Independent 20th Century
Featuring: Squeak Carnwath

September 5th - 8th, 2024
Booth B6

Jane Lombard Gallery returns to Independent 20th Century with a solo presentation of works by Squeak Carnwath. Focusing on Carnwath’s rich visual vocabulary and continuity of style, the exhibited works explore the medium of paint as a stand-in for the human experience. Carnwath’s paintings require attention and thought; recognizable shapes and symbols amplify the written words on the canvas, forming a catalog of her thoughts and daily life. As she layers, carves, and scrawls, her mark-making takes on the role of scars or blemishes, their uniqueness serving as evidence of their own genealogy and history. The repetition of her visual motifs extends beyond painting into her accompanying cigar-box sculptures. Functioning as hybrids of sculpture and painting, these works use paint as a type of diary, recording the evidence of her actions, thoughts and ideas. Likening her iconography and messages to anonymous notes scrawled upon the wall of a public bathroom, Carnwath’s work is inherently intimate yet open to everyone.

About Squeak Carnwath
Squeak Carnwath (b. 1947, Pennsylvania) earned her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (1977). The artist has received numerous awards including a Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award, the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award from SFMoMA, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award for Individual Artists from the Flintridge Foundation, and inducted into the National Academy of Design. Her work has been exhibited at several renowned national institutions, including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; among many others. Her work has also been included in exhibitions worldwide, such as the Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Ireland; Guanlan Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, China; SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY; Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain; Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; MFA Hanoi, Vietnam; The Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore; Jakarta Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; MFA Boston, Boston, MA; Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Her work is included in the collections of SFMoMA; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, among others. Carnwath is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a founding member and current president of the Artists' Legacy Foundation.

About Jane Lombard Gallery
Jane Lombard Gallery has an established reputation for bringing to the forefront artists who work within a global perspective/aesthetic relevant to the social and political climate of today. The gallery seeks to promote both emerging and mid-career artists in a variety of media – painting, sculpture, installation, and film – in the US, Europe, and Asia. Founded in 1995 in Soho as Lombard Freid projects, the gallery later moved to Chelsea, first to 26th Street, and later to 19th Street in 2010. The gallery is now located in Tribeca at 58 White St.

Fair Hours
September 5, 2024: 11AM – 8 PM (By Invitation)
September 6, 2024: 11 AM – 7 PM
September 7, 2024: 11 AM – 7 PM
September 8, 2024: 11 AM – 6 PM

Independent 20th Century
Cipriani South Street
10 South Street
New York, NY 10004

Image caption: Squeak Carnwath, Things I've Heard Or Seen In Person, 1998. Oil and alkyd on canvas, 77 x 77 in.