Squeak carnwath biography
Squeak carnwath biography
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Squeak Carnwath
American artist (born 1947)
Squeak Carnwath (born 1947)[1] is an American contemporary painter and arts educator.
She is a professor emerita of art at the University of California, Berkeley.[2][3] She has a studio in Oakland, California, where she has lived and worked since 1970.[4]
Early life and education
Carnwath was born on 1947 in Abington, Pennsylvania.[1] She has explained "Squeak" as "a childhood name that stuck".[5]
After high school, Carnwath studied art in Illinois, Greece, and Vermont before attending the California College of Arts and Crafts,[6] where she studied ceramics, painting, and sculpture with Viola Frey, Art Nelson, Jay DeFeo, and Dennis Leon.
She received her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977.[7]
Work
Carnwath has a distinctive and recognizable style which combines diaristic and personal elements with universal or existential them