Archive: 2006 Exhibitions

Winter Exhibition:
Paintings and Objects, Stewart Artists,
|and introducing Henry Jackson:
Descendants and Brad Brown: The Look Stains

December 9 – January 22nd, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday, December 9, 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Artist Lecture, 6.00pm

Stewart Gallery’s Winter Exhibition, explores the work of contemporary artists working in Idaho, the West, and nationally. The Gallery’s Holiday Celebration opening is December 9, 2006, from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. Featured artists will occupy three exhibition spaces and a newly intimate fourth gallery.

The Winter Exhibition is a compilation of three unique shows. Paintings and Objects features the work of eleven artists in a range of media. This exhibition of small 5x5 works is an opportunity for the beginning collector to explore his or her interests. Stewart Artists displays the work of the Gallery’s exclusive artists. In conjunction with our group exhibition, Stewart Gallery, is introducing two new artists, Henry Jackson of San Francisco and Brad Brown of New York. Jackson has created a new series of paintings and works on paper. Brown’s installation will feature his grid patterns made up fragmented torn drawings.





Genus 30
Henry Jackson
Cold wax, Oil, Dry Pigment and Graphite on Ragcoat



Half a Life, solo exhibition Stephanie Wilde
November 10 – December 4, 2006
Opening Reception Friday, November 10, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

“This was an unplanned journey,” says Boise artist Stephanie Wilde. For 23 years, Wilde has investigated the social impact of the AIDS epidemic. Her exhibition Half a Life at Stewart Gallery features a series of new drawings and etchings based on this continuing study.

Wilde’s first body of work, Plague Series (1982-1987), explored the relationship between AIDS and the Black Plague. The Black Plague, also known as the Black Death, was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-late-14th century (1347–1351), killing between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population.

Research and travel to Gambia, West Africa, led her to a second series AIDS in Africa (15 drawings 1987-1990). In phase three of her studies, Wilde created four 4-color plate etchings (limited editions of 30) entitled SLIM completed in 1993. During the intervening twelve years, Wilde has revisited the subject matter and imagery of those original explorations. Reinvestigation and her passion about AIDS has compelled her to expand the existing work. These culminating studies will be shown in her exhibition at Stewart Gallery.



Death's Harvest Installation, 2006
13 Panels

Wood, Paper, Paint, September 9th-October 23rd, 2006:
Opening Reception Friday, September 8th 7-9pm

This exhibition will feature two emerging and two established artists working with the mediums wood, paper, and paint. Christian Burchard was born in Hamburg, Germany and now resides in Southern Oregon. His work has been shown at SOFA New York, SOFA Chicago, London, Australia, and Germany. He is included in the collections of the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Gallery of Art and Design at North Carolina State University, Detroit Art Museum, and the American Decorative Arts at Yale University. Deborah Barrett has exhibited in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Los Angeles, and New York. Her mixed media drawings have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire and The New York Times, among others. A writer by formal education, Barrett brings a literate style to her art work, and invites the viewer to interpet their own meaning from her work.Troy Passey is an emerging local artist who works in the medium of ink, acrylic and graphite on paper. He incorporates handwritten phrases into complex images using text to create his visual landscape that is sensitive and poetic. Andrea Gutierrez, another emerging artist living in Los Angeles, is a painter that takes us on a journey with her paintings as a quiet exploration into personal and universal subjects. Her minimalist abstract work is quiet with a thoughtful presence. Exhibitions change approximately every six weeks. Private showings of work from previous exhibitions may be arranged by appointment.



Canyon Walls #8
Christian Burchard
Bleached Madrone Burl
19" x 13" x 11"



Couples 3
Christian Burchard
Bleached Madrone Burl
16" x 27" x 13"


Sara Spink
August 26th - 30th

This five-day exhibition by Washington artist Sara Spink combines mixed-media sculpture with experimental stop-motion animation. Sara created sculptures to be used in a film of an autobiographical nature focusing on the relationship that humans have with canines. The exhibition will consist of the sculptures used to make the film and the film itself, which will run continuously. The project was inspired by the art of Mexico as well as by events in the artist’s own life.





Pilchuck 20 *Second Annual Exhibition
June 16th – August 12th, 2006



Bee Butts and Buoys
Nancy Callan
Blown Glass
Courtesy of William Traver Gallery




Memory Container #7
James Mcleod
Glass, Wire, Steel, Waked Linen, Cork

Opening Reception: Friday June 16th from 7:00-9:00 pm
Pilchuck 20 /exhibits twenty emerging and established artistsaffiliated with Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington. DaleChihuly founded the world-renowned artistic and educational center in1971, offering students the opportunity to work with master teachersduring intensive fifteen-day sessions. The school’s experimental spiritcontinues to attract artists from all over the world, working in a widevariety of styles and techniques. Pilchuck 20 demonstrates thisdiversity. Participants include: Benjamin Moore, Sonja Blomdahl, Karen Buhler, Nick Wirdnam, Mel Munsen, Rachel Moore, Steve Klein, David Hering, Nancy Callan, Scott Schroeder, Nadege Desgenetez, Jen Violette, Joe Parra, Leo Morrissey, Parker Harper, Carol Milne, Sean O’Neill and Cassandria Blackmore..


Duo Exhibition
Geoff Krueger: Dulce Domum
Alan Macdonald: Threads, Links and Dreams
May 12th 2006




Alan Macdonald
Portrait of a Dreamer
Oil on Panel




Geoff Krueger
Living Room
Oil on Canvas
54"X72"


This exhibition will combine two gallery-represented artists. Alan Macdonald was born in Malawi, Central Africa and is now working and living in Carnoustie, Scotland. Still lifes from Threads, Links and Dreams depict objects hanging by threads, which are compartmentalized or “linked” together. A dream-like quality pervades the artist’s work, with figures reminiscent of renaissance portraiture. This is Alan’s second exhibition at Stewart Gallery.

Geoff Krueger, a local artist recently collected by the Boise Art Museum, has created a new body of work titled Dulce Domum, a latin phrase and chapter heading in the book The Wind in the Willows, which means “Home Sweet Home”. In this series of paintings the artist realistically depicts deconstructed houses that remind us of the thin walls we count on to remain safe and anonymous to the outside world.

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