NAOMI SCHECK

NAOMI SCHECK

NAOMI SCHECK

Naomi Scheck’s studio practice is influenced by the struggle of existence within the natural world. Her dimensional drawings address themes of time, vulnerability, and transformation. Scheck works primarily with water-based paints and inks on synthetic paper or board. Her pieces are gradually developed through a process that includes repetitive staining, cutting, mark making, painting, and the use of additive/subtractive processes. Due to the time intensive and meticulous nature of her practice, Scheck produces a small body of work annually.

Scheck received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Denver in 2006 and her MFA in Drawing from Colorado State University in 2013. Scheck currently lives and works in Denver, CO.

“My artwork has largely been influenced by my understanding of the natural world as being in constant flux. Through my drawings I explore natural life processes that are both beautiful and destructive, addressing growth and decay. I seek to present a visual and sensory experience that generates emotions of awe and imagination, but also challenges and confronts idealized views about life and natural processes.

My drawings work on a microscopic and macroscopic scale, which addresses relationships between intimacy and distance. I work with fine detail on large pieces of paper, so the drawings are viewed both from up close and from afar. At a distance the drawings look like organic formations or topographies, but up close, the detail and volume of marks become prominent. The various elements of the drawings work together to create the feeling of an amorphous entity in the midst of uncertainty and change.”

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SAM SCOTT

SAM SCOTT

SAM SCOTT

Painter Sam Scott is known internationally for his monumental abstract oil paintings collected in the US and Europe. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum presents an installation of twenty surprisingly small watercolors, studies of light and color, painted during August of 2016. Inspired by the same high desert terrain of New Mexico that captivated Georgia O’Keeffe, Scott created the sequence in vibrant hues that reverberate with the passion and energy of O’Keeffe’s landscapes while reflecting his distinct artistic sensibility.

Scott has lived and worked in Santa Fe since 1969. His work has been the focus of local exhibitions at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Sam Scott: An American Voice, 1967-1997, and the Center for Contemporary Arts, Messages from the Wounded Healers. His artwork was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial. He has been recognized for his work by the French government with awards and exhibitions. He earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where his teachers included abstract painters Philip Guston and Clyfford Still, among others.

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RALPH STEADMAN

RALPH STEADMAN

RALPH STEADMAN

Ralph Steadman was born in 1936. He started as a cartoonist and through the years diversified into many fields of creativity. He has illustrated such classics as Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island and Animal Farm.

His own books include the lives of Sigmund Freud and Leonardo da Vinci and The Big I Am, the story of God. With American writer Hunter S. Thompson he collaborated in the birth of GONZO journalism, the definitive book in the genre being Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was made into a feature film. He is also a printmaker. His prints include a series of etchings on writers from William Shakespeare to William Burroughs.

In 1989 he wrote the libretto for an eco-oratorio called “Plague and the Moonflower” which has been performed in five cathedrals in the UK and was the subject of a BBC 2 film in 1994. He has traveled the world’s vineyards and distilleries for Oddbins, which culminated in his two prize-winning books, The Grapes of Ralph and Still Life With Bottle. He has an Honorary D. Litt from the University of Kent.

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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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CURT SULLAN

CURT SULLAN

CURT SULLAN

Curt Sulland was born in Florida and soon moved to Chicago where he was raised. Having a great interest in art from an early age, Curt went to work at the National Zoo in Washington DC as a graphic artist for several years. Curt then pursued a career in construction law and also has been focused on creating sculptures of glass and steel since 2000.
 
“My sculptures are an amalgamation of many different concepts including constructivism, modernism, brutalism, contemporary, as well as minimalism. I desire to use elements that have not been combined before in a particular manner. My father was a Chicago architect and architectural elements still  significantly influence me. Steel and glass are a tribute to humankind’s urban accomplishments. I search for handsome beauty which respects the past but creates unexplored results.  I seek to produce meditative pieces that can be as engaging as watching a fire, the birthplace of both glass and steel.”
 
 

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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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