TOM MONTEITH afloat
TOM MONTEITH
afloat – Represents a chance to view the remarkable work of Tom Monteith.
I have been fortunate to have seen and been continually amazed by Monteith’s work. For over twenty years, his use of the landscape and figure have continued to evolve into ever more sophisticated works. Monteith’s use of color, space and atmosphere, make works that almost shimmer and their sometimesrecognizable exteriors leave the viewer of the work continually asking questions of the work and the feeling of, I have been there before. This exhibition is of selected works from the late 1990’s to the present and includes the multi-panel work (In Recline, 1998) that is being exhibited for the first time in California.
Painting is one of the Art Department’s fundamental areas of educating new artists. Having exceptional and varied exhibitions of painting in our galleries helps to generate meaningful discussions and lifelong learning about the art of painting. The University Art Gallery’s programing helps to support our faculty’s teaching. It is through faculty recommendations that many exhibitions come to our galleries. I am extremely happy to be able to exhibit Tom’s work for others to enjoy.
I would like to thank the many colleagues that have been instrumental in presenting this exhibition. Tom Monteith for the chance of exhibiting his work, Brad Peatross of the School of the Arts, California State University, Stanislaus for the catalog design and Repro Graphics, California State University, Stanislaus for the printing this catalog. Many thanks to the Instructionally Related Activates Program of California State University, Stanislaus, as well as anonymous donors for the funding of the exhibition and catalogue. Their support is greatly appreciated.
Dean De Cocker, Director University Art Gallery California State University, Stanislaus
ARTIST STATEMENT
. . I am like the earth about twenty-three degrees off, which gives me summer and winter moods, sheds hopes and sprouts them again: what are my hopes: it’s hard to tell what an abstract poet wants . . .
–A. R. Ammons, from Sphere
Studio practice—the making of paintings and other work—seems necessarily to engage with a complete dynamic, a complex interrelated activity of correspondences, and one which always exceeds, by virtue of the thing-aspect of the work, the maker’s own limited intentions and ego-bound concerns.
The work I am making concerns an “in-between”.Though complicating images with contending elements, I am on the lookout for something where some kind of simpler resonant quality is nevertheless discerned and felt. I am on the lookout for something—a particular constellation of effects and associations of mind and heart—that I recognize as resonating with a satisfying sense of mixed feeling—a particular mixed feeling of the present.
An engagement with the various potentialities of “earth” as a figurative form is an ongoing aspect of the work.
2008-2009
flotilla, in-progress photos,
Del Sol, acrylic on canvas, 65” x 76”, 1996
solar system, acrylic on canvas, 99.5” x 132.5”, 2001
eveningland, acrylic on canvas, 78” x 78”, 2007
du soleil, acrylic on canvas, 38.5” x 38.5”, 2003
In Recline, acrylic on canvas & panels, 99.5 x 277”, 1998
detail, In Recline, left panel
detail, In Recline, center panel
detail, In Recline, right panel
details, In Recline, far left panel (top); right top panel (bottom)
flotilla, acrylic on canvas, 51” x 195”, 2008-2009
tule house, ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, 13.5” x 16”, 2012
untitled, 7-1-2019, gouache on paper, 11” x 11”, 2019
untitled, 7-7-2019, gouache on paper, 11” x 14”, 2019
untitled, 2012 (re: earth island), acrylic on duralar, 11” x 14”, 2012
untitled, 2009 (after T.U.), acrylic on panel, 12 x 48”, 2009
citadel, acrylic on panel, 6” x 9”, 2004
untitled, 8-15-2016, acrylic on duralar, 14” x 17”, 2016
untitled, 2012 (re: earth island), acrylic on duralar, 11” x 14”, 2012
untitled, 2011, ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, 15” x 16”, 2011
untitled, 2012 (re: tule house), ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, 14” x 16.5”, 2012
TOM MONTEITH CV
EDUCATION
1995 MFA, Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1990 MA, Art, California State University, Sacramento
1983 BA, Landscape Architecture, Univ. of California, Berkeley; University of California, Davis, 1977-1979
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 afloat, Stan State Art Space, California State University, Stanislaus, CA, Aug 27-Oct 17, (catalog, illus.)
2015 earth island, University Library Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, Sept 8-Dec 19, (catalog, illus.)
2007 rise and fall, JayJay, Sacramento, CA
2004 orbit, JayJay, Sacramento, CA
2001 JayJay, Sacramento, CA
2000 One Capital Center, Rancho Cordova, CA
1998 I-Space, Chicago, IL
1997 Weintraub Thomas Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1989 William H. Cook Gallery, Rancho Cordova, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Sac State College of Arts and Letters Faculty Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum Community Galleries, Sacto., CA
2018 Old Faces, New Spaces—an Exhibition to Honor Oliver Lee Jackson, E Street Gallery & Studios, Sacramento, CA
2016 The Back Room II, JayJay, Sacramento, CA
2016 Sacramento State Art Faculty Exhibition, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
2015 30 Painters to Collect, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2014 Faculty Show, University Library Gallery, CSUS, curated by Diana L. Daniels
2012 Thai-America Art Exhibition 2012, Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
2012 Flatlanders on the Slant, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis CA, (catalog, illus.)
2012 the back room, JayJay, Sacramento, CA (also: Art Stimulus Package, 2009)
2011 now and then: 10th anniversary exhibition, JayJay, Sacramento, CA
2010 San Francisco Fine Art Fair, JayJay Gallery, Fort Mason
2008 Art Department Faculty Show, CSUS University Library Gallery, Sacto., CA (also: Dec 5, 2003-Mar 12, 2004)
2007 Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA, Aug 10-Sept 21
2007 flow Art Fair Miami (JayJay Gallery), December 5-9, concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach
2006 Flatlanders: A Regional Roundup, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA, (catalog, illus.)
2005 JayJay, Sacramento, CA (also: July 7-Aug 7, 2004; Sept 14-Oct 26, 2002; Feb 10-Mar 24, 2001)
2005 Art Shanghai 2005, Shanghai, China
2003 Artists from JayJay, Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA (also: Blurred Vision: Redefining the Landscape; 2002)
2003 (a)Kin, POST, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Linda Day, May 24-June 28
1999 Bedford Gallery, D. Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA.
1998 20th anniversary exhibition, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1998 Yosemite Renaissance XIII, Yosemite Museum Gallery, Yosemite, CA
1997 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, S.F.
1997 Weintraub Thomas Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Apr 8-May 3
1997 Countdown 2000: 5th Annual National Juried Exhibition, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
1997 The Sutter Club, Sacramento, CA
1996 750 Gallery, Sacto., CA, 3-person invitational show (previous group shows in 1987, 1988, 1989)
1995 Redding Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, Redding Museum of Art & History, Redding, CA
1995 I-Space, Chicago, IL, graduate painting exhibition
1995 Krannert Museum, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign, MFA exhibition
1994 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, graduate painting exhibition
1990 Matrix International, Jennifer Pauls Gallery in coop. w/ Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1989 William H. Cook Gallery, Rancho Cordova, CA, CSUS/UCD graduate exhibition
1989 Witt Gallery, CSUS, Sacramento, CA, 2-person show (also: 2-person graduate student show, 1988)
1989 Else Gallery, CSUS, CA: MA Exhibition; and Robinson/Witt Awards Show (also: 1988, 1987, 1986)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Best of 2015”, squarecylinder.com, 02 January 2016
University Library Gallery, “earth island”, CSUS, 2015, (exhibition catalog, illus.; essay, Julia Couzens)
David Roth, “Flatlanders on the Slant @ The Nelson”, squarecylinder.com, 30 July 2012
Richard L. Nelson Gallery, “Flatlanders on the Slant”, (catalog; intro, Renny Pritikin; guest curator, Joy Bertinuson); 2012
David Roth, “Art Stimulus @ JAYJAY”, squarecylinder.com, 11 June 2009.
Festival of New American Music, (poster), CSUS, 2008
Art Ltd.: West Coast Art & Design, Pulse, March 2007
Debra Koppman, Previews, Artweek, February 2007 (on cover: detail of solar system)
Carmel Pine Cone, August 10, 2007
Renny Pritikin, “Flatlanders: A Regional Roundup”, (catalog, illus.), Richard L. Nelson Gallery, 2006
Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, Mar 3, 2016; Sept 25, 2015; Aug 5, 2012; Jan 21, 2011; Mar 30, 2007; July 2006
Joan Waters, Sacramento Magazine, “Art Smart”, March 2006; and Dawn Blunk, “At the Heart of the Art”, Apr 2004
Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, “Space of mind”, March 21, 2004 (review of exhibition, orbit, at JayJay)
Tim White, Sacramento News & Review, “Another World”, Mar 11 ’04
Patricia Beach Smith, The Sacramento Bee [P.S. Around the Arts], October 12, 2003
Doug Harvey, LA Weekly, June 13-19, 2003
JayJay, (gallery catalog, illus.), 2002
Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, Nov 9, 2003; Dec 15, 2003; Sept 29, 2002; Feb 25, 2001; Aug 25, 1996; Apr 15, 1990
Jackson Griffith, Sacramento News & Review, Art Pick of the Week, June 28, 2001
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign, annual publication of the School of Art & Design, 1998. California State Fair, California Works 1996, (exhibition catalog)
On the Town, April 30-May 13, 1996
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS/VISITING ARTIST
Research Sabbatical, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 2013-14
Guest Artist, Thai/America Exchange Program, Silpakorn University, Bangkok & Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Visiting Artist, California State University, Long Beach, CA: April 2009; May 2004; February 2003
Painting Commission (confluence: earth angel, 2003), Napa Hall, California State University, Sacramento, CA; 2003
The Juror’s Award for 2-D media, CA State Fair, California Works
Increase Robinson Memorial Graduate Fellowship Award; and R.W. & Joyce Witt Fellowship Award; CSU, Sacramento, CA
Regent Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
University Library, California State University, Sacramento, CA; Napa Hall, College of Continuing Education, CSUS; Meridian Plaza, Sacramento, CA
TEACHING
2023- Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento
2002-23 Professor, Painting & Drawing, California State University, Sacramento
1999-02 Lecturer, California State University, Sacramento
1992-95 Graduate Instructor, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS
Dr. Britt Rios-Ellis, President
Dr. Richard Ogle, Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs
Dr. James A. Tuedio, Dean, College of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF ART
Martin Azevedo, Associate Professor, Chair
Dean De Cocker, Professor
James Deitz, Lecturer
Daniel Edwards, Associate Professor
Jessica Gomula-Kruzic, Professor
Dr. Alice Heeren, Assistant Professor
Chad Hunter, Lecturer
Dr. Carmen Robbin, Professor
Ellen Roehne, Lecturer
Dr. Staci Scheiwiller, Associate Professor
Susan Stephenson, Associate Professor
Jake Weigel, Associate Professor
Mirabel Wigon, Assistant Professor
Alex Quinones, Instructional Tech II
Matt Hayes, Equipment Technician II
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES
Dean De Cocker, Director Kory Twaddle, Gallery Assistant
SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Brad Peatross, Graphic Specialist II
The Artist Would Like To Thank:
California State University, Stanislaus and the Stan State Art Department, Dean De Cocker and the Gallery Committee, Kory Twaddle, Brad Peatross, Lesley Villalobos, Zehl Day, Peter Gillis, Jasmine Ramos, Elizabeth Hernandez, Carla Contreras, Vanessa Aguilera, Halle Soria, Brittany Dias, Nairoby Mello, Bruce Clarke, Steve Row, Sandra Hoover, Diane and John Monteith, and Melinda Barton.
Tom Monteith - afloat
August 26–October 17, 2024 | Stan State Art Space, California State University, Stanislaus | 226 N. First St., Turlock, CA 95380
200 copies printed. Copyright © 2024 California State University, Stanislaus • ISBN 978-1-940753-88-1
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written permission of the publisher. This exhibition and catalog have been funded by Associated Students Instructionally Related Activities, California State University, Stanislaus.