Winston Wächter Fine Art 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212) 255-2718 nygallery@winstonwachter.com Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Alicia Brown, I was a queen in my mother’s land, 2022 , Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Roses, Ruffs, and Reflections | Alicia Brown, Claire Partington, Tony Scherman
January 12th - February 25th, 2022
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present Roses, Ruffs, and Reflections, a group exhibition featuring works by Alicia Brown, Claire Partington and Tony Scherman. Each artist employs traditional techniques and historical styles in distinctly different ways that continues the conversation of the deep-rooted constructs of power and oppression that have been seen throughout generations. The works are hauntingly hopeful and carry the strength of persistence, wrapped together with a bit of humor in their visions for the future.
In Imaginary Homelands, Alicia Brown celebrates the perseverance of migrants who have left their home countries either voluntarily or by force. Brown uses portraiture to tell the stories of friends and family from Jamaica residing in the United States. She combines elements from Jamaican culture including native plants, animals, objects, symbols, and idioms with elements from Western art and history. In doing so, Brown examines the duality of who a subject was in their homeland and who they become in order to adapt and survive in a foreign culture. Objects such as Elizabethan ruff collars evoke narratives of power, control, and social status, while native Caribbean plants create an environment of home. In these powerful portraits, Brown celebrates the ingenuity with which immigrants both adapt to and shape their adopted homes.
Claire Partington’s mixed-media ceramic sculptures draw from both traditional and contemporary art practices. Referencing portraiture conventions from throughout art history as well as contemporary social media, Partington humorously comments on constructs of gender and power. Echo and Narcissus are a pair of sculptures inspired by Greek Mythology. Echo, a mountain nymph who could only repeat the last word that she heard and Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection, are depicted as teenagers absorbed in their phones. These porcelain and earthenware figures reference not only antiquity but fashionable sculpture from the 18th century. In these and other works, Partington playfully mixes up imagery from antiquity, social media, art history, folklore, and fashion to prompt questions about interpretation and narrative, particularly about women, and particularly about power.
Tony Scherman works in the ancient technique of encaustic by layering wax, oil paint, and pigments to build deeply expressive paintings. His series, For all the wise women persecuted as “witches”, is dedicated to women throughout history to the present day who have been punished for their wisdom, progressiveness, or determination. Each piece depicts two roses, illuminated in an ethereal yellow-green light against a swirling dark ground. The flowers stand out against a depth of darkness as petals, leaves, and other elements play and shift along the surface of the painting. The roses are a tribute, a hopeful beacon of perseverance against the oppression of forward-thinking women.
Alicia Brown
Foreign sweetie, 2022 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches
For All the Wise Women Persecuted as “Witches” (22043), 2022 Encaustic on canvas 42 x 45 inches
Tony Scherman
Alicia Brown A far cry from home, 2022 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches
Claire
PartingtonNarcissus, 2022
Glazed earthenware and gold plated brass 11 x 15½ x 10 inches
For All the Wise Women Persecuted as “Witches” (22048), 2022 Encaustic on canvas 28 x 24 inches
Tony Scherman
Tony Scherman
For All the Wise Women Persecuted as “Witches” (22041), 2022 Encaustic on canvas 42 x 42 inches
For All the Wise Women Persecuted as “Witches” (22036), 2022 Encaustic on canvas 36 x 36 inches
Tony Scherman
Alicia Brown
Just got off the banana boat, 2022 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches
Princess from ghetto paradise, 2022 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches
Alicia Brown
Tony Scherman
For All the Wise Women Persecuted as “Witches” (22047), 2022 Encaustic on canvas 30 x 30 inches
Claire Partington
Echo, 2022
Porcelain and epoxy putty 13 x 12½ x 7½ inches
I was a queen in my mother’s land, 2022 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches
Alicia Brown
Tony Scherman
For All the Wise Women Persecuted as “Witches” (22042), 2022 Encaustic on canvas 42 x 48 inches
BORN
1981 St. Ann, Jamaica
EDUCATION, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2019 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant
2017 Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency
2017 Dawn Scott Memorial Award, 2017 Jamaica Biennial
2014 LCU Fund for Women Education Grant
2014 Master in Fine Arts, MFA, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2013 LIA Artists’ Residency, Leipzig, Germany
2013 New York Academy Student Service Scholarship
2013 Joan Brady Grant
2013 LCU Fund for Women Education Grant
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA, Painting, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2004 Two Bronze medals award, Jamaica Cultural Development art competition
2003 Bronze medal and merit certificate award, Jamaica Cultural Development art competition
2003 Diploma, Art Education, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2002 Master of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1990 Bachelor of Arts, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 ‘What about the men?’ UUU Art Collective, Rochester New York, USA
2019 ‘What if the man in the new world needs mimicry as design, both as defence and lure?’ Virago Gallery, Seattle Washington, 2016 ‘Copy and Placed’, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Beyond seeing. M Contemporary Gallery, Detroit, USA
Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection, Victoria Gallery and Museum, UK
2021 Transformation: objects and images in relation, Clemente Centre, New York, NY
One World: International Women Artists of Florida, Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, Florida Parallels and Peripheries: Practice and Presence,New York Academy of Art
Contemporary Figuration, Virtual exhibition, Abend Gallery, Colorado, USA
Prizm Art Fair - Virtual Exhibition, Miami Florida
2020 Contemporary Figuration, Virtual exhibition, Abend Gallery Miniature Show, Virtual exhibition, Abend Gallery, USA Painting the Figure Now, Wasau Museum of Contemporary Art, USA Polycephaly, Virtual Exhibition, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, New Mexico, USA Paint: medium as power in time of crisis, Barrett Art Centre, New York Summer Exhibition 2020, Virtual show, New York Academy of Art, NY
2019 Take five, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, USA
2018 Prizm Art Fair, Alfred DuPont Building, Miami, USA Real Men, New York Academy of art, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Miami, US
Little But Fierce, ChaShaMa, New York, NY, USA Conflicted Perceptions, Grovesnor Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2017 Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica Single Fair, Highline stages, New York, NY
LCU Fund for Women Education fundraising show, Riverpark, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Young Talent, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
LCU Fund for Women Education fundraising show, Riverpark, New York, NY
2014 NYAA Summer Show, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY Painting at the Metropolitan Museum Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Hudson Rising Project, New York, NY LCU Fund, Student Mixer show, New York, NY
2013 Leipzig Residency Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
LIA Summer Show, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Extreme Drawings, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Deck the walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Experimental Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, 2012 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Single Fare, RH Gallery, New York, NY Show of Heads, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Deck the Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY Shout and 4play, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica Art Fresh, Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2011 Quartet, Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Group Show, Betty Bolivar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Passion, Pegasus Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica, Rejuvenate, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
2009 Question me Black, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica Impressions in Blue, Studio 174, Kingston, Jamaica
2003 Final year Show, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2002 First Time, Pegasus Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Claire PartingtonBORN
1973 London, United Kingdom
EDUCATION
1995 Bachelor of Fine Art Sculpture, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
December 2022 Winter Coat, Arusha Gallery, Bruton, UK
June 2022 Claire Partington at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
February 2022 En Plein Air, Winston Wächter, Seattle, US
June 2021Britainton, James Freeman Gallery, London, UK
January 2020 Gods and Monsters, Untitled, Art. San Francisco, US
2019 “The Hunting Party,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
“Tea Journey: From the Mountains to the table,” Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
2018 “Taking Tea,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Material Earth: Myth, Material and Metamorphosis,” Messums, Wiltshire, UK
2017 “doing identity,” Kunstmuseum, Bochum, Germany
“A Cautionary Tale,” James Freeman Gallery, London, UK
2016 “T-Shirt Girls,” Joe Bar, Seattle, WA
“I Prefer Life,” Weser Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
“Divine Decadence,” Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Belgium
“My Blue China,” Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 “SWEET 18,” Kasteel d’Ursel, Belgium
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
September 2022 Historical Fiction, KochXBos, Ansterdam, NL May 2022 Bookworks, James Freeman Gallery, london, UK September 2021 London Making Now, Museum of London, UK April 2021 Fairyland, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US March 2020 Cranach: Artist and innovator, Compton Verney, UK September 2019 Claire Partington & Charles Freger, James Freeman Gallery, London, UK February 2018 Material : Earth. Myth Material Metamorphosis, Messums, UK
November 2017 doing identity. Die Sammlung Reydan Weiss, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
May 2016 I Prefer Life, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Germany March 2016 Divine Decadence, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Belguim September 2015 Hey Act III, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France June 2015 My Blue China, Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland May 2015 SWEET 18, Kasteel d’Ursel, Belgium October 2013 Im Dialog mit dem Barok, Neues Schloss Schleißheim, Germany
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
V&A Museum, UK Museum of London, UK Seattle Art Museum, US Reydan Weiss, Germany Charles Saumarez Smith, UK James and Maylis Grand, UK 21C Museum Hotels, US
PUBLICATIONS
Claire Partington: Historical Fiction. Claire Parington, Danielle
Thom, Amy Orrock. KochXBos, Amsterdam, 2022
Mastering Sculpture: The figure in clay. Cristina Córdova. Quarto, New York, 2022
Teaching Contemporary Art With Young People. Julia Marshall. Teachers College Press, New York, 2021
Handbuilt Ceramics. Jo Taylor. Crowood Press, Wiltshire, 2021
Céramique : 90 artistes contemporains. Charlotte Vannier and Véronique Pettit Laforet. Pyramyd Editions, Paris, 2019
The New Age of Ceramics. Hannah Stouffer. Gingko Press, California, 2016
AWARDS
2022 Walker Art Gallery / Contemporary Art Society Commission
2018 Seattle Art Museum, Porcelain Room Commission
2018 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant
Tony SchermanBORN
1950 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
EDUCATION, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
1974 Royal College of Art, London, England, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021Tony Scherman: The Rape of Leda, Winston Wäcter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2020Digital Exhibition: Tony Scherman. From the Archives, Winston Wachter, New York, NY
2019Tony Scherman: Pictures from Rome, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
Tony Scherman: Heroes, Ghosts and Dreams, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2018 Tony Scherman: Pictures from Rome – Prologue, The Front Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Tony Scherman, Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada
2016 Difficult Women, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
Tony Scherman, Galeria de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec,Canada
2015Difficult Women, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA
2014 Difficult Women, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Difficult Women, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany
2013 Tony Scherman: Bethune in China, Eastation Gallery, Beijing
Tony Scherman, Eastation Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Tony Scherman: The Cream of Denmark, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
Tony Scherman: New Paintings, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2012 Tony Scherman: Works on Paper, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 New Erotic, Caviar 2.0, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Setting the Table: Still-Life and Its After Effects, Confederation Center for the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada Winter Group Exhibition, Elan Fine Art, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Dance Me to the End of Love, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
Realisms: Canadian Art, 1850 to the Present, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada
2020 Objects of Beauty: a Conversation Between Fine Art and Fine Jewelry, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2019 Now & Then, The Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Masterclass, Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, 2018 Making Marks: Works on Paper, Juditch & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Living, Building, Thinking: Art and Expressionism, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2017 About Face, Presented by New York Academy of Art, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY 1st International Triennial of Graphic Arts in Livno, The Franciscan Museum and Gallery Gorica-Livno, Bosnia
The Front Gallery, Spring Exhibition, Edmonton, AB Nature Rearranged, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
The Big Picture, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC The Looking Glass, Art Gallery Alberta, Edmontob, AB
2016 Portraits, Self and Others (It’s Complicated), McIntosh Gallery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Reframing the Art of Canada, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
2015 Spring Group Show, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Passions of the Eye, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
COLLECTIONS
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Art Gallery of Great Victoria, Victoria, BC Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, ON Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON Art Museums, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, PQ Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
Canada Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, ON
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal Arts Council of England, London, UK
Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK Salford Museum, Salford, UK Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
F.R.A.C. Ile de France, Paris, France
Lieu d’art contemporain, Sigean, France Schlossmuseum Murnau, Germany
Fundación Privada Sorigué, Lleida, Spain
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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