Stephanie Wilde
At the High Line Nine
A Look Closer
May 01 - May 30, 2023
High Line Nine
George Billis Gallery shows Karen Woods and Elizabeth O'Reilly
October 1st - 30th 2022
Blue Umbrella
Oil on canvas
10” x 10”
Clear to Fly
Oil on canvas
14” x 11”
Capital Night
Oil on canvas
11”x 20”
Introspective at Boise Art Museum
Stephanie Wilde
At the Boise Art Museum
Introspective
June 29 - October 13, 2019
Stephanie Wilde is known for her lavish, intricate works addressing global contemporary issues and societal concerns. Her images portray a quiet and gentle aesthetic, developed from an interior narrative and drawn from a range of literary, historical, and scientific sources. The hidden power of Wilde’s work lies in the way these elaborate motifs intensify her perspective on the persistent human issues that overwhelm us - prejudice, greed, fear, grief, and death. Each narrative tells a story of our human struggle, while sharing our continuing desire for beauty and compassion.
This selective retrospective highlights Wilde’s artistic practice, spanning over four decades. Selections from her series of work explore subjects such as the AIDS epidemic in the US and Africa, climate change and its effect on the western honey bee, corporate greed, and social polarization.
Intentional Silence (installation of 20 images)
ink, acrylic, gesso and gold leaf on museum board
4” x 4” / from Murder of Crows Project / 2015 - present
Stephanie Wilde at Forum Gallery
Murder of Crows
May 31st - June 20th
Opening Reception:
May 31st
Miasma
acrylic, ink and gold leaf
28" x 28"
2017
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.
Forum Gallery
475 Park Avenue at 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
tel (212) 355-4545
Monday through Saturday 10 am to 5:30pm
Karen Woods at George Billis Gallery
Land and Sea
May 15th - June 9th
Opening Reception:
May 17th, 6 - 8pm
Cruise #1
Oil on linen
14" x 16"
Karen Woods has long been fascinated by a view of the world "from the inside looking out". This subject manifests itself primarily in paintings of streetscapes as seen from the inside of a car, often through a rain-soaked windshield.
The new paintings launch this motif out to sea; that is, they represent the view from a cruise taken around the periphery of Manhattan. While not geographically far from the city streets, these seascapes present the entirely new challenge of painting water through water.
George Billis Gallery
525 W 26th St
Ground Floor
New York, NY 10001
tel (212 - 645 - 2621)
Matt Duffin Book Cover for Carlos Ruiz Zafón
From Matt's blog, "It was a chance to take a stab at a book cover for the latest novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, an internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author and perhaps Spain’s most celebrated since Cervantes. After working out concepts and details through sketches for the past couple of weeks, I’ve been given the green light to proceed with the cover image by Zafón himself."
Congratulations, Matt!
Congratulations, Henry Jackson!
Henry Jackson's work was acquired for Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums, of San Francisco, CA.
Congratulations Henry!
Garth Claassen Selected for Art History Seminar
"The seminar, organized annually by the Council of Independent Colleges as part of its “Teaching European Art in Context” series, is designed for faculty members from smaller colleges and universities as a way to introduce new techniques and perspectives for their undergraduate art history classes. Claassen is one of 25 professors selected from around the country to participate.
Congratulations Garth, couldn't be more well deserved.
Henry Jackson's "Red Ivory"
Congratulations, Henry Jackson!
"Red Ivory, by Artist in Residence Henry Jackson takes viewers through several scenes describing elephants in the past, present and future, showing the consequences of illegal wildlife trade...
The film is an emotional piece of art that has the purpose of filling the blank and creating a different attitude in people,” said Jackson. “Even the smallest communication and getting people to stop buying ivory would contribute to the issue.”
Matt Duffin for New York Times Magazine
The illustrations were used in the Colson Whitehead Underground Railroad project with the New York Times Magazine.
The Way to Wilder installed at Boise Art Museum
Boise artist Karen Woods presents a new body of work based on her journeys to Wilder, Idaho. Her paintings put the viewer alongside her traveling by car, experiencing a rainstorm.
Karen Woods’ exhibition, The Way to Wilder, installed at the Boise Art Museum. In this latest body of work, Woods is introducing larger scale and a looser painting style, her aim is to give the viewer a feeling of foreboding in the midst of a storm with water covering the windshield and a palette that evokes dampness and cold. Woods has the ability to make commonplace more than we imagine.
If you haven’t had a chance see her exhibition, this is a small taste of a beautiful show. Hope you can take time to visit the museum and Stewart Gallery to see Karen’s paintings.
The Way to Wilder
We are pleased to announce The Way to Wilder, an upcoming exhibition of new works from artist Karen Woods at Boise Art Museum. This new body of work was inspired by a recent journey to Wilder, Idaho during a rain storm. The experience of the drive and the resulting images compelled Woods to try a new approach to painting, combining the rich color palette and technical skill she is known for with a hint of wildness. The paintings in this series are a raw and intimate experience of this journey.
Visiting Artist Yuko Nakaya
Japanese artist Yuko Nakaya has arrived in Boise, and is installing her solo exhibition at the gallery next week. Nakaya is the 2001 recipient of the YUMEHIROBA HARUHI BIENNALE (Aichi) Award for Excellence. Her work is shown primarily in Japan and Brussels. Stewart Gallery is honored to be introducing her work in the United States.
Japanese artist, Yuko Nakaya, is the 2001 recipient of the YUMEHIROBA HARUHI BIENNALE (Aichi) Award for Excellence. Her work is shown primarily in Japan and Brussels. Stewart Gallery is honored to be introducing her work in the United States.
Japanese artist Yuko Nakaya creates lush and compelling installations that incorporate painting, sculpture and drawing. Her work is an exploration of borders; borders as walls between nations and cultures, the border between the conscious and unconscious mind, and the borders we create between ourselves and others.
Nakaya integrates a wide variety of materials in a delicate balance, creating works that move seamlessly between the traditional boundaries of two- and three- dimensionality in artwork. Her paintings combine a rich color palette and intense contrast to create a palpable depth, with forms that seem to rise up off the canvas and plunge deep beyond it. A two-dimensional painting presented on the floor becomes the base of a sculptural installation. Lines made from vinyl tape traverse floors and windows in an immersive and multi-planar drawing. The ability to define pieces by category disappears, breaking down the borders we have assigned them.
There is an ephemeral tension in Nakaya’s work, an impression that each piece captures a fleeting moment of perfection. It is the anticipation in watching a soap bubble, knowing that at any moment it will burst, that the flower in perfect bloom will wilt tomorrow, and that the sunset is already disappearing behind the skyline. This transience momentarily breaks down the border, allowing the viewer to glimpse the conscious and the unconscious simultaneously, in an instant of clarity between states.
Karen Woods at George Billis Gallery
Stewart Gallery is pleased to announce Karen Woods’ upcoming exhibition at George Billis Gallery, New York. The show runs March 1st through March 26th, and the opening reception will be held Thursday, March 3rd from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
