William Stewart

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Emily Harvey Foundation residency award (2015) Venice, Italy, and The Watermill Center residency award (2017). Williams legacy includes a lifetime of teaching, “ I work with the individual student to find their core.
I try to bring that out, the sensibility that the student has, not transferring my sensibility to them.”

William Stewart is most certainly an abstract expressionistic gestural landscape painter, but categorizing Williams work, in the canon of art history, feels like trapping a hummingbird.

William’s paintings read like an open window, light pouring through his confident, lyrical brush strokes. Each stroke with its own personality, hovering, rising and falling
like a freshly written cadenza.

Oaxaca can be credited with bringing Williams work to life. For the past three years, the land and its people have been Williams inspiration. To inform...

M.F.A. University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1962
Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Drawing, Architecture] Department
B.F.A. University of Texas, Austin, TX 1960 Seminars Attended International Artist’s Seminars
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ Summer session 1961 and 1962

Solo Exhibits:
2017 Watermill Foundation, Water Mill, New York Residency and Exhibition March 15th-31st
2010
Taos Paintings, Prince Street Gallery, New York, N.Y. January 5th-30th
Exhibition will travel to CSPS, Contemporary Art Center Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2010
1985 Old Jail Art Museum, Albany, TX 1979 Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Regional Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico
1978 Pergola Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico 1970 Rudolph Zwirner Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1969 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1963 Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Group Exhibits:
2015 2012
2007
2005 2002
1996 – 1999 1996 – 1998 1992 – 1995 1990
1987
1985
1976
1971
1965
"Pressing Through Time" Hulse/Warman, Gallery, Taos, NM Oct, 04 - Nov, 29 2015
"Taos Contemporary" Center Visual Arts, Denver, CO
May, 3 - Aug 11 2012
“Works on Paper”, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, May 22 – June 16.
“On Board: Zeuxis and Guests”, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY, June 21 – July 27.
“Watercurrents,” Kouros Gallery, New York, NY, July 27 – August 19 Plaza Gallery, Vail, CO
The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Collins-Pettit Gallery, Taos, NM
Bengert MacRae Gallery, Wyckoff, NJ
R.B. Raven Gallery, Ranchos de Ta...