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SQUEAK CARNWATH : LUCKY DOG February 13 – March 24, 2015 Squeak Carnwath’s paintings are ruminations on time, place, and human existence. The act of painting is, for her, an affirmation of being. Carnwath’s repetition of symbols, shapes, and referential objects, which may at first seem to come from a random free-associative process, actually serves as an intentional device to illustrate the meditative undercurrent of the artist’s work. Carnwath employs a unique vocabulary of pictographs and hieroglyphs that construct a personal index of meaning while evoking the universal shared languages of loneliness, emotion and memory. This enduring vocabulary, which has remained consistent throughout Carnwath’s career, has returned through new iterations in the works that will be exhibited at Tayloe Piggott Gallery; candelabras, sinking ships, vinyl records, and loose-leaf text all make their way into this new body of work.
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SQUEAK CARNWATH
LUCKY DOG
TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY
13 FEBRUARY — 24 MARCH 2015
LUCKY DOG
SQUEAK CARNWATH
62 SOUTH GLENWOOD STREET JACKSON HOLE WYOMING TEL 307 733 0555TAYLOEPIGGOTTGALLERY.COM
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Gently on the Sea, 2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel70 x 60 inches
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Lucky Dog, 2014 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel75 x 65 inches
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From Far Away, 2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel70 x 70 inches
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Sink Swim, 2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel75 x 65 inches
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Common in Ten Languages, 2013 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel70 x 60 inches
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Navigate, 2011-2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas12 x 9 inches
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Ship, 2011-2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas
12 x 12 inches
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Without Work, 2011 Collograph, pastel, ink, collage and graphite on paper60 x 48 inches
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Citizen, 2009 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel55 x 50 inches
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Baby Blue, 2014 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel30 x 30 inches
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Macanudo Ascots, 2005 Paint, cigar box (paper covered mahogany)6 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 10 inches
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Paint Box, 1997 Paint, cigar box (paper covered mahogany)
7 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 4 inches
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No Side 2, ed. 7/10, 2012 U.V. cured ink and graphite on wood panel12 x 12 inches
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LUCKY DOG
Gently on the Sea, 2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel70 x 60 inches$46,000
Citizen, 2009 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel55 x 50 inches$42,000
Lucky Dog, 2014 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel75 x 65 inches$46,000
Baby Blue, 2014 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel30 x 30 inches$25,000
From Far Away, 2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel70 x 70 inches$46,000
Macanudo Ascots 2005 Paint, cigar box (paper covered mahogany)6 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 10 inches$2,500
Sink Swim, 2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel75 x 65 inches$46,000
Paint Box, 1997 Paint, cigar box (paper covered mahogany)7 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 4 inches$2,500Common in Ten Languages, 2013
Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel70 x 60 inches$46,000
No Side 2, ed. 7/10, 2012 U.V. cured ink and graphite on wood panel12 x 12 inches$1,500
Navigate, 2011-2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas12 x 9 inches$18,000
Ship, 2011-2012 Oil and alkyd on canvas12 x 12 inches$18,000
Without Work, 2011 Collograph, pastel, ink, collage and graphite on paper60 x 48 inches$20,700
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SQUEAK CARNWATH
Squeak Carnwath was born in 1947 in Abington, Pennsylvania. She has been an artist since age six, and an educator since she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977. Before receiving her degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Carnwath attended Goddard College in Vermont. She exhibits regularly in several cities in the United States: in Seattle at James Harris Gallery, in Los Angeles at Peter Mendenhall Gallery, in Santa Fe at Turner Carroll Gallery, in Lincoln at Clark Gallery, and in Jackson Hole at Tayloe Piggott Gallery, among others.
Her work is included in prominent collections including the San Francisco Museum of Mod-ern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, the Rene and Veronica di Rosa Collection, San Francisco Fine Art Museums, and Yale Univer-sity Art Gallery. Her paintings are held in museums and private collections internationally.
Carnwath’s first university teaching position in 1982 was at UC Berkeley. A year later, she successfully applied for a tenure-track position at UC Davis, where she taught for 15 years. In 1998, Carnwath returned to the Berkeley campus as Professor in Residence in the De-partment of Art Practice. Carnwath is now Professor Emerita of Art Practice at UC Berke-ley. She is a founding member and current president of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation.
Carnwath’s accomplishments have been recognized with numerous grants and awards, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 1980 SECA award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a 1994 fellowship from the Guggenheim Founda-tion and a Flintridge Foundation award in 2002. She has also completed residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY and at Djerassi in Woodside, CA. Her work has been the subject of articles in major periodicals, including ARTnews, Artforum, and New York Times. A monograph with nearly one hundred color reproductions of her paintings, Squeak Car-nwath: Lists, Observations, & Counting, was published in 1996 by Chronicle Books. Her second monograph, Squeak Carnwath: Painting is No Ordinary Object, was published in conjunction with a 20-year survey at the Oakland Museum of California in 2009. In 2014, a survey entitled Horizon on Fire: Works on Paper 1979-2013 was published.
Shows in 2014 included solo exhibitions at Peter Mendenhall Gallery, College of Marin Fine Arts, Clark Gallery, and the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work was included in group exhibitions at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Penn-sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the de Saisset Museum, among others.
Photography in this catalogue courtesy of M. Lee Fatherree.
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