Squeak Carnwath, Elvis, 2017, Oil and Alkyd with 24-Karat Gold Leaf

on Canvas over Panel, 70 x 70 Inches

Sloan Miyasato Fine Art Installation View

Never one to shy away from making headlines, Squeak Carnwath is gracing the pages of Nob Hill Gazette as one of four San Francisco Bay Area art icons.

Her distinctive style has long attracted attention with its riot of color, text, patterns, and identifiable images. But for all their humor and playfulness, her paintings also give us pause. Drawing upon the philosophical and mundane experiences of daily life, Carnwath delves deep into our collective subconscious.

Pants on Fire, her most recent series, follows in the footsteps of her earlier works, only on steroids. These are crazy making. We laugh or scream louder and are left speechless. What can you say? Painting them was cathartic for Carnwath who (spoiler alert) in her studio listens nonstop to news and music.

Music has clearly taken center stage with Carnwath’s other recent body of work the Song Paintings. “Basically I am searching for the perfect playlist. It’s fun to turn that into a painting. I love how the song titles turn the works into one big poem.”

Hanging alongside her Liar works and a group of her earlier hits, drop by Sloan Miyasato soon to see these wonderful paintings curated by Michelle Bello. Why?
They sing.

Squeak Carnwath, Little Baby, 2016, Oil and Alkyd on Canvas over Panel, 30 x 30 Inches

Squeak Carnwath, Pants on Fire 59, 2017, Oil and Alkyd on Clayboard, 20 x 16 Inches

Squeak Carnwath, Pants on Fire 32, 2017, Oil and Alkyd on Canvas, 12 x 12 Inches

Squeak Carnwath, Pants on Fire, Oil and Alkyd on Canvas,
Approx. 12 x 12 Inches Each Variable, Available Individually

Squeak Carnwath

Squeak Carnwath draws upon the philosophical and mundane experiences of daily life in her paintings and prints, which can be identified by lush fields of color combined with text, patterns, and identifiable images. A Professor Emerita at the University of California, she has received numerous awards including the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award for Individual Artists from the Flintridge Foundation. She has exhibited widely throughout the country and her work is held in significant public collections including the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, Microsoft Corporation, Rene and Veronica de Rosa Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.