some of the many influences on my artwork.  While it appears, I am simply an abstract painter using letterforms, there are meanings in the Nimbus series as well as the other paintings presented. I don’t offer simple explanations for my markings; understanding often must be intuited.

My process is intuitive, and many layers are necessary to reach the final vision that I thought I was following. It is done when it is done. If I have a feeling of euphoria, then I am thrilled. 

Born in Canada, I grew up in Boulder, Colorado since the age of 1 1/2. I was surrounded by scientists growing up, but spent much of my time making pottery, and eventually painting, printmaking, and welding sculpture in high school. We traveled the American west. My early work was landscape based, and I made a lot of drawings while in the car (not driving) as it was a primary way I saw the world.

I have been a printmaker, a book artist, a bookbinder and conservator with degrees in Art History from Barnard College, NY, 1975, Croydon College of Art in Printmaking, 1977, as well as Bookbinding, 1981. Since 1981, I have lived in Denver, Steamboat Springs, and Santa Fe, NM since 2013.

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DAVID WARNER

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