Stephen Maine
Artist Statement:
Over the past 20 years I have developed an idiosyncratic working method involving the indirect application of acrylic paint to canvas substrates via densely elaborated intermediary surfaces that function something like printing plates. Though I closely control each painting’s chromatic structure, the overall character and tactility of its surface—its material demeanor—significantly depends upon procedural happenstance. This intentionally imprecise production technique yields the great pleasure of surprise while providing a concrete way to think about color, surface, scale, seriality, figure/ground, original/copy, and the psychology of visual perception.
Artist Biography:
Stephen Maine is a painter who lives and works in West Cornwall, Connecticut. From 1982 until 2017, he was based in New York City (and, for a few years, in Jersey City) and his approach to process-oriented, color-centric abstraction is shaped by that experience. His recent paintings have been seen at Pazo Fine Art in Washington, DC; Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut; Private Public Gallery, Hudson, New York; Furnace/Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, Connecticut; and in New York City at Satchel Projects, Hionas Gallery, John Molloy Gallery, Westbeth Gallery, Project: ARTspace, and Art Cake. Maine’s solo exhibitions have been reviewed in ARTnews, Artcritical.com, the Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint, and The New Criterion. He has received support from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2000) and Yaddo (2012) and is a longstanding member of American Abstract Artists and the International Association of Art Critics.
AAA:
Member Since: 2007
