Signe Stuart: Evolution
Past exhibition
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Overview
Chasm 1, 2016, acrylic on sewn canvas, 40 x 40 in.Signe Stuart: Evolution
6 - 27 May, 2023
Signe Stuart weaves her personal questions regarding the mysteries of the universe into hand-sewn and acrylic stained canvas work. Stuart's approach to art relies on experimentation with painting materials and form, her paintings subtle shifts of one color into another inviting us to see "everything as a consequence of endless shape-shifting, combining and recombining." This perpetual connectivity extends into her paper constructions - a play of intervals, rhythm, time and presence juggling 'order and chaos' - ultimately leaving the question "What is the nature of Nature?"
Signe Stuart's professional history spans over fifty years, beginning in the early 1960's and since 1972 Stuart has had 18 solo museum exhibitions including those at: the Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD and the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. Her work has also been included in many museum group exhibitions, among them the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN. Stuart's numerous solo gallery shows over this time range geographically from: Jan Cicero, Chicago; Peter M. David, Minneapolis; Kate Ganz, NYC; Anderson/O'Brien, Omaha and William Siegal, Santa Fe.
During her career, Signe has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Painting Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts mural commissions, a South Dakota Arts Council Artist Fellowship and a New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop Fellowship. She received several purchase awards including a Ford Foundation Purchase - Seattle Art Museum. Teaching, lectures and artist residencies include: Professor of Art, South Dakota State University; visiting artist, Williams College, MA; U-Cross Foundation Residency, WY and Cowles Visiting Artist at Grinnell College, IA.
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