Seattle Art Fair Booth A16 Stewart Gallery and Monte Azul
SEATTLE ART FAIR
STEWART GALLERY - MONTE AZUL BOOTH
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FAIR 2024 IS OUR FIRST JOINT VENTURE INTO THE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR PLATFORM.
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MOMENTOUS EVENT, WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE RECIPIENTS OF THE JOE AND MERIT AND THE MONTE AZUL INAUGURAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD WILL BE PUBLISHED DURING FAIR 2024. THE FORMER AWARDED BY AN ANONYMOUS JURY OF PEERS.
SELECTED BY A PRESTIGIOUS JURY COMPRISED BY KARINA SALGUERO , FEDERICO HERRERO , AND DIRECTOR OF MONTE AZUL.
CHERYL EDWARDS
MONOPRINT HANDWORK
SILKSCREENS
Male monoprint / handwork
2 2 ” x 2 2 ” image 30" x 30" framed 2,800.00
Black
Black Female # 2 silkscreen / edition 4/15
2 2” x 22 ” 1,800.00
White Female # 2 silkscreen / edition 16 A/P
22” x 22”
1,800.00
White Male # 2 silkscreen / edition 7/15 22” x 22”
1,800.00
Cheryl D. Edwards, an African American artist was born in 1954 in Miami Beach, Florida. She began her studies in art during 1988 in New York City in a class at the Art Student League taught by Ernest Crichlow. She has been living in Washington, D.C. for the past 30 years. She has exhibited in many shows in Washington, D.C., New York, Virginia, Maryland, Miami, Texas, Pennsylvania, Rotterdam, Germany, Monaco, and Hong Kong.
Edwards is a 2023 (2022,2021and 2015) DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Awardee. She is also the winner of the Black Writers Fellowship: Reporter awarded by Hand Papermaking, Inc., Mendota, MN, and an awardee in the Art Cart: Saving the Legacy project selected by the Research Center for Arts and Culture, New York, NY. The Art Cart Project resulted in the archival of her artwork in the Academic Commons Columbia University archives. Edwards is a teaching artist at the Kreeger Museum and The Washington Studio School located in Washington, D.C.
Edwards is also a Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of The David C. Driskell Center (2015-2023-University of Maryland); Board member of The Studio Visit; a member of the Education Committee of the McClean Project for the Arts and an Advisor to the Washington Sculptors Group in Washington, D.C.
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Lowe Collection, West Palm Beach, Florida Georgetown University Art Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies Washington, D.C.
The Revival Hotel, Side B, Baltimore, Maryland
James E. Lewis Museum (Morgan State University), Baltimore, Maryland University of Maryland Global College, College Park, Maryland
The David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C. Baker McKenzie Law Firm, Washington, D.C.
MONOPRINTS HANDWORK
HENRY JACKSON
Emanation Series # 1 monoprint / handwork
12” x 12” image
19” x 19.5” framed
3,800.00
Emanation Series # 2
monoprint / handwork
12” x 12” image
19” x 19.5” framed
3,800.00
Emanation Series # 3 monoprint / handwork
12” x 12” image
19” x 19.5” framed
3,800.00
Emanation Series # 4
monoprint / handwork
12” x 12” image
19” x 19.5” framed
3,800.00
Series # 5
monoprint / handwork
3,800.00
Emanation Series # 6 monoprint / handwork
3,800.00
Emanation
12” x 12” image
19” x 19.5” framed
12” x 12” image
19” x 19.5” framed
Jackson’s abstracted environments depict a natural world in turmoil and transformation. A recent artist residency to Central America brought Jackson to the rain forests of Costa Rica, a vast ecosystem of ever-changing forms and irreducible shapes. Jackson’s process of applying and eliminating layers of altered oil & ink based media, allows the history of the work to peer through, as well as give him the ability to obliterate that history. Like the environment he observed, this elemental struggle of give and take lend to the works considerable depth and visual unrest.
A San Francisco native and resident, Jackson studied fine art and environmental design at San Francisco State University and CCA, Oakland, CA.
Jackson is a recipient of many awards including: Commission from The San Francisco Zoological Society and John & Michele McNellis, for “Red Ivory - A Kingdom Under Siege”, a large scale video & sound installation, San Francisco, CA; Commission from The San Francisco Zoological Society & The Bernard Osher Foundation, for “Kingdom Animalia”, a large scale video & sound installation, San Francisco, CA; Nathan Oliveira Fellowship Award, presented by MMG Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT; Artist-in-Residency Award (first recipient), The San Francisco Zoological Society; Full Fellowship Award/Artist-in-residency at MACA, Monte Azul, Costa Rica.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
The Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, SF, CA
The de Sassait Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Stole Rives, Boise, ID
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums for: “Kingdom Animalia” 2012, “Red Ivory” 2017 &“Madagascar - Wonder in Peril” 2018 a large scale experimental video & sound installations. As well as numerous corporate, national and international collections.
TARA THACKER
COLLAGRAPHS HANDWORK
Botanica # 5 collagraph /handwork 12” x 12” image
2,200.00
Botanica # 4 collagraph /handwork 12” x 12” image
2,200.00
Botanica # 3 collagraph /handwork 12” x 12” image
2,200.00
Morpho # 6 collagraph 8” x 8” image
27.5” x 20.5” framed
2,400.00
Morpho # 5 collagraph
8” x 8” image
27.5” x 20.5” framed
2,400.00
Morpho # 7 collagraph 8” x 8” image
1,800.00
Tara Thacker is a visual artist inspired by the avian world, her current work explores repetition of form and material transformation, creating layered, tactile works referencing wing structures and flight paths.
At the heart of her artwork is a love of materiality and fascination with transformation. Thacker is absorbed in a laborintensive process. Each sculpted part or mark on paper is unique, serving as an architectural component, combined in various ways to discover their visual behavior Thacker aims to transcend initial forms and create unforeseen surfaces, drawing connections between observation and memory.
Clay is my chosen material for its tactile beauty, malleability, and technical challenges. My intention is to make works that do not immediately appear ceramic, often seeming soft or fabric-like.
Born (1970) in Lynchburg, Virginia, Thacker pursued her passion for ceramics and sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University, earning her BFA in 1992. She continued her studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she received her MFA in Ceramics in 1995. While maintaining an active studio practice, she has worked in the arts (academia or arts administration) since graduate school. In the early 2001, Thacker moved to Vermont to work at the Vermont Studio Center and also as a faculty member at Northern Vermont University in Johnson. In 2024 she moved south and currently lives and works in the central North Carolina town of Star where she is a resident artist at Starworks. Selections of her work are available through Stewart Gallery in Boise, Monte Azul Center for Contemporary Art and Orth Contemporary in Tulsa
ALVARO GOMEZ ULLA
WOODBLOCKS
Les Corps #Vl woodblock 18” x 25” image
1,800.00
Les Corps # lll woodblock
18” x 25” image
1,800.00
Les Corps # l woodblock
18” x 25” image
1,800.00
Les Corps # ll woodblock
18” x 25” image
1,800.00
Les Corps # V woodblock
18” x 25” image
1,800.00
Les Corps # lV woodblock
18” x 25” image
31” x 21.5”framed
2,400.00
I was born and live in Costa Rica, my studio located at the foothills of the Talamanca mountain range in the southern part of the country.
I hold a master’s degree in Arts from the University of Costa Rica, in addition to seminars and courses with guest artists and curators at Arte Teorética, San José,Costa Rica. My professional experience dates back to 1992, but from 1986 to 1991, I studied and practiced engraving in all its manifestations at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Costa Rica.
It is important to highlight that in three years on a graphic level I had the artist in Residence award in Monte Azul, Costa Rica, in addition, and on a pictorial levle I had logistical and growth support with the gallerists and owners of Monte Azul, Carlos Rojas and Randy Langendorfer Then in 2023 I had a maximum recognition with the Best Exhibition named 1 + 1 es másque 2 in Costa Rica.
My favorite artists are two: Cy Twombly and Claude Monet, from whom I draw inspiration. My favorite piece is one called “ Counter Idea,” a work of my creation, which is in a private collection in San Francisco, California.
My work appeals to intuition and trust, arising from an initial idea where the painting guides me to the next step, giving rise to overlapping atmospheres with flowers,where some become transparent, and others are inevitably covered without leaving a trace.
“ What I learned, I no longer know What I still know, I know intuitively,” is my maxim.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art / TeoréTica Ars Foundation, University of Costa Rica / Rojas+Lagendorfer / Monte Azul Contemporary Art / Museum of Graphic Art of La Nación newspaper, (all of these in Costa Rica)
Various private collections in Latin America, USA, Canada, Germany, UK, Switzerland, France, Finland, Lithuania and Costa Rica
Inglaterra, Alemania, Suiza, Francia, Finlandia, Lituania, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panamá, Venezuela y Costa Rica
GUSTVO RAMOS RIVERA
MONOPRINTS HANDWOOK
Monte Azul # 17 monoprint / handwork 24” x 27” image
3,800.00
28”
4,400.00
Born in 1940 in and gradually generation of Mesoamerican by the Mexican which was moving came of age during an ever-greaterwillingness and the United Ramos Rivera’s of San Francisco, Jose Museum institutions in Over the past throughout his like a visual diary, fields of rich color and the iconography linework with shared history. invention of anything
“Painting is a
Monte Azul # 24 monoprint / handwork
24” x 27” image
x 33.5 framed
in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Gustavo Ramos Rivera moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 established himself as a highly respected abstract painter and print maker. He belongs to a Mexican artists who emerged between two distinctive eras: one, a society still clearly marked by Mesoamerican traditions, the mestizo land whose heritage had been both simplified and compellingly codified Mexican muralists; and the second, a postwar culture in the process of becoming truly international, moving inexorably beyond the grasp of those traditions as well as their representations, and which during the early 1960s. As an artist of this subsequent generation, Ramos Rivera has demonstrated ever-greater willingness to look outside Mexico for ideas, and particularly to the contemporary art of Europe United States.”
Rivera’s work is in the permanent collections of prominent institutions including the Fine Arts Museum Francisco, The Mexican Museum in San Francisco, and The Nevada Museum of Art. In 2006, the San of Art presented a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work, which then traveled to additional California and Mexico.
four decades, Gustavo Ramos Rivera has developed a unique visual language that manifests his paintings, monotypes, and collages. His playful and powerful abstract compositions can be read diary, the expression of which works on both intellectual and emotional levels. Ramos Rivera’s color and glyph-like mark making recall both the work of Joan Miro, Paul Klee and Cy Twombly iconography of the indigenous cultural heritage of his native Mexico. The marriage of spontaneous technicolor fields create a highly personal symbology that speaks to memory, experience, and history. Ramos Rivera says of his practice, “Painting is a delightful devotion, a mirror of truth; it’s an anything you want.”
delightful devotion, a mirror of truth; it’s an invention of anything you want.”
Over four decades Wilde has created works of art that tell stories of our shared humanity, individual dignity, and the imperiled environment. In creating series on such themes, Wilde is a seeker of rarefied moments in which the visual arts transfigure facts, figures, and political rhetoric, making of them universal statements that appeal to the senses, emotion, and logic.
Her approach to each project is painstakingly methodical, starting with research supported by scientific, historical, and literary sources, while relying on symbolism and historical context to inform a complex narrative. Wilde’s technique, incorporates ink, acrylic and gold leaf in a combination of both painting and drawing.
Wilde has received two Artist in Residency Fellowship at Monte Azul Contemporary Art, Costa Rica in 2023 and 2025. Djerassi Resident Artist program, Woodside, California in 2017, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New York for painting in 2015. She has received three Regional Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts.
Her works are in numerous public and private collections including the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. New York Public Library, New York, Art in Embassy Collection, Port Louis, Mauritius, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, Wonderful International, Los Angeles, California, William Louis-Dreyfus Family Foundation, New York, Allan and Penny Katz, Allan Katz Americana, Connecticut.
