Oil painter June Stratton (b.1959 Honolulu, Hawaii), now residing in Savannah Georgia, is known for representational figurative oil paintings that incorporate the figure with natural landscapes. Recent works incorporate gold leaf and handmade plaster (fresco-secco) casts. These casts created from both the organic environment surrounding her studio and treasures the artist has collected over years. Large paintings may contain as many as 30 individual casts which are then gilded or painted with oil.
Her work is collected by art collectors and art galleries internationally including recent solo shows with Robert Lange Studios SC.
Select Collections include Bennett Collection of Women Realists, Texaco Incorporated, US Department of State, Bank of America, The Mayo Clinic, and The St Regis Hotel.
Recently published in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Issue #35 Editorial “Path to Creation”, PoetsArtists Figurative Realism, Issue #100. Also, American Art Collector, Cover, October Issue 2016
June Stratton’s studio looks over salt-water marshes a few steps from her home in a lush sub-tropical coastal area near Savannah Georgia USA
Education
1977-79 College of Fine Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Selected Collections
The Bennett Collection of Woman Realists
Texaco Incorporated, New York, New York
US Department of State, Washington DC
Bank of America, Seattle, Washington
Federal Reserve, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Chicago Title Insurance Company, Seattle, Washington
Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington
Kaiser Hospital, Portland, Oregon
Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Virginia Mason Clinic, Seattle, Washington
St Regis Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Verses Group Show, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2023 Mother Earth, Stone Sparrow NYC, New York, New York
2023 Transcendence, Solo Show, Robert Lange Studio, Charleston, South Carolina
2022 WOMAN, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, Canada
2022 Halcyon Days, Modern Eden Gallery, Group show curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, San Francisco, California
2021 Small Wonders, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2021 Facing the Universe:The Cosmos Within, Wausau, Wisconsin
2020 Process, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2019 Double Vision, Duo Show, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2019 I Observe, Rehs Contemporary, New York
2019 Secondary Meanings, Zhou B Art Museum, Chicago
2019 Painting Today, MEAM Museum, Barcelona
2018 Painting the Figure Now, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
2018 Oceana, Duo Show, Robert Lange Studios, South Carolina
2017 Aquamarine, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2017 In the Garden, Distinction Gallery, Escondido, California
2016 Interplay, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2015 Ten, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2014 I see a Pattern, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
Animal Dreams, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Flutter, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
Flying Dreams, Whitney Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2013 North vs. South, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2013 Evolution, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, South Carolina
2012 MuseArt, Whitney Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2009 Splash, Lanoue Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Lanoue Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, June Stratton and Melody Postma
2007 Whitney Gallery, Savannah, Georgia "Femme Transparent"
Lanoue Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts “Vision - Contemporary Female Artists"
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, Virginia "Vision - Contemporary Female Artists"
Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia "Metamorphosis"
2006 Lanoue Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 Whitney Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
Lanoue Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2004 Whitney Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2000 Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho and Seattle, Washington
Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana
1999 Artists of Rural Landscapes, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington
1998 Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, California, Landscapes, Invitational (catalogue)
1998 Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1997 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington
1994 Kimzey Miller Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1993 Introductions 1993, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, California
Kimzey Miller Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Publications
2023 ARTICULATE Magazine, Cover and article
2021 Art History & Appreciation by Karen Deloach, “Figurative Realist”
2021 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Issue #35, Editorial “Path to Creation”
2019 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Issue #26, Artist Spotlight
2018 PoetsArtists #100 Figurative Realism curated by Dirk Dzimirsky
2018 American Art Collector, 16 Contemporary Women Artists, March Issue
2017 South Magazine, Eleven of the South’s Greatest Artists, March April issue
2016 American Art Collector, Cover, October Issue
2016 American Art Collector, April Issue
2016 Fine Art Connoisseur.com
2010 PoetsArtists.com, October Issue
2008 Artistaday.com, January 7
2006 Deep Magazine, “The Deep End”, January-February Issue
2005 Savannah Morning News, “Small Works, Big Ideas”, Dec 10
2004 Savannah Morning News, ”Visions of Light”, Oct 03
1998 Southwest Art, “Best of the West: Luminous Landscapes”, August Issue
1994 American Artist, “From Rags to Riches”, May Issue
