WINSTON WÄCHTER FINE ART - ARTIST SELECTIONS -
Winston Wächter Fine Art 203 Dexter Ave North Seattle, WA 98109 206.652.5855 gallery@winstonwachter.com www.winstonwachter.com
Tony Scherman Canadian artist Tony Scherman is best known for his masterful encaustic techniques, where pigment and wax create lush, textured, and dramatic surfaces. His portraiture and still lifes are carefully imbued with a dream-like intensity and the force of his vision. While Scherman calls upon historical figures and periods, he chooses to embellish his subjects with modern themes— thereby evoking symbolism and deeper meaning. Scherman exhibits internationally and is also featured in various public and corporate collections.
Conversations with the Devil, 2011-12, encaustic on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
Tony Scherman in private residence Bodicea, 2013, encaustic on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Tracy Rocca Tracy Rocca’s work consists of intricate layers that are carefully built over time to achieve their characteristic luminosity and unique sense of depth. It was Rocca’s commute that led to the interpretation of landscape in her work. The faster Rocca moved, she noticed, the more tranquil the roadside landscape appeared. By obscuring and editing the details of a particular scene, Rocca’s fluid and expressive works resonate with a similar calmness. Rocca begins with color palettes as inspiration and from there allows the colors to convey the mood of the landscape. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in the United States Embassies Collection, the Microsoft Art Collection, and the University of New Mexico Collection.
Cadmium, 2013, Oil on polyester over panel, 42 x 42 inches
Tracy Rocca in private residence
Submerge, 2013, Oil on polyester over panel, 48 x 60 inches
Andreas Kocks German artist, Andreas Kocks, works in massive and meticulously crafted installations of cut paper. Working solely with paper and a limited color palette, Kocks’ forms seek to evoke and balance elements of four artistic genres: the linearity of drawing, the painterly brushstroke, the site-specific element of architecture, and the physicality of sculpture. His works can be seen in museums and private collections in Europe and America.
Andreas Kocks in Private Installation
Andreas Kocks in Private Residence Andreas Kocks installation
Betsy Eby Northwest native Betsy Eby finds inspiration in the region’s natural phenomena. Her abstract paintings incorporate a soothing palette and subtly reference wildflowers, flowing water, migratory birds, frost covered leaves, and misty forests. A lifelong pianist, Eby’s brush strokes have a cadence and rhythm reminiscent of musical compositions and classical sonatas. By employing beeswax in her painting process, she slowly builds up the surfaces of her canvases, creating depth and texture that heighten the organic quality of her work. Eby’s paintings have been exhibited widely across the United States and are held in the collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, the Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, and several United States Embassies around the world.
Un Sospiro, 2014, encaustic on canvas over panel, 70 x 55 inches
Betsy Eby working in her studio
Chanson de Matin, 2012, encaustic on canvas over panel, 30 x 48 inches
James Osher Studies have shown that the average museum visitor spends three seconds viewing each individual artwork. Based on the paintings of Masters and Old Masters, James Osher’s work questions the accepted cultural “value” of these seemingly “priceless” objects. Osher encourages the viewer to evaluate their relationship to art objects, beyond the casual glancing norm that has become the socially assumed method of experiencing art. He is interested in the dynamic of the actual viewing of original painted images in motion and at different angles, the contemplative intent experienced in transition. Osher has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Canada.
Bluedress, 2008, C-print, 34.5 x 57 inches
Swing, 2008, C-print, 34.5 x 57 inches
Ann Gardner Northwest artist Ann Gardner creates glittering mosaics about repetition, pattern, and rhythm. To create each piece, the artist uses a combination of pigment-tinted concrete and glass, which she cuts and lays individually to create complex patterns and abstract forms. Her work is influenced by her extensive travels to sites that convey a sense of dynamism and repetition. Ann Gardner has won numerous awards, and her work is included in numerous major collections, including the National Museum of American Art, the American Craft Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Racine Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, and the Seattle Art Museum.
White Knot, 2006, glass mosaic and steel, 22 x 16 x 10.5 inches
Passager installation
Grace installation
Robin Layton Robin Layton’s photographs have the quiet ability to capture life; the universal places and moments often passed over. Her series have focused on the crashing of waves, the solitude of coastal and country landscapes and the familiarity of the basketball hoop. Layton masterfully forces the viewer to press pause and take breath. During her 25 years as a photojournalist, Robin Layton has produced countless notable photographs and earned a place among the world’s top photographers. By age 24, she was honored by LIFE magazine as one of the top eight most talented photographers in America. Among her numerous awards as a photojournalist, Layton is also a Pulitzer Prize nominee and Nikon Ambassador. Heaven Sent, 2014, premium high gloss arcival print, multiple editions & sizes
Infinity in private residence
Me and My Shadow, 2014, premium high gloss arcival print, multiple editions & sizes
Etsuko Ichikawa Etsuko Ichikawa’s work investigates what lies between the ephemeral and the eternal through the use of glass, paper, fiber, video, and sound. Her ‘pygrographs’ and ‘aquagraphs’ are drawings made by fire and water, capturing and eternalizing the immediacy of a moment. The format of her work varies from small two-dimensional images to large-scale installations and performance-based work. Ichikawa has completed several artist in residence programs at the Pilchuck Glass School and has been recognized by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Art. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including The Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo, Waterhouse & Dodd in New York City, the Henry Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum.
Trace 5114, 2014, glass pyrograph on paper, 38 x 52 inches
Etsuko Ichikawa working in studio
Trace 6114 and 6914, 2014, glass pyrograph on paper, 38 x 52 inches
Seton Smith Photographs by New York based artist, Seton Smith, are at once abstract and vividly familiar. Smith is interested in concepts of how architecture and environment affect people psychologically. She invites people to be more conscious of their architectural environments by presenting images that focus on the formal aspects of a given space, such as color, line, form and perspective. Smith’s work is included in the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Villa de Paris, Musée des Beux Arts, Centre George Pompidou, International Center for Photography, as well as several other private and corporate collections.
Guest House Left Room, 2003, C-print, 48 x 48 inches
Empire, 2002, C-print, 72 x 53 inches Sliding Rocks in House, 2003, C-print, 48 x 48 inches
Julie Speidel Fascinated by glacial geology, ancient megaliths, and by sites in Ireland, Turkey, and China, Julie Speidel’s large and small-scale works appear timeless and at times, exotic. While her glacial rocks pay homage to Pacific Northwest geological forces, her totemic sculptures carry an air of mystery and spiritualism. Whether installed alone or in groups of two or more, her work has a formidable presence that alters the environment in which it is presented. Julie Speidel’s sculptures are included in many prestigious private and public collections in the U.S. and abroad, including the Tacoma Art Museum, three United States Embassies, the Oracle Collection, the Boeing Collection and the Nordstrom Collection.
Humes Glacier, 2013, stainless steel, 50 x 102 x 64 inches
Fahan, 2014, bronze, 24 x 17 x 6 inches
Julie Speidel works in the Studio
Susan Dory Northwest artist Susan Dory uses layers of acrylic paint to create an interplay of depth and translucency. Through a process of under painting and pouring paint that strategically uses elements of color and line, Dory activates each canvas surface. Colors seem to both recede and press forward as bold lines move the eye’s gaze in various directions with penetrating affect. Dory has received both national and local awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Willard R. Espy Foundation Artist-in-Residence Fellowship and the Behnke Foundation’s Neddy Artist Fellowship.
Model Colony, 2013, acrylic on canvas over panel, 54 x 60 inches
Susan Dory in private residence Mach 1 and Mach 5, 2014, acrylic on canvas over panel, 30 x 24 inches (each)
Jessica Craig-Martin Given her background as a press photographer for Vanity Fair, Vogue, and other publications, New York-based photographer Jessica Craig-Martin is granted access to an otherwise inaccessible world of socialites, models, actors, and other elite individuals. Piquing the viewer’s voyeuristic tendencies, Craig-Martin presents skillfully cropped and angled photographs of glittering individuals shot at various society parties, charity fundraisers, art exhibitions, and other invite-only soirees. In contrast to all of the champagne, glamorous gowns, sequins, silk, designer duds, and opulent baubles on the individuals that inhabit her work, Craig-Martin’s photographs present moments of flawed beauty and stark reality – a human vulnerability in the otherwise unapproachable privileged world. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the New Museum, the Progressive Corporation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Install in Sorrento Hotel
Coming and Going, 2014, C-print, 28.5 x 35.75 inches
Ladies and Gents, Moulin de Mougins, 2008, C-print, 24 x 36 inches