STEVEN ALEXANDER J O U R N A L: Color

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19.7.21

In the Studio

Steven Alexander, Interior 5, 2021, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches

23.10.20

In the Studio

Steven Alexander, Reflector 1, 2020, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches

Steven Alexander, Reflector 2, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches

31.8.20

A few magnificent new paintings by Gonçalo Ivo from his Cosmogenies series. After an extended residency at the Joseph & Anni Albers Foundation during the advent of the pandemic, Gonçalo is now working in isolation at his studio compound in Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro.

Gonçalo Ivo, 2020, oil on linen, 140cm x 300cm

Gonçalo Ivo, 2020, oil on linen, 300cm x 100cm

4.6.20

In the Studio

Steven Alexander, POET XIII, 2015-2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 inches

1.1.20

2020

Steven Alexander, NOMAD 4, 2019, oil & acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60 inches

Wishing everyone LOVE and PEACE in 2020.

19.11.19

In the Studio

Steven Alexander, Nomad 3, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 inches

5.9.19

In the Studio

Steven Alexander, Nomad 1, 2019, oil and acrylic on linen, 72 x 60 inches

26.5.19

In the Studio

Steven Alexander, Reverb 24, 2019, oil and acrylic on linen, 16 x 14 inches

Steven Alexander, Tabula 7, 2019, oil on canvas, 42 x 30 inches

30.3.19

Color, Pattern, Texture & Shape at Spanierman Modern Miami

Here are a few images from a wonderful 3-person show in which I am honored to participate: Color, Pattern, Texture & Shape: Steven Alexander, Louise P. Sloane, Heidi Spector, at Spanierman Modern Miami through April 14, 2019. Many thanks to Gavin Spanierman for his generosity and expert curation.

L to R: Sloane, Alexander, Alexander

L to R: Alexander, Sloane, Spector

Steven Alexander, Poet XIV, 2016, oil & acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches

L to R: Alexander, Sloane, Spector

Steven Alexander, Transfer 1, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 inches

1.1.19

2019

Wishing everyone love and peace in 2019.

Steven Alexander, Generation 5, 2018, oil & acrylic on linen, 60 x 50 inches

9.9.18

GONÇALO IVO: New Paintings

Gonçalo Ivo, 2018, oil on linen, 180 x 120 cm

As artists get older, we often tend to drill down into a tighter and tighter focus, exploring increasingly minute nuances within a particular motif or idiom. For Brazilian painter Gonçalo Ivo, however, this way of working has never been of interest. Undoubtedly the most prolific painter I know, Gonçalo commands a visual vocabulary that is almost infinite, a creative energy that seem inexhaustible. He has inherited and inhabited deep affinities with the most fundamental human impulses to develop a life and a body of work that is infused with extreme sensuality, and that constantly reminds us of the potential richness of existence.

Gonçalo Ivo, 2018, oil on linen, 180 x 120 cm

See more of Gonçalo Ivo's work HERE, including his magnificent Lamento series from 2012.
Read a wonderful interview with Gonçalo by Julie Karabenick HERE.
And read my essay about his work from the book: Gonçalo Ivo: Oratório HERE.

Gonçalo Ivo, Lamento (installation, Rio de Janeiro), 2012

Gonçalo Ivo, Lamento, 2011, oil on linen, 240 x 120 cm

21.7.18

CALL AND RESPONSE

Here are a few images from my exhibition titled Call and Response, curated by Spanierman Modern at The Pierre Hotel, New York (through September 30, 2018). I am most grateful to Gavin Spanierman for this beautiful installation, and for his vision in moving the work outside the gallery space, exploring alternative venues for exhibitions.

Steven Alexander, Generation 3, 2018, oil & acrylic on linen, 60 x 50 inches

Steven Alexander, (l) Arcade 8, 2018, oil & acrylic on linen, 42 x 36, (r) Is & Was 25, 2017, oil & acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 inches

Steven Alexander, Reverb 9, 2017, oil & acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches

Steven Alexander, Poet XIV, 2016, oil & acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches

Steven Alexander, Tracer 10, 2016, oil & acrylic on canvas, 42 x 60 inches

Steven Alexander, Arcade 8, 2018, oil & acrylic on canvas, 42 x 36 inches

Steven Alexander, Generation 4, 2018, oil & acrylic on canvas, 32 x 32 inches

31.5.18

RICHARD POUSETTE-DART at Bowdoin College

Richard Pousette-Dart, Meditation on the Drifting Stars, 1962-63, oil on linen

Richard Pousette-Dart, Meditation on the Drifting Stars, detail

One of the younger, and perhaps less famous, members of the first generation of New York School painters, Richard Pousette-Dart pursued a highly personal, quasi-mystical investigation that grew steadily more focused. An exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine (through September 16, 2018), titled Painting/Light/Space, features work from what I think is his most brilliant period, from the early 1960's to the mid-'70s. Here Pousette-Dart has worked his way out of Surrealism, and its depictive tendencies, arriving at a free and open dialogue with the painting language -- a direct transposition of pure sensation in which experience is embodied in color.

The large scale works in this thrilling exhibition are built of small dabs of thick paint, layered over time to form undulating atmospheres that are also crusty objects. Color relations are intuitively constructed and deeply soulful, reflecting a vision that is both ecstatic and meditative. These are timeless and expansive paintings that, in both intention and form, are as ancient as they are utterly contemporary.