Winston Wächter Fine Art: Seattle Art Fair 2016

Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle Art Fair 2016

Aug 4–7 Booth D15

For the Seattle Art Fair 2016, Winston Wächter Seattle will focus on process driven artists Zaria Forman, Ethan Murrow, Andreas Kocks, Annie Morris, Miya Ando and Andrew Casto. Each has a deeply personal relationship with their medium and material, creating ethereal paintings, gravity defying sculpture and organic forms. The conversation between these artists urges us to look beyond the expected.

Winston Wächter is a fine art gallery with exhibition spaces in Seattle and New York City. Established in 1995 by Stacey Winston Levitan and Christine Wächter-Campbell, the gallery represents over thirty contemporary artists who work in a variety of media including painting, photography, sculpture, and multimedia. With over thirty years of experience, Stacey Winston-Levitan brings a depth of knowledge of the arts community, and the unique perspective of the Pacific Northwest.

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Zaria Forman, Risting Glacier, South Georgia, No. 1, 2016, Soft pastel on paper, 84 x 144 inches

Ethan Murrow is a dreamer, a storyteller. His scenes are well thought out adventures in his mind, full of character and humanity.

What makes Murrow’s artworks more extraordinary is his chosen vehicle to share these stories. Each composition is meticulously detailed, with lifelike precision in graphite or pen. No detail is omitted and there is no room for error. Murrow’s tireless protagonists press on in these worlds with the same care that is taken in creating them. Murrow’s artworks are tributes to mankind’s perseverance, while simultaneously questioning how we view ownership and our relationship to nature.

Murrow’s artwork is included in prestigious collections, such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Clay Center for Arts and Sciences, and the Facebook Corporate Collection. In June of 2015 Murrow was honored with a mural commission for the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall at the Institute for Contemporary Art Boston, which will run through November of 2016. In July of 2016 Murrow will create another large scale mural for the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, on view until October 30. We are also proud to announce that in 2018 the Nevada Museum of Art has honored Murrow with a solo exhibition.

Ethan Murrow Carnivores 2016 Graphite on paper 48 x 36 inches

“My current body of work involves an investigation into dialogues concerning extant negative forces in our lives, and to what degree the phenomenological ramifications of responsibilities and stress shape us physically, mentally, and emotionally. Within this inquiry, alternative and diverse construction methods are emphasized as tools of fresh, genuine expression in the creation of dynamic assemblages of great fragility. My work asserts that it is possible for our daily vexations to illuminate the power of the present moment – something we all too often fail to notice.

At its best, this investigation becomes collaborative in nature, and includes input from other artists to assist in problem solving, critical feedback on the relevance of one technique over another, and in the fabrication of unique construction elements. I often appropriate the discarded remnants of others’ work into my own; a type of studio “sampling” in the electronica sense. My best work becomes intertwined with the sentiments of those around me…” - Andrew Casto Andrew Casto received his B.A. from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and his M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from The University of Iowa. Casto is currently an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Kansas State University. He was a 2011-2012 longterm artist in residence, and the 2011 MJD fellow at The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art in Helena, Montana. He has exhibited work internationally in Spain, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Belgium, China, and Japan. Casto was awarded the second place award in the 2013 VII Bienalle International de Ceramic, in El Vendrell Spain, and the 2010 FuLe Prize by the International Ceramic Magazine Editors Association in Fuping, China. He was recently selected as a recipient of a 2015 Emerging Artist award by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

Andrew Casto, Assemblage 83: 15x12x15�, ceramic, luster, 2015

Opposite page: detail

Andrew Casto, Assemblage 108: 14x10x9�, Ceramic, Gold Luster, 2016

Miya Ando is an American artist whose metal canvases and sculpture articulate themes of contradiction and juxtaposition of ideas.

The foundation of Ando’s practice is the transformation of surfaces. A descendant of Bizen sword makers, she was raised among sword smiths and Buddhist priests in a temple in Okayama, Japan. Applying traditional techniques of her ancestry, she skillfully transforms sheets of burnished industrial steel, using heat and chemicals, into ephemeral abstractions suffused with subtle gradations of color. She says: “I have a deep appreciation for the dynamic properties of metal and its ability to reflect light. Metal simultaneously conveys strength and permanence and yet in the same instant can appear delicate, fragile, luminous, soft, ethereal.

The medium becomes both a contradiction and juxtaposition for expressing notions of evanescence, including ideas such as the transitory and ephemeral nature of all things, quietude and the underlying impermanence of everything.”

Miya Ando received a bachelor degree in East Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and attended Yale University to study Buddhist iconography and imagery. Ando is the recipient of many awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012. Her work has been exhibited extensively all over the world, including a recent show curated by Nat Trotman of the Guggenheim Museum. Miya Ando has produced numerous public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot tall commemorative sculpture in London built from World Trade Center steel which is installed permanently at Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Her large-scale installation piece ‘Emptiness the Sky’ (Shou Sugi Ban) is featured in the 56th Venice Biennale, in the ‘Frontiers Reimagined’ Exhibition at the Museo Di Palazzo Grimani.

Miya Ando Evening San Diego 2014 48 x 48 inches Dye, Pigment, Aluminum

Miya Ando Cloud 49.5 2016 Ink on Stainless Alucore 49 x 49 inches

Miya Ando Cloud 49.3 2016 Ink on Stainless Alucore 49 x 49 inches

Morris’ sculptures are towers shaped from plaster; sand, and painted with raw pigment to resemble a threedimensional artist’s palate. Inspired by her strength from personal struggles, Morris chooses to focus on the hopefulness and vibrancy of life. The seemingly weightless forms are a metaphor for pure joy and the ability to conquer the impossible. Each layer of her towers teeters over the other, threatening to fall, yet gently supporting each other’s balance.

Since completing her degree from École des Beaux-Arts Paris, Morris has exhibited at The Royal Academy, London; Baku MoMA, Azerbaijan and The New Art Gallery, Walsall and Tate Gallery, St Ives.

Annie Morris Stack 8 (Viridian Green) 2015 Carved foam core, sand, pigment, steel and concrete base 116 x 19 x 19 inches

Annie Morris Stack 8 (Studio Blue Dark) 2015 Carved foam core, sand, pigment, steel and concrete base 121.25 x 17 x 17 inches

Annie Morris Stack 8 (Iron Oxide Green) 2015 Carved foam core, sand, raw pigment, steel and concrete base 77.2 inches x 13 x 13 inches

German artist Andreas Kocks formally studied both architecture and sculpture. His largescale installation works merge those worlds with sweeping paper brushstrokes, transforming the space in which they reside. Using only cut paper, Kocks uses the world around him as his canvas and thick watercolor paper as his medium. “Paint” leaps from wall to wall, in swirling dances and energetic bursts. Kocks is able to manipulate the paper to simultaneously appear substantial and delicate. Each artwork changes before the viewer, as you move about the room with bouncing light transforming your perspective. Kocks demands participation and provides something uniquely interactive with the most familiar of materials.

Andreas Kocks was born in Oberhausen, Germany and received his MFA in Sculpture from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and his MA in education at the University of Düsseldorf. In 2006 he was awarded a Pollock -Krasner Foundation fellowship. In addition to exhibiting at museums and galleries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, England, and the United States, he has received numerous commissions from private and public clients.

2014 Graphite on watercolor paper on wood 67.5 x 48.5 x 4 inches

Andreas Kocks Pleased to Meet You (#1464D) 2014 Drawing on watercolor paper on wood 46.5 x 35.5 x 3 inches

Andreas Kocks, Kind of Gentle (#1462G), 2014, Graphite on watercolor paper on wood, 35.5 x 46.5 x 3 inches