Squeak Carnwath
Artist Works
52 x 50 inches Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel
Artist Bio
Click HERE to see the the video Squeak Carnwath: Imagination is the Mind's Freedom made on the occassion of her exhibition Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object at the Oakland Museum of California
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Click HERE to read Gay Swan's review of Squeak Carnwath's exhibition Painting is No Ordinary Object at the Oakland Museum of California
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Click HERE to read Wendy Edelstein's feature article in the UC Berkeley News entitled: Squeak Carnwath: Bunnies, boring objects, and the guilt-free zone
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Squeak Carnwath’s paintings are ruminations on time, place, and human presence. Within her images Carnwath constructs a unique vocabulary of pictographs and hieroglyphs that constitute a personal index of meaning. Her distinctive and recognizable style combines diaristic elements with universal or existential themes. Squeak’s sumptuously painted classic abstractions are accentuated with scrawling text and representational flourishes on abstract fields of color expressing deeply personal, sociopolitical and spiritual concerns.
The recipient of numerous awrds including the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Carnwath's work has been the subject of two monographs: Squeak Carnwath: Lists, Observations & Counting published in 1996, and Squeak Carnwath: Painting is No Ordinary Object, published in 2009.
Ms. Carnwath's paintings are represented in important museum, public and corporate collections including:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Oakland Museum Of California, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, ME
M.I.T., List Visual Art Center, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Rutgers University Fine Arts Collection, Brunswick, NJ
San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA
City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Richard L. Nelson Gallery and The Fine Arts Collection, UC Davis, CA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Bank of America Corporation Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
AirTouch Communications Collections, San Francisco, CA
Barkley and Evergreen, Kansas City, MO
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, IA
Robertson, Stephens & Company, San Francisco, CA
Philip Morris Companies, Inc., New York, NY
Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO
Benziger Family Winery, Glen Allen, CA
Persis Corporation, Honolulu, HI
Rene and Veronica di Rosa Collection, Napa, CA