12 - 5 p.m. PST
Stan State Art Space is happy to announce the fine art exhibition afloat by Tom Monteith from August 27 - October 17, 2024. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Sunday from 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m. Stan State Art Space is located at 226 N. First Street in downtown Turlock. Free on-street parking is available, and there is no cost to see the exhibition.
The exhibition is composed of selected work from the late 1990’s forward, and features large format acrylic painting—including a multi-panel work (In Recline, 1998) that is being exhibited for the first time in California. The landscape and figurative paintings deal with color, space, light and atmosphere, and emit a distinctly contemporary ethos, in that they pit ambivalent psychological states against recognizable exterior landscapes. An engagement with the various potentialities of “earth” as a figurative form is an ongoing aspect of the work.
Tom Monteith received an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an MA from CSU Sacramento, and a BA from UC Berkeley. His landscape and figurative paintings deal with color, space, light and atmosphere, and emit a distinctly contemporary ethos, in that they pit ambivalent psychological states against recognizable exterior landscapes. An engagement with the various potentialities of “earth” as a figurative form is an ongoing aspect of the work. Exhibitions include I-space (Chicago), Post (Los Angeles), JayJay (Sacramento), Bedford Gallery (Walnut Creek, CA), Krannert Museum (Univ. of Illinois), Nelson Gallery (UC Davis), and Art Centre (Silpakorn Univ., Nakhon Pathom, Thailand). Monteith’s solo exhibition, “earth island”, at Sac State’s University Library Gallery was included in squarecylinder’s “Best of 2015”. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art at California State University, Sacramento, where he taught painting and drawing from 1999-2023; he currently resides in Sacramento, CA.
A reception will occur Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. with an artist talk at 6:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period. The reception is free of cost and open to the public and arts community.
Image caption: Solar System, 2001