Distilled Presence: Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart

DISTILLED PRESENCE

Judy Tuwaletstiwa Dana Newmann Signe Stuart

DISTILLED PRESENCE

Judy Tuwaletstiwa Dana Newmann

Signe Stuart

July 2 - July 30, 2022

Pie Projects is delighted to present Distilled Presence , an exhibition featuring the works of three celebrated Santa Fe women artists: Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart, and Judy Tulwaletstiwa.

Throughout their career, the three artists have pursued a path of human connections, expressing through their art the essence of our deeply human search for meaning, joy, and beauty. “When intelligence matures and lodges securely in the mind, it becomes wisdom. When wisdom is integrated with life and issues out in action, it bec omes pure and devotional” wrote C. Rajagopalachari in his commentary of an 8th century vedantic poem. Each artist in her own unique way, has pursued a path of technical mastery of medium and a metaphysica l distillation of content and intention.

Minimal and sublime yet deeply visceral, this body of work by Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart, and Judy Tulwaletstiwa provides us the occasion to pause and contemplate the essences of relationships and ideas.

JUDY TUWALETSTIWA

“Where does art come from? How do I tease apart process, a complex spider web of relationship that transcends time and space…perhaps I begin by writing about source?”

- Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Santa Fe’s beloved artist Judy Tuwaletstiwa returns to Pie Projects with several works of kiln fired glass on canvas. Distilled to the essence of meaning, each artwork is a conversation between deli cate textures and evocative forms: an intuitive and profound act of storytelling.

A celebrated artist with a long career of residencies, exhibitions, and collections to her name, Judy Tuwaletstiwa received her BA in English Literature from UC, Berkeley in 1962, and her MAT in English Literature from Harvard University in 1963. Her art lives in private, public, and museum collections. Special editions of her three books, including her 2016 book, Glass, published with Radius Books, reside in libraries such as the Corning Museum of Glass’ Rakow Library and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

“In 1972, learning to weave tapestry in Edinburgh, Scotland, recognizing, through what I feel in my body as I weave, that weaving is the basis for text, the threads an early and essential form of writing, of recording. Later, I discover that text and texture grew from the same root, texere, to weave.”

- Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Text. To Weave, 2011 Glass on Magnani paper on canvas 20 x 30 in.

2, 2021

Glass and acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 in.

Text 4, 2017

Two-color lithograph A/P

Paper size 20 x 38 in.

Frame 27 x 45 in.

“In the 1980’s, at Hovenweep National Monument, I lie outside my tent in my sleeping bag. Waking up throughout the night, I watch the magical emerald sisters, the Pleiades, dance across the October sky.”

- Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Pleiades #1 + #2, 2021

Glass and acrylic on canvas

12 x 36 in. each

Pleiades

Glass and

12 x 36

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“In 2017, while visiting Florence, Italy, after being on press in Verona with Radius Books, I fall in love with the Renaissance paintings of the Madonna, her drapery and her life-giving breasts. I remember how wonderful it was to nurse my babies.

When we return home, I make plaster casts that refl ect the shape of the young Madonna’s breasts. I use these to slump my sheets of glass as I think about Innocence.”

- Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Mother Earth - Father Sky, 2021 Glass on canvas

Diptych, each panel 12 x 48 in.

PRESENCE • JUDY TUWALETSTIWA

DANA NEWMANN

Described as one of New Mexico’s cultural treasures, Dana Newmann is well known for her surrealist collages and exquisite cabinets of curiosity. This show presents some of her assemblages made of thorns or recycled antique piano keys. Her compositions play on our perception of form and shadows and the inherent patterns between found and repurposed objects. Dana Newmann attended California College of Arts and Crafts (California School of Fine Arts) and studied Drawing with Richard Diebenkorn. A graduate of Mills College, she earned her BFA while studying painting with Italian abstractionist Afro Basaldella. Her work is in the permanent collections of several museums, including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, th e New Mexico Capitol Art Foundation, and in El Archivero, Mexico City.

Ivory I - Seton Village (large), 2022 Recycled antique piano keys 17.75 x 15.75 in.

Terra Incognita 1, 2006

Vintage photos (paper, acetate, negatives) on hand-made Nepalese paper 29.5 x 38.5 in.(framed)

Ivory I + II - Seton Village , 2022

Recycled antique piano keys 12.5 x 8.25 in. each (framed)

Thorns I - III - Seton Village , 2022 Thorns and shadows in dep-bezel frame 18 x 14.5 in. each (framed)

SIGNE STUART

What is the nature of Nature? Why are things the way they are? Signe Stuart has spent her life exploring these questions through her art. “My making process relies on both intuition and intellect, juggles the uncertainties between concepts of order and chaos, and acknowledges paradox and relativity.” Stuart’s work with sewn and acrylic stained canvasses began in the early 1960s.

Her mesmerizing paintings offer subtle shifts of colors punctuat ed by incandescent lines or arcs which on close inspection reveal small ridges that have been meticulously stitched and painted. Stuart was featured in 18 solo museum exhibitions, received several awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Painting Fellowship, and was a professor of art at South Dakota State University.

Moments Of Is 2 , 2021 Acrylic on sewn canvas 20 x 210 in.

Moving Through , 2021

Acrylic on sewn canvas

panels)

Into Thin Air, 2022

Acrylic on sewn canvas

70 x 30 in.

PRESENCE • SIGNE STUART

One

Text. To Weave, 2011

Glass on Magnani paper on canvas

20 x 30 in. (JTW026)

Text 2, 2021

Glass and acrylic on canvas

30 x 40 in. (JTW002)

Text 4, 2017

Two-color lithograph A/P

Paper size 20 x 38 in.

Frame 27 x 45 in. (JTW025)

JUDY TUWALETSTIWA

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Pleiades #1, 2021

Glass and acrylic on canvas

12 x 36 in. (JTW014)

Pleiades #2, 2021

Glass and acrylic on canvas

12 x 36 in. (JTW015)

Pleiades #3, 2021

Glass and acrylic on canvas

12 x 36 in. (JTW016)

Pleiades #4, 2021

Glass and acrylic on canvas

12 x 36 in. (JTW017)

Mother Earth - Father Sky, 2021

Glass on canvas

Diptych, each panel 12 x 48 in. (JTW027)

JUDY TUWALETSTIWA

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Ivory I - Seton Village (large), 2022

Recycled antique piano keys

17.75 x 15.75 in. (DN005)

Terra Incognita 1, 2006

Vintage photos (paper, acetate, negatives) on hand-made Nepalese paper

29.5 x 38.5 in.(framed) (DN009)

Ivory I + II - Seton Village , 2022

Recycled antique piano keys

12.5 x 8.25 in. each (framed) (DN007, DN008)

DANA NEWMANN

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Thorns I - Seton Village , 2022

Thorns and shadows in dep-bezel frame

18 x 14.5 in. each (framed) (DN001)

Thorns II - Seton Village , 2022

Thorns and shadows in dep-bezel frame

18 x 14.5 in. each (framed) (DN002)

Thorns III- Seton Village , 2022

Thorns and shadows in dep-bezel frame

18 x 14.5 in. each (framed) (DN003)

DANA NEWMANN

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Moments Of Is 2 , 2021

Acrylic on sewn canvas

20 x 210 in. (see page 28 for full image) (SS008)

Moving Through , 2021

Acrylic on sewn canvas

50 x 94 in. (5 panels) (SS005)

Into Thin Air, 2022

Acrylic on sewn canvas

70 x 30 in. (SS007)

SIGNE STUART

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One 1, 2018

Acrylic on sewn canvas

20 x 16 in. (SS006)

Adrift, 2020

Acrylic on sewn canvas

20 x 75 in. tryptich (SS004)

SIGNE STUART

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Copyright Pie Projects Contemporary Art 2022

Artworks Copyright Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart 2022

Design: C Alex Clark

Cover: Signe Stuart, Into Thin Air (detail), 2022

pg. 10-11, 14-15, 16-17 photos: Eric Swanson

pg. 21 photo: Jamie Hart

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