Steven Alexander
Artist Statement:
Paintings are specific visual events that accrue significance by their ability to engage the imagination through time. Echoing the deep sensuality of nature, and born of our persistent despair, they are direct manifestations of consciousness that remind us of our aliveness.
My paintings are tactile color situations that create places where unexpected resonances may occur. They invite meditative encounters, and humbly propose heightened access to the existent moment – the stuff of life and love as color presence – states of being, embodied in paint.
Artist Biography:
Steven Alexander makes abstract paintings that employ uncomplicated geometric structures activated by color, and alluding to rhythms, tensions and dualities of the body and the psyche. For more than forty years he has been dedicated to exploring the language of abstraction, and its potential for regeneration and historical resonance. Born in 1953 in west Texas, Alexander studied art at Austin College, moved to New York in 1975, and earned an MFA in painting at Columbia University. His work is held in private and public collections worldwide and has been featured in more than one hundred exhibitions, most recently in one-person shows at Spanierman Modern in New York, and David Findlay Jr Gallery in New York, and in numerous solo and group exhibitions and art fairs throughout the US and abroad. He has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Belin Foundation, studio residencies at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, and Studio Art Centers International in Italy, as well as numerous public commissions. He maintains a home and studio in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania.
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Member Since: 2014
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