Charles Stewart
suchuwato68@gmail.com
(510)652-0970
Solo Exhibitions
1986 NHK Gallery, Utsunomiya, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Blue Line Arts, “Crocker Kingsley National Art Competition,” Roseville, California
2025 GearBox Gallery, “Abstraction NOW!” Oakland, California
2025 San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild International Juried Exhibition, San Diego, California
2024 1202 Contemporary, “Art of Clay: Push,” Chico, California
2024 Naturalist Art Gallery, “Conversation Piece,” District of Columbia
2023 Blue Line Arts, “Off Center,” Roseville, California
2023 San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild Spring Online Exhibition, San Diego,California
2022 Blue Line Arts, “Crocker Kingsley National Art Competition,” Roseville, California
2022 Sanchez Art Center, “Left Coast Annual,” Juror’s Award of Merit, Pacifica , California
2021 Arts Benicia, “That Which Surrounds You”, Juried Exhibition, Benicia, California
2020 Epperson Gallery of Ceramic Art, National Clay Competition, Crockett, California
2020 de Young Museum, “de Young Open”, San Francisco, California
2020 Pence Gallery, “Slice”, Juried Exhibition, 3rd place, Davis, California
1992 Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
1986 NHK Gallery, Utsunomiya-shi, Tochigi-ken, Japan
1985 AT Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Open Studios, San Francisco, California
1981 Jetwave, San Francisco, California
1976 University of California, Davis, California
Selected Private Collections
Angela Mongird, Seattle, Washington
Alan Porter, San Francisco, California
Elizabeth Easton, Oakland, California
Gene Agress, Berkeley, California
Tom Umeda, Berkeley, California
Scott Forsman, Half Moon Bay, California
David Van Sickle, New York, New York
J.T. Krueger, New York, New York
Craig Coleman, New York, New York
Larry Jones, Houston, Texas
Shira Sternberg, Bennington, Vermont
Tadaaki Masagata, Ujiie, Japan
Eiko Kashijuku, Utsunomiya, Japan
Theater
1987 The Lamplighters, San Francisco, California, Set design and fabrication
1983 One Act Theater, San Francisco, California, Set design and fabrication
Bibliography
“2022 Emerging Artists,” Ceramics Monthly, May 2022
1986 “Two Artists”, Tochigi Shinbun, Utsunomiya, Japan
Awards/Honors
2022 Emerging Artist 2022, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, May issue
2022 Juror Award of Merit, Jeff Nathanson juror, Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center
Tantalizing Almost Award
1983 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art San Francisco Museum of Art, Runner-up
Statement
During the covid pandemic, the fact that a small, simple organism or pathogen could devastate larger, more complex organisms such as human beings caused me to approach sculptural shapes as organisms that adapt and morph from one shape into another. I also had watched as members of my wife’s family succumbed to cancer. In these instances, the human body’s cells mutating and attacking itself. Concurrently, I was fascinated listening to Ed Yong’s I CONTAIN MULTITUDES describing every living thing that lives in us and on us. All of these influences directed my sculptural direction and still do. With the ascension of a certain president, most of my recent work has been about my reaction to the many at large societal attitudes and the policies of the United States’ states and federal government. Attitudes and policies that I consider damaging and demeaning folly are examined and excoriated. As the barrage of vile behavior is wearying, I have not abandoned previous interests. I am currently working on other ideas including those with levity. I hope to have realized in the near future.