Jane Lombard Gallery is excited to present works by Squeak Carnwath, James Clar, Sarah Dwyer, Teppei Kaneuji, Carmen Neely, and Elizabeth Schwaiger for UNTITLED, San Francisco.
Squeak Carnwath meticulously applies layers of oil paint with text and repeated symbolic exploration of human experience. Her vocabulary of images, both representational and abstract, creates a narrative that offers a glimpse into her vibrant and complex life. She is the 2019 recipient of the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award. Carnwath is based in Oakland, California.
James Clar is an American artist of Filipino descent. He studied Film and Animation at New York University and received his Masters at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His work explores the conceptual and narrative potential of light and technology. As an extension of the visual systems of film and television, he gravitates towards lights, LEDs, and technology systems, but often applied in a critical discourse these technologies have on our perception and reality.
Sarah Dwyer is a painter and sculptor from Ireland, she received her Master’s in painting from the Royal College of Art in London where she continues to live and work. Her historically imbued “portraits” reveal traces of memory and fragments of found imagery, resulting in unpredictable forms and mark-making. Reduction and erasure play as much a part as application and layer; her line meanders over quick, loose gestures and refined shapes, which are both whimsical and ephemeral. Canvases are worked and reworked, retaining something of the paintings past, building up multiple layers of paint in some areas while others reveal raw linen.
Teppei Kaneuji investigates the mass consumption of contemporary Japanese culture, sourcing materials from everyday life, found objects and manga characters to create work that is both playful and menacing. Kaneuji grafts together the detritus of overconsumption, creating candy-colored sculptures and prints with Manga-influenced lines that are the product of the overly stimulating, image-saturated culture in which he was raised. The unlikely allure of these bricolage entities lies in their embodiment of estranged elements; be
they physical or psychological, attributes are layered, rationalized and given a new life through complex arrangements.
Carmen Neely’s work—a combination of painting and found objects—is imbued with deep intention and awareness of her identity as a young black woman making art in the twenty-first century. “The mark,” revered and mythologized as the purest form of artistic intention in the art historical canon, becomes an act of subtle subversion in Neely’s paintings. Her own sexuality and female body appropriate the traditionally masculine gesture, and turn
painting into an act of femininity. Neely has been a resident artist at Sparkbox Studio, Ontario, Canada, Vermont Studio Center and McCall Center for Art + Innovation. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University.
Elizabeth Schwaiger is based in Texas and New York. She received a Master’s degree from the Glasgow School of Art in 2011. She was recently awarded a residency by The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation at the artist's studio estate in Captiva, FL. Schwaiger's work is collected in North America and in Europe and has been exhibited in prominent museums in Liverpool, London, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cardiff, and in Texas.
