STEVEN ALEXANDER
| ARTIST WEBSITE | http://stevenalexanderstudio.blogspot.com/ | |
| BORN | ||
| 1953 | Stamford, Texas; Artist lives and works in Dalton, Pennsylvania | |
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| EDUCATION | ||
| 1977 | M.F.A., Painting & Sculpture, Columbia University, New York City, NY | |
| 1975 | B.A., Art, Austin College, Sherman, Texas | |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2010 | Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Houston, TX., (catalogue with essay by Kate Beck) | |
| Morpeth Contemporary Gallery, Hopewell, NJ (catalogue) | ||
| Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Houston, TX. | ||
| 2007 | Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Houston, TX., Paintings (catalogue with essay by Lillie Wei) | |
| 2006 | Test Pattern Gallery, Scranton, PA., | |
| 2004 | Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Houston, TX., "Terra Sutra" Paintings (catalogue) | |
| 2002 | Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Houston, TX., “As What Is” Paintings (catalogue) | |
| 2001 | Mahady Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA., “Works from the Belin Project” Paintings | |
| Gremillion Gallery, Austin, TX., “Andalucia” Paintings (catalogue) | ||
| 2000 | Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Houston, TX., “Notes from Toscana” Paintings | |
| 1999 | AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA., “Recent Paintings” | |
| 1997 | Suraci Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA., “Figure Paintings” | |
| 1995 | Kings College, Wilkes Barre, PA., “Paintings” | |
| 1994 | Roxx Gallery, Baltimore, MD., “Paintings” | |
| 1992 | Amdur Gallery, Austin, TX., “Recent Paintings” | |
| 1989 | Knitting Factory, New York City, Performance | |
| 1988 | Knitting Factory, New York City, Performance | |
| 1986 | Waterfront Studio, Brooklyn, NY., “Collages” | |
| 1982 | 161 Gallery, New York City, “Recent Paintings” | |
| 1978 | P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY., “Monks, Crows & Pilgrims” (open studio) Installation | |
| 1977 | Columbia University Campus Sites, New York City, “3 Outdoor Situations” | |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2012 | Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Paprazzi, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2011 | Heidi Cho Gallery, Steven Alexander & Taro Suzuki: Paintings, New York, NY | |
| David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, SummerSet, New York, NY | ||
| Crane Arts Center, American Abstract Artists: Abstraction, (Curated by Janet Kurnatowski), Philadelphia, PA | ||
| McKenzie Fine Art, Plane Speaking, New York, NY | ||
| Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Paper 2011, Brooklyn, NY | ||
| R&F Gallery, Conversations (Curated by Joanne Mattera & Laura Moriarty), Kingston, NY | ||
| 2009 | Heidi Cho Gallery, New York City | |
| Denise Bibro Platform, New York City | ||
| Gallery OneTwentyEight, New York City | ||
| Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY | ||
| 2007 | SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy | |
| 2006 | Scope/Miami International Art Fair,Heidi Cho Gallery, New York City | |
| Heidi Cho Gallery, New York City | ||
| 2004 | Heidi Cho Gallery, New York City | |
| 2003 | Gremillion &Co. Fine Art, Houston, TX., "Forty" | |
| 2001 | Institute for International Education, U. N. Plaza, New York City | |
| 1999 | Gremillion Gallery, Austin, TX., Gallery Group | |
| 1998 | Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA., “Art X 12” | |
| 1996 | The Painting Center, New York City, “National Juried Show" | |
| 1994 | Takasaki Art Center College, Takasaki, Japan, “Strength in Diversity” Invitational (catalogue) | |
| 1993 | AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA. | |
| Inman Gallery, Houston, TX., “Small Works” | ||
| 1992 | Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. | |
| D-Art Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX., “1992 Critics Choice” | ||
| 1991 | Sena Galleries, Santa Fe, NM. | |
| 1990 | Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX., “Austin Annual” | |
| 1989 | Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX., “Austin Annual” | |
| 1983 | The Dance, Performances in London, Munich, Munster, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam | |
| 1979 | Carnegie Hall, New York City, “The First Concert of the ‘80s”, Performance by Model Citizens | |
| The Cotton Club, New York City, Performance by Model Citizens | ||
| 1975 | Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX., “Tarrant County Annual” | |
| 1974 | Oklahoma Art Museum, Oklahoma City, “Eight State Biennial” | |
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| SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY | ||
| Present | Associate Professor of Art, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania. | |
| 2007 | "Gary Komarin's Zone of Continuity", Catalogue essay for Gary Komarin: Mexican Thoughts exhibition catalogue, published by Gaiil Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho | |
| 2005 | Visiting Professor at Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy | |
| 2004 | National Screening Committee for Fulbright Scholarships in Painting | |
| 2003 | Visiting Artist at Parsons School of Design, New York City. | |
| 2001 | "Painting and the Figure", catalogue essay for "Five Figurative Painters" exhibition, published by AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA. | |
| Completed "Andalucia Suite", a group of three original full-color lithographs, in collaboration with master printer Peter Webb in Austin, TX. The suite is published in an edition of 50 by Gremillion Publishing, Houston, TX. | ||
| 2000 | Curator and essayist for "NATURE: Contemporary Art & the Natural World", | |
| Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, including works by Per Kirkeby, Eugene Leroy, Maya Lin, Judy Pfaff, Milton Resnick, Susan Rothenberg, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, Don Van Vliet, Terry Winters. | ||
| 1999 | Visiting Professor at Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy. | |
| 1997 | Curator and catalogue essayist for "The Poetic Object: Paintings of Rebecca Purdum", Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University. | |
| 1996 | Traveled to Italy to conduct research in Florence and Rome. | |
| Taught Painting at Marywood University/France, Anjou and Paris. | ||
| 1990-1993 | Adjunct Professor of Art at Austin Community College, Austin, TX. | |
| 1984 | Summer studio residency, P.S. 122, New York City. | |
| 1978-1983 | Composed, performed and recorded experimental music. Collaborated with John Cale, Dennis & Chandra Oppenheim, Arthur Baker, among others. | |
| 1977 | Studio Residency, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY. | |
| "Western Contemporary Art and Eastern Religions", lecture presented to the Department of Religion, Columbia University. | ||
| 1976 | Edited and designed, ROOMS P.S. 1, the 160 page catalogue for the "Rooms" exhibition, June 9-26, 1976. Catalogue published by Institute for Art & Urban Resources, NYC. | |
| 1973 | Apprentice teaching residency, Ft. Wingate Navaho School near Gallup, NM., a boarding school on the Navaho Reservation. | |
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| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | ||
| Aegis Mortgage, Baton Rouge, LA. | ||
| Artists Circle Ltd., Potomac, MD. | ||
| Asbury Place Development, Fort Lauderdale, FL. | ||
| Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. | ||
| Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX. | ||
| Continental Airlines, Atlanta, GA. | ||
| Crown Castle International, Houston, TX. | ||
| Exxon Corporation, Houston, TX. | ||
| Felcore Loding Trust, Dallas, TX. | ||
| Ford, Powell & Carson, San Antonio, TX. | ||
| Fresh Paint, Culver City, CA. | ||
| Hines Interests, New York City | ||
| Hunter & Sage, Houston, TX. | ||
| In His Grip LLC., Solan Beach, CA. | ||
| Kinzelman Consulting, Houston, TX. | ||
| Mercedes Benz Corporation, USA. | ||
| Mountain View College, Dallas, TX. | ||
| Ogden, Gibson, Brooks, & Longoria, Houston, TX. | ||
| Pegasus Solutions, Dallas, TX. | ||
| Preferred Capitol, Tahoe City, CA. | ||
| R.R. Williams & Associates, Houston, TX. | ||
| Raucher Pierce Refnes, Inc., Houston, TX. | ||
| TMEC, Houston, TX. | ||
| Trammell Crow Co., Dallas, TX. | ||
| Univation Technologies, Houston, TX. | ||
| US Signs, Houston, TX. | ||
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| AWARDS & COMMISSIONS | ||
| 2009 | Artist in Residence, Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy | |
| 2008 | Commission, Lobby, Hines Building, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City | |
| Commission, MD Anderson Medical Center, Houston, TX | ||
| 2002 | Commission, Mercedes Benz Corporation, USA | |
| 2002-2006 | Who's Who in American Education | |
| 2000 | F. Lammot Belin Foundation grant for painting | |
| 1999-2006 | Who's Who in America | |
| 1977-1978 | Studio Residency, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY. | |
| ARTIST STATEMENT | ||
My work explores relations that reside in the constant flux of pure sensory events. I am interested in the interaction between the painting and the viewer’s imagination and experience; in the painting’s catalytic potency - its ability to generate unspecified mobile meaning. Color operates in the paintings and in the world as a kind of pure energy, dynamic, capricious, evocative. The surfaces emphasize the sensual rather than analytical nature of process, and attest to the pervasive presence of time. Within the structures of the paintings, archetypal dualities of male/female, earth/sky, internal/external are inevitably implied - not as opposing forces, but as interdependent aspects of an animate whole. I am trying to build, out of color and substance, a place for the viewer’s consciousness - where unexpected associations and resonances may occur, and the stuff of life, love and desire has corporeal presence – states of being, embodied in paint. |
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