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PALM BE ACH MODERN AND CONTEMPOR ARY STEPHANIE WILDE CARTEISAN DREAMS
H EN RY JACK SON STE WART G ALLERY IS PLE ASED TO PRESENT SELECTED WORKS BY ARTIST STEPHANIE WILDE
THE PALM BE ACH MODERN AND CONTEMPOR ARY ART FAIR
Jackson’s abstracted environments depict a natural world in transformation and unrest. Jackson’s sensitive and intuitive handling of paint ultimately reveals a rich and elaborate terrain; an elemental surface of multiple readings. Jackson’s practice of application and elimination of bold marks of manipulated oil & ink based media, contribute to the works exceptional d e p t h a n d v i s u a l c o m plexity, enabling process and histor y to disclose infinite interpretations. A San Francisco native and resident, Jackson studied fine ar t and environmental design at San Francisco State University and Califor nia College of the Ar ts, Oakland, CA. Jackson is a recipient of many awards including: Commission from The San Fr ancisco Zoological Society and John & Michele McNellis, for “Red Ivor y - 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 experimental video & sound installation, San Francisco, CA; N ath an O live ir a Fellow sh ip Aw ar d, presented by MMG Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Ste wart G allery has chosen t wo artists for Palm B e ach Modern and F u l l F e l l o w s h i p A w a r d , Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT; Ar tist-in-Residency Contempor ary.Award Henry Jackson forFrancisco his environmental driven paintings (first recipient), The San Zoological Society; Full Fellowship Ar tist-in-residency at MACA, and Monte political Azul, Costa Rica;work among .others. and Stephanie Award Wilde for her social
B oth artists vary differently, but with simil ar intention. Wilde’s Jackson's work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is par t of the ne west works permanent from her l atest of Francisco, Crows) collection of: Theseries Fine Ar ts (Murder Museums of San C A;201 The 5-2022 and Se ver al works from (theof G olden 20de 08Sassait -201Museum, 5 toge ther these Achenbach Foundation Graphic Ar ts,B SF,ees) CA; The Santa Clara, CA; Boise Ar t Museum, ID. works are timely, poignant with Boise, a universal message. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums for : "Kingdom Animalia" 2012, “Red Ivor y” 2017 &“Madagascar - Wo n d e r i n Pe r i l ” 2 0 1 8 - l a r g e s c a l e e x p e r i m e n tal video & sound installations. As well as numerous corporate and private collections.
G O L D EN B EE P R OJ ECT
Mountain
2021
oil on canvas 32” x 32” 4200.00
Off Course ink, acrylic and gold leaf 27” x 27” 36,000.00
My work interfaces along a continuum of painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Color and materiality are paramount. Inspired by obser vations of the manner in which light affects color with its passing movement and changes I am fascinated by the power of color to evoke emotion and to encourage contemplation, allowing the viewer to become the subject of the work. In my daily studio practice I attempt to strike a balance between painterly guts and the pared down elegance of formalism. The inherent tension between these two elements is filled with myster y and metaphor, challenging me to create works which have a sense of inevitability about them and which reveal a sense of oneness with the viewer. Betty Merken is an American painter and printmaker. Her work can be found in several galleries and numerous private and public collections in the United States, Asia, and Europe, and in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Fine Ar ts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor), the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Por tland Ar t Museum in Por tland, Oregon. Long Beach Museum of Ar t, Long Beach, CA. Merken has been honored with fellowships from the Pinea-Linea de Costa Foundation, in Rota, Spain, the BAU Institute in Otranto, Italy and New York and the C i v i t a / N o r t h we s t Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy. She is the co-author, with Stefan Merken, of Wall Ar t.
G O L D EN B EE P R OJ ECT
The Bee and Jupiter ink, acrylic and gold leaf 10” x 52” 36,000.00
The Bee and Jupiter detail
G O L D EN B EE P R OJ ECT
Sacred Bees ink, acrylic and gold leaf 10” x 52” 38,000.00
Sacred Bees detail
Over four decades Wilde has created works of ar individual dignity, and the imperiled environment. seeker of rarefied moments in which the visual ar making of them universal statements that appeal
THE GOLDEN
Her approach to each project is painstakingly me scientific, historical-and literar y sources, while rely BEES 2008 2015 inform a complex narrative. Wilde’s technique , i combination of both painting and dr awing.
Nature and environmental are not exac Wilde received ansubjects Ar tist in Residency Fellowship
Foundation, Boise, Idaho 2020. Djerassi Resident A
yet the subject and here, the Foundation disappearing Weste a Joani.e. Mitchell Grant, New York,
awarded the Governor’s Award for Ar tistic Excell ecological puzzle creating a class of helpless vic for Ar tistic Excellence from the State of Idaho. Sh
the National Endowmentembodying of the Ar ts. Wilde of us, and involving a creature anrece e
Endowment for the Ar ts, 1994. Wilde’s works are of in the permanent collection of Bees project after learning the mysterious ong New York Public Librar y, New York, New York. Ne for which no definitive cause been Harold B. Lee Librar y,has Brigham Youngfound. University,Th U Lake City, Utah. Victoria and Alber t Museum, Lond be very far-reaching given role of the honey Beijing, China. Norathe Eccles Harrison Museum of F Ar t Museum, Fresno, California. Boise Ar t to describe it asFresno AIDS of the colony or colony co Salt Lake City, Utah. Springville Museum of Ar t, Sp Beach, California. Crocker Ar t Museum, Sacramen struggled to accurately define AIDS in its early y California. Boise State University, Boise, Idaho. Wo earlier AIDS work, of Utah. human l Salt addressing Lake Ar ts Center,matters Salt Lake City, William New York. Allan Katz Americana, Madison, Connec private collections.
r t that tell stor ies of our shared humanity, In creating series on such themes, Wilde is a r ts transfigure facts, figures, and political rhetoric, to the senses, emotion, and logic.
thodical, star ting with research suppor ted by ying on symbolism and historical context to incor por ates ink, acr ylic and gold leaf in a
ctly what Stephanie p, Monte Azul, the Costaartist Rica, 2021. Alexa Rose Wilde is known for, Ar tist program, Woodside California in 2017, ern malevolent New Honeybee: York for painting a in 2015. In 2002 she biological was lence in the Ar ts and in 1999 a Mayor’s Award ctims which has serious ramifications for the rest he has received three Regional Fellowships from eived a Wor k mythology. Site gr ant from Wilde the National elaborate began the Golden
f Librar y disappearance of Congress, Washington,of D.C . going the Western Honeybee,
ewark Public Librar y, Newark, New Jersey he effects of this inexpiable could Utah. Marriott Librar y, University of Utah, phenomenon Salt don, England. Museum of Contemporar y Ar t, ybee the ecosystem and have led scientists Fine Ar t,in Utah State University, Logan Utah. Museum, Boise, Idaho. Utah Museum of Fine Ar t, ollapse disorder, just as the medical community pringville, Utah. Long Beach Museum of Ar t, Long nto, California. S c r ipps Coresonated lle ge , Clare mon t, ears. This subject strongly with Wilde’s onderful International, Los Angeles, California life and death. m Louis-Dreyfus Family Foundation, New York, cticut. As well as numerous c o r p o r a t e a n d
AD D ITIONAL WORKS
MURDER OF CROWS
2020 Vision / Blind Leading the Blind ink, acrylic, gesso and gold leaf 30” x 30” 38,000.00
MURDER OF CROWS
Wo rd s ink, acrylic, gesso and gold leaf 13” x 13” 16,000.00
Wo rd s detail
MURDER O
Bifurcating the Colony
/ diptych
ink, acrylic,and gold leaf 10” x 10” lef t panel 16,000.00
OF CROWS
Bifurcating the Colony
/ diptych
ink, acrylic,and gold leaf 10” x 10” right panel
MURDER OF CROWS
The Bones are the Same ink, acrylic and gold leaf
installation of 12 images 6” x 6” each 22,000.00 installation 2400.00 individually
MURDER OF CROWS
Precious Air
ink, acrylic and gold leaf on paper
Bees/ Butterflies/ Birds 6” x 13.5” each image 6,800.00 each
MURDER OF CROWS 2 015 - 2 0 2 2 Murder of Crows is a body of work that speaks to the polarization of race, religion, and political views with a visual subtext of the historical pattern of prejudice. The title is an emblematic reference to flock behavior, herding and the mob mentality that so often accompanies such actions. The issue of race has been imprinted on America from the original indigenous population to slavery, freedom and beyond. Our culture has justified the history of others, those unlike us, as being inferior; a prejudice that has impacted human development on both parts of the divide and now has reached a tipping point. The extremes are visible in the racial bias in the economy, income, crime and the prison population. Religion, as well as race, has been brought into our political world to divide and judge, rather than being a personal navigational journey. It has given select groups political power and has turned our society into a they, them or us culture.
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