STEPHANIE WILDE
Murder of Crows
Outsider Fair 2023
Booth D20
Murder of Crows 2015 - 2022
Murder of Crows views with a visual
The title is an emblematic accompanies such indigenous population others, those unlike both parts of the bias in the economy, brought into our journey. It has given us culture. .
Crows is a body of work that speaks to the polarization of race, religion, and political visual subtext of the historical pattern of prejudice.
emblematic reference to flock behavior, herding and the mob mentality that so often such actions. The issue of race has been imprinted on America from the original population to slavery, freedom and beyond. Our culture has justified the history of unlike us, as being inferior; a prejudice that has impacted human development on the divide and now has reached a tipping point. The extremes are visible in the racial economy, income, crime, and the prison population. Religion, as well as race, has been our political world to divide and judge, rather than being a personal navigational given select groups political power and has turned our society into a they, them, or
Stephanie Wilde 2015Crows
There is a divided debate on Covid 19, climate change, regardless of scientific data. Divided on the election and it seems the blind are leading the blind, getting information from social media, and thinking it is validity on par to dedicated journalism.
2020 Vision / Blind leading the Blind
30” x 30”
ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2020 - 2021
The Black Madonna is believed to have mystical powers, she also speaks to an ancient cultural memory of the African origins of humanity, representing the original mother of humanity. Blackness has a very strong symbolic meaning connected to love, nurturing, protection, transformation, power, wisdom, fertility, and justice. This is timely symbolism.
Black Madonna II
20” x 30”
ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf 2022 - 2023
Words detail
To quote social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger.
“The Dunning-Kruger effect” is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. This behavior is evident in how words have given license to behaviors driven by fear, prejudice, and hate from those in power.
Words
13” x 13”
ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Religion drives politics and power. Instead of unifying and being respectful of others, religion has sometimes become a means to divide and create fear among society. In the end, our bones are the same regardless of the color of our skin, politics, and economic status
Bones are the Same / Installation
12 panels, 6” x 6” each ink, acrylic, and gold leaf 2017
Bones are the Same / Christian
6” x 6”
ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Judism
6” x 6”
ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Shinto 6” x 6” ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Muslim
6” x 6”
ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Hindu
6” x 6”
ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Sikh 6” x 6” ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Zoroastrian 6” x 6” ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Baha’i 6” x 6” ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Confucianism
6” x 6”
ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Jainism
6” x 6”
ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Taoist
6” x 6”
ink, acrylic, and gold leaf
2017
Bones are the Same / Buddhist 6” x 6” ink, acrylic, and gold leaf 2017
Antisemitism is generally considered to be a form of racism, unfortunately we have a political atmosphere that embraces and feeds the behavior of these individuals.
Posessed by the Furies Diptych 8” x 8” ink, acrylic, and gold leaf 2016
There is an oral history that symbols were used in quilts form by slaves to escape slavery from the plantation. These quilts helped signal slaves to prepare and navigate to the underground railroad. The quilt was a way to communicate to a person in the presence of many without others knowing.
Intentional Silence / Look Listen Follow 20 panels, 4” x 4” each ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf 2018
Basket
4” x 4”
ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Sailboat
4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Field Workers
4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold
2018
gold leaf
Drunkard’s Path
4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Nine Basket
4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Singular Toil 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
North Star 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Monkey Wrench 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold 2018
Crossroads
gold leaf
2018
2018
4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf Flying Geese 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
Log Cabin 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf 2018
Rose Wreath 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf 2018
Bear’s Paw 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold 2018
gold leaf
Britches
4” x 4”
ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Bowtie / Hourglass
4” x 4”
ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Broken Dishes 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Shoofly 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
Wagon Wheel Variation 4” x 4” ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold
2018
Tumbling Blocks
gold leaf
ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
ink, acrylic, gesso, and gold leaf
2018
4” x 4”
Family 4” x 4”
A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Abraham Lincoln
Yes No Diptych
x 12”
acrylic, gesso, and
leaf
No
12”
ink,
gold
2022
Off Course detail
“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
Jonathan SwiftOff Course has been included in the exhibition of Murder of Crows because of it’s narrative and continued relevance in addressing climate change. It is a part of the Golden Bee Project.
Course 27” x 27”
Off
ink, acrylic, and gold leaf 2014
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 received an Artist in Residency Fellowship at Monte Azul contemporary Art, Costa Rica in 2023. Djerassi Resident Artist program, Woodside, California in 2017, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New York for painting in 2015. In 2002 she was awarded the Governor’s Award for Artistic Excellence in the Arts and in 1999 a Mayor’s Award for Artistic Excellence from the State of Idaho. She has received three Regional Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts. Wilde received a Work Site grant from the National Endowment for the Art for travel to Scotland in 1994.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Utah
Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Fine Art, Utah State University
Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Scripps College, Claremont, California
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
Visual Chronical, City Hall, Boise, Idaho
Wonderful International, Los Angeles, California
Wells Fargo Bank, Boise, Idaho
The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho
Salt Lake Arts Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
William Louis-Dreyfus Family Foundation, New York, New York
Allan Katz Americana, Madison, Connecticut
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