Organic Matter | Erin Parish, Andrew Casto, Peter Gronquist

Organic Matter: Erin Parish, Andrew Casto, Peter Gronquist

Betsy Eby In The Moment It Was All She Knew, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 50 x 44 inches

Winston Wächter Fine Art 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212) 255-2718 nygallery@winstonwachter.com Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm Cover: Andrew Casto, Acidalium Mare, 2022, Porcelain and white gold, 9 x 9 x 9 inches

Organic Matter | Erin Parish, Andrew Casto, Peter Gronquist July 7th - September 2nd, 2022 Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present Organic Matter, a dynamic exhibition featuring abstract paintings by Erin Parish, ceramic sculptures by Andrew Casto, as well as, lightbox paintings and reflectoglyphs by Peter Gronquist. Working in different mediums, each artist explores their own concepts of nature, time, chaos, and order.

Erin Parish creates deep, layered works of resin and paint that have the power to shift and change depending on the day, light, experiences and mood of the viewer. Parish’s works are wholly inspired by nature and spirituality to create a space of peace. The circle remains an essential element in her work as a symbol of divine energy, compassion, and infinity. She introduces patterns of diamonds that dance and play between the surface and background of the paintings. Parish explores the balance between order and chaos by combining carefully crafted shapes and patterns with freer, irregular expressions in paint. The work Sea Nymph’s Habitat, plays just on the edge of figuration, allowing the mind to identify objects and animals in a playful way that one might find shapes in clouds or patterns in wood.

Andrew Casto also explores ideas of how stress and trauma shape a person, drawing inspiration from nature and geology. His ceramic sculptures are built up over time, layering slips and glazes through multiple firings to create organic, amorphous shapes.

In creating these sculptures, Casto considers how lived experiences of both joy and injury build over time, ultimately coming together to form an imperfect and unique being. Lines of gold and silver thread throughout Casto’s work, gilding areas of stress or excess, and evoking hidden strength and value.

Peter Gronquist works in various medias to explore ways in which light and color can be manipulated, shifted, distorted, and captured. between is a radiating box of light and paint that together create a wide range of shifting hues of soft pinks and vibrant greens that are inspired by the subtle shifting of natural light and the hypnotic power of color. His reflectoglyphs are a newer body of work, the result of an exploration of how personal trauma can bend and shape a person. To make the reflectoglyphs, Gronquist blew up a stainless-steel mirror, creating a contorted and abstract steel shape. This shape still mirrors light, but in a twisted way, changed by the explosion. The graceful reflections evoke the appearance of light bouncing off water. The reflected light was captured on photosensitive paper to create works that immortalize and transform the memory of the traumatic event into energetic shapes.

Organic Matter embraces the tension between personal experiences that shape one’s worldview and the natural world itself that grows and evolves over time. Gronquist reflects on the transformative power of personal trauma, while Casto pushes his medium to the limit, creating imperfect, yet striking ceramic forms. Parish’s deep and meditative paintings fluctuate based on the viewer and viewing environment, exploring the harmony between gesture and geometry.

Andrew Casto Chasmastican, 2022 Porcelain, gold and white gold 5½ x 5 x 18 inches

Erin Parish The Golden Wallpaper, 2022 Oil, acrylic and resin on canvas 48 x 60 inches

Peter Gronquist Reflectoglyph 9, 2021 Light reflected from twisted steel onto black and white photo paper, mounted on wood panel with resin and matte medium 72 x 48 inches

Erin Parish Comfortable with Uncertainty, 2020 Oil, acrylic and resin on canvas 36 x 60 inches

Andrew Casto Sanguinaj, 2022 Porcelain, gold and white gold lusters 8 x 8 x 8 inches

Peter Gronquist Reflectoglyph 8, 2021 Light reflected from twisted steel onto black and white photo paper, mounted on wood panel with resin and matte medium 72 x 48 inches

Peter Gronquist between, 2020 Acrylic, enamel, LED on wood and plexiglass 84 x 60 x 5 inches

Andrew Casto Oxia Palus, 2022 Porcelain, gold and white gold 9 x 7 x 11 inches

Erin Parish Neural Plasticity, 2022 Oil, acrylic and resin on canvas 48 x 60 inches

Erin Parish Sea Nymph’s Habitat, 2021 Oil, acrylic and resin on canvas 36 x 60 inches

Andrew Casto Cebreneia Mundi, 2022 Porcelain, gold and white gold 8½ x 10 x 11 inches

Erin Parish Blue Swirled, 2022 Oil, acrylic and resin on canvas 36 x 36 inches

Erin Parish Reflection by the Pool, A Vibration, 2022 Oil, acrylic and resin on canvas 48 x 60 inches

Peter Gronquist Reflectoglyph 7, 2021 Light reflected from twisted steel onto black and white photo paper, mounted on wood panel with resin and matte medium 72 x 48 inches

Andrew Casto The Jin, 2022 Porcelain, gold and white gold 9½ x 8 x 9 inches

Erin Parish Lightheaded, 2022 Oil, acrylic and resin on canvas 36 x 36 inches

Andrew Casto Le Petit Loup, 2022 Porcelain and gold 9 x 8 x 17 inches

Andrew Casto Acidalium Mare, 2022 Porcelain and white gold 9 x 9 x 9 inches

Erin Parish

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY BORN 2020 Abstract Allegories, Spanierman Modern, Miami Beach, FL 1966 St. Louis, MO Summer Mood, curated by Natasha Schlesinger, Topping Rose House, Easthampton, NY EDUCATION, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES Just the Right Amount, Livingston Gallery, Livingston, NJ 2020 Oolite Covid Relief Grant, Miami, FL 2019 Portfolio Review Series the Laundromat Art Space, Coral MAS Grant, Miami, FL Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL Branches Small Business Grant Full Spectrum: Lynne Cook, Erin Parish, William Rushton, Andra United Way Small Business Grant Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2018 Residency at Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL 2018 Version 2.0, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL 2016 Residency at Bustamante Art Studio, Havana, Cuba Vault, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2001 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, New York 2017 Parish, Parish, Parish, Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit, MI 1997 The Fine Arts Works Center, Provincetown, MA (Fellowship Big Exhibition of Small Works, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, grant from the Hand Hollow Foundation) CA 1991 The Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT (Critic’s Grant) Shift, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 1990 Queens College, Queens, NY Gallery Artists for the XIII Havana Biennial, Bustamante Fine Art, 1988 B.A., Bennington College, Bennington, VT Havana Cuba 1987 Hoch Schule der Kuenste, Berlin, Germany 2016 Fragmented, Gallerie Citi Contemporary, Burlingame, CA Inspire, A juried exhibition at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, SOLO EXHIBITIONS Coral Springs, FL 2017 Meet Me Halfway, Art & Art Gallery, Miami, FL Detroit Abstraction, Janice Charach Gallery, curated by Rick Vian, 2015 Preferred Reality Option #108, Winston Wächter Fine Art, West Bloomfield, MI New York 2015 Creating A Scholar, Museum of Contemporary Art and Reverie Arts, San Francisco, CA Design, with the American Institute of Architects, Miami, FL N21, Havana, Cuba Gallery Artists for the XII Havana Biennial, Bustamante Fine Art, Patz & Hall Winery with Reverie Arts, Sonoma, CA Havana, Cuba 2014 Slow, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2014 Aqua Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL with MQEJ Gallery, Seoul, 2013 Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL Korea Spatial Instruction, Studio Winery, Lake Geneva, WS 2013 Documenta USA, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI 2012 The Only Constant, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York New Selections, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2012 Parish, Parish, Parish, Gruen Galleries, Chicago, IL Balzer ART Projects, Basel, Switzerland 2008 Summer in Chelsea, Winston Wächter Fine Art, 2011 Parallel Universes, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Rise Benefit Exhibition for ECOMB and NextAid at Dream Hotel, New York, NY Intricacies, Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA Miami Beach, FL 2006 Please do not touch, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, Rosenbaum Contemporary Art, Boca Raton, FL

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Ameriprise Financial, New York, NY Barclays Capital, New York, NY Barclays Capital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Cablevision, New York, NY Crystal Cruiselines, Miami, FL Forbare, Richardson, TX The Fontainbleau, Miami Beach, FL Four Seasons, Marrakech, Morocco G.E., Norwalk CT Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, Palo Alto, CA Harbor Beach Mariott, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Hilton, Omaha, NB Holiday Inn, Pensacola, FL The Hyatt, Siesta Key, FL IMF Concordia, Washington, D.C. Johnston Asset Management JW Mariott, Ankara, Turkey Lakewood Capital, New York, NY Mariott Marquis, Miami, FL Mayo Clinic Westin Hotel, Bellevue, WA Westin New York, Times Square, NY Woodruff Company, Columbus, GA MGM Mirage, Las Vegas, NV Moose’s Restaurant, San Francisco, CA Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY New Amsterdam Partners, New York, NY Pfizer Inc., Westchester, NY Potomac Yards Renaissance Suites, Potomac Yards, VA Restaurant Gary Danko, San Francisco, CA Ritz Carlton Hotels, New York, NY Ritz Carlton Hotels, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Royal Carribean Cruise Lines, Miami, FL Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ Tiffany and Co., Singapore

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Andrew Casto BORN 1977

Delaware, Ohio

EDUCATION 2010 M.F.A., The University of Iowa 2009 M.A., The University of Iowa .

2002 Post Baccalaureate Ceramics, The Ohio State University 2000 B.A., Earlham College, Richmond, IN SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Erin Parish, Andrew Casto, Peter Gronquist, Winston Wachter, New York City.

Waters That Are, Museo Civico Di Noto, Sicily.

A Confluence of Coastal Creativity, Albertz Benda Gallery, Los Angeles.

Ceramics Now 2022, Galerie Italienne, Paris.

Radical Pots, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis.

PAD, Paris Art and Design, with Galerie Italienne, Paris.

Think Pink, Public Space One, Iowa City.

SpaceToCurate Benefit for Ukraine, New York City.

Vivacite, Galerie Italienne, Paris.

Intersect Art and Design, with Duane Reed Gallery, Palm Springs, 2021 Andrew Casto/Catherine Howe, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY Order/Chaos, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Expo Chicago Online, Winston Wächter Fine Arts/Hook Arts Invitation Flux, with Odem Atelier, Sotheby’s, Stockholm, Sweden 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, Small Favors, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 2019 Younger Than That Now: Andrew Casto, Joshua Clark, Evan D’Orazo, and Matt Mitros, The White Brick Gallery, Ferndale, MI New Ceramics, Via Del Principe, Catania, Sicily, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Pulse Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair, with Mindy Solomon Gallery The University of Iowa Faculty Biennial The University of Iowa Faculty Exhibition: Seoul National University of Technology, Seoul, Korea A Device for Measuring The Sonification of Everyday Things, concurrent NCECA conference exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA Paddle 8 Locust Projects Auction Collective Design NYC, with Mindy Solomon Gallery Young Masters at Collect 2018, Saatchi Gallery, London Paddle 8 Contemporary Ceramics 2018 Auction 2017 Form Over Function: Ceramic Sculptures by Andrew Casto, Steve Lee, Jeffry Mitchell, Zemer Peled, Kim Simonsson and Dirk Staschke, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2016 Recent Assemblages: Galleria Salvatore Lanteri, Milan, Italy Materiality, Methodology, Metamorphosis: Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition, Kansas City, MO Accessibility by Design, Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition curated by Susan Beiner, Kansas City, MO From There to Here, Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition curated by Kwok-Pong Tso, Kansas City, MO The 72nd Scrips College Ceramic Annual, Claremont, CA 2015 Midwest Life Vest, Walker Art Gallery, The University of Nebraska-Kearney Three Wheel Studio Ceramics Annual Exhibition, Providence, RI The Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics Finalists Exhibition, Zanesville Museum of Contemporary Art, Zanesville, The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR Recent Work

by Andrew Casto, Eutectic Back Room Gallery, Portland, OR Recent Work, Olive Deluce Gallery, Northwest Missouri State University All About Porcelain, The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT Constructed, Invitational exhibition, Eastern Oregon University Clay Center, Vernon Filley Art Museum, Pratt, KS

COLLECTIONS Collections Regidoria de Cultura, El Vendrell, Spain The Arizona State University Museum of Art Ceramics Research Center Centre Culturel d’Andenne, International Ceramics Collection, Andenne, Belgium Foundacio Apelles Fenosa, Terragona/ Catalonia, Spain UNICUM International Collection, Carinthian Gallery of Fine Arts, Gradec, Slovenia The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum, DAO Art Space, Fuping, China Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, USA Maruchu Gallery, Toki City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan SELECTED PRESS 2016 Art LTD, “Beyond the Object: The 72nd Scripps Ceramic Annual,” March/April, 2016.

Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Image feature, February 2016.

2015 49th Annual NCECA Journal, “The Poetics of Growth”, New Ceramic Magazine, “But Why Ceramics?” September/ October 2015, Ceramics Now Magazine, interview and images, Issue 3, June 2014 Seventh Bienale De Ceramica, article by Marius Domingo, critic & juror. 2013 Ceramics Monthly Magazine, mage featured, December 2013.

2011 Ceramics Monthly Magazine, image featured, October 2011 45th Annual NCECA Journal, image featured, March 2011.

2010 University of Iowa Press “The Weight of Knowing,” May 2010.

2007 Ceramics Monthly Magazine, April 2007.

REVIEWS AND FEATURES 2022 Ceramics Monthly, “Exposure” section, Radical Post, Duane Reed Gallery, April 2022 Issue.

2018 Small Art Objects, Fire for Effect, A.I.R. Vallauris Exhibition Catalog, Summer, 2018.

Ceramics Now, Greenwich House Pottery 2017 Exhibition Series Catalog, 2018.

“Andrew Casto, Schoonheid Gebeurt,” Die Kleine K– Issue 40, Summer, 2018.

Seven page feature article written by Mels Boom in Dutch publication. 2017 “The New Zeitgeist of Contemporary Ceramics,” Sotheby’s Institute of Art online journal.

“Inside London’s Newest Contemporary Ceramics Show,” Architectural Digest.

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Peter Gronquist BORN 1979

Portland, OR

EDUCATION 2001 Bachelor of Fine Art, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1998 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Communion (forthcoming), Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin 2021 Line Drawing 3, AND NOW, Belmont Hotel, Dallas Asylum Choir, UNTITLED, ART, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Miami Beach, FL 2020 “Changes,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York Belle Weather, Primary Projects, Miami 2019 “Searcher,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle CHURCH, curated by Nico Wheadon and Dexter Wimberly, Las Ventas, Sharon, CT Ideal Contagion, curated by David Hunt, bitforms gallery, New York 2016 “Refuge,” Joseph Gross Gallery, New York 2015 “All of the Above,” Soze Gallery, Los Angeles 2014 “Make Stuff,” Shooting Gallery, San Francisco “The Great Escape,” Joseph Gross Gallery, New York 2013 “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda,” Shooting Gallery, San Francisco “One in a Million,” Art Now New York 2012 “American Mythic,” Gallery Hijinks, San Francisco 2011 “The Evolution Will be Fabulous,” Gallery 1988, Los Angeles

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 UNTITLED, ART, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Miami Beach, FL 2020 Belle Weather, Primary Projects, Miami, FL 2019 Untitled Miami, Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle Art Fair, Winston Wächter Fine Art 2018 “Summer Dreams,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle “She Collection with Crystal Streets,” Joseph Gross Gallery, Los Angeles “Nantucket,” Samuel Owen Gallery, Nantucket “For you Information,” Joseph Gross Gallery, Los Angeles 2017 “Versailles Now, “Joseph Gross Gallery, San Francisco 2016 Art Market + Design Hamptons, Joseph Gross Gallery, Bridgehampton 2015 Scope New York, Joseph Gross Gallery, New York Art Houston, Joseph Gross Gallery Scope Miami, Joseph Gross Gallery 2014 Scope Miami, Joseph Gross Gallery Pop Austin, Joseph Gross Gallery Scope New York, Joseph Gross Gallery 2013 Scope Miami, White Walls Gallery, Art Now New York 2012 Scope Miami, White Walls Gallery 2009 Pittsfield Museum of Art, Pittsfield, MA SELECTED COLLECTIONS Perez Art Museum Miami Walt Disney Collection Adam Abdala Collection Jordan Schnitzer Collection Sabanci Collection Private Collections in the United States, Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Norway, Italy, Dubai, Australia, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and others.

SELECTED PRESS Poppy Malby, “20 Questions with Peter Gronquist,” GQ Magazine, UK, January 13, 2019 Noah Becker, “Now More Than Ever: Artist Peter Gronquist in Conversation with Noah Becker,” WhiteHot Magazine, October, 2018 “Peter Gronquist,” Design Crush, September 12, 2016 “Refuge,” Juxtapoz. July 2, 2016 Lori Zimmer, “Refuge – Peter Gronquist,” Art Nerd New York, June 7, 2016 Sara Dal Zotto, “Look Twice, Impress Me,” Nasty Magazine, 2016 Jason Basson, “Art Watch | Peter Gronquist,” GQ Magazine, August 20, 2015 Caro, “Peter Gronquist’s ‘All of the Above’ Explores Familiar Themes in New Ways,” Hi-Fructose, August 3, 2015 Anika D. “Color, Form and Depth: All of the Above by Peter Gronquist at Soze Gallery,” Widewalls, July 24, 2015 “Peter Gronquist contemporary art sculptures,” I Lobo You, March 26, 2015 Deianira Tolema, “Interview with American artist Peter Gronquist,” Whitehot Magazine, November, 2014 “Art Chat with Peter Gronquist,” Platinum Cheese, May 3, 2014 “Peter Gronquist Satirizes Hyper-American Culture,” Hyperallergic, New York, June 6, 2013 “Gronquist Brins Your Baroque Ass Back Home,” Arte Fuse, June 9, 2013

SELECTED PRESS Jennifer Polland, Max Rosenberg, “15 New Sculptures, Paintings and Photos That Have the Art World Buzzing,” Business Insider, March 7, 2013 Judy Berman, “Peter Gronquist’s Armed and Branded Taxidermy,” Flavorwire, October 2, 2012 Lara Mikocki, “Branded Taxidermy by Peter Gronquist, Designboom, September 20, 2012 Russ Crest, “Peter Gronquist’s Taxidermy Gun Antlers,” Beautiful Decay, March 7, 2012 Katrina Tan, “Branded Taxidermy by Peter Gronquist,” Trendland, 2012 “Interview with Peter Gronquist,” Experiment with Nature, August 29, 2011 Jenna Wortham, “Gilded Guns, Pac-Man, Grenades Pay Off for Artist,” Wired Magazine, June 11, 2008

Winston Wächter Fine Art 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212) 255-2718 nygallery@winstonwachter.com Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm