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Steven Alexander: Chroma Consciousness

...chroma and consciousness -- mysterious essences that animate reality, and are defined by perception.

November 26 – December 26, 2020

Steven Alexander, Reverb 21, 2017

Steven Alexander

Reverb 21, 2017

Oil and acrylic on canvas

18 x 22 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander, Metro 1, 2014

Steven Alexander

Metro 1, 2014

Oil and acrylic on canvas

30 x 26 inches

Steven Alexander, Veil 2, 2017

Steven Alexander

Veil 2, 2017

Oil and acrylic on canvas

22 x 18 inches

signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander, Voice 7, 2017

Steven Alexander

Voice 7, 2017

Oil and acrylic on canvas

16 x 14 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander, Nomad 5, 2020

Steven Alexander

Nomad 5, 2020

Oil and acrylic on canvas

40 x 50 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander, Reverb 26, 2019

Steven Alexander

Reverb 26, 2019

Acrylic and oil on canvas

22 x 18 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander Generation 3, 2018

Steven Alexander
Generation 3
, 2018
Oil and acrylic on linen
42 x 36 inches
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso
 

Steven Alexander, Blue Poet, 2019

Steven Alexander

Blue Poet, 2019

Oil and acrylic on canvas

50 x 40 inches

Signed and titled, verso

 

Steven Alexander, Nomad 4, 2019

Steven Alexander

Nomad 4, 2019

Oil and acrylic on canvas

50 x 60 inches

signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander Generation 4, 2018

Steven Alexander
Generation 4
, 2018
Oil and acrylic on linen
32 x 32 inches
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso
 

Steven Alexander, Arcade 8, 2018

Steven Alexander

Arcade 8, 2018

Oil and acrylic on linen

42 x 36 inches

Signed, titled and dated on the verso

Steven Alexander, Voice 1, 2020

Steven Alexander

Voice 1, 2020

Oil and acrylic on canvas

60 x 42 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander Transfer 1, 2012

Steven Alexander
Transfer 1
, 2012
Oil and acrylic on linen
50 x 40 inches
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso

Steven Alexander Poet XIV, 2016

Steven Alexander
Poet XIV
, 2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
72 x 48 inches
Signed, dated and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander Reverb 19, 2017

Steven Alexander
Reverb 19
, 2017
Oil and acrylic on canvas
22 x 18 inches
 

Steven Alexander, Arcade 4, 2017

Steven Alexander

Arcade 4, 2017

Oil and acrylic on canvas

22 x 18 inches

Steven Alexander Reverb 9, 2017

Steven Alexander
Reverb 9
, 2017
Oil and acrylic on linen
72 x 48 inches
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso
 

Steven Alexander, Voice 9, 2018

Steven Alexander

Voice 9, 2018

Oil and acrylic on canvas

36 x 42 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander, Tabula 7, 2019

Steven Alexander

Tabula 7, 2019

Oil and acrylic on canvas

42 x 30 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander Voice 2, 2015

Steven Alexander
Voice 2
, 2015
Oil and acrylic on canvas
42 x 30 inches
Signed, titled and dated on the vers

Steven Alexander, Tracer 10, 2016

Steven Alexander

Tracer 10, 2016

Oil and acrylic on linen

42 x 60 inches

Signed, titled, and dated on the verso

Steven Alexander, Reverb16, 2020

Steven Alexander

Reverb16, 2020

Oil and acrylic on canvas

42 x 30 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander Tracer 2, 2014

Steven Alexander
Tracer 2
, 2014
Oil and acrylic on canvas
32 x 24 inches
 

Steven Alexander Tracer 7, 2017

Steven Alexander
Tracer 7, 2017
Oil and acrylic on canvas
50 x 60 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander Voice 6, 2017

Steven Alexander
Voice 6
, 2017
Oil and acrylic on canvas
36 x 42 inches
signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander, Voice 11, 2019

Steven Alexander

Voice 11, 2019

Oil and acrylic on canvas

48 x 72 inches

Signed and titled on the verso

Steven Alexander Four Winds 10, 2016

Steven Alexander
Four Winds 10
, 2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
42 x 36 inches
Signed and titled on the verso

Press Release

STEVEN ALEXANDER: CHROMA CONSCIOUSNESS

 

...chroma and consciousness -- mysterious essences that animate reality, and are defined by perception.

 

 

Steven Alexander is a builder of color-fields in which the viewer is the beneficiary of a quiet space to contemplate the relationship between them and the object before them. Extending the legacy of artists like Mondrian, Morandi, and Rothko who approached painting as an existential investigation, his paintings present uncomplicated color situations that mirror the viewer, and allude to rhythms, tensions and dualities of the body and the psyche. It is color that is the soul of this enterprise and through the richness and range of his palette, he recapitulates the history of art in a schematic, color-coded abstract distillation. These are not analytical paintings based on a pre-conceived system, but intuitively made as one color calls up another and is measured against another, balanced and counterweighted.

 

The Netherlands-based De Stijl movement embraced an abstract, pared-down aesthetic centered in basic visual elements such as geometric forms and primary colors. Partly a reaction against the decorative excesses of Art Deco, the reduced quality of De Stijl art was envisioned by its creators as a universal visual language appropriate to the modern era, a time of a new, spiritualized world order. Led by the painters Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian - its central and celebrated figures - the members envisioned nothing less than the ideal fusion of form and function, thereby making De Stijl in effect the ultimate style. In that vein, Steven’s work is characterized by rigorous attention to formal elements such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale.

 

Another chief influence on Steven is the much celebrated abstract expressionist  artist, Mark Rothko. One can easily see his influences in the brilliant luminosity Steven accomplishes through the application of thin layers of pigment, and juxtaposition of colors. Like Rothko, Steven’s art is distinguished by a rare degree of sustained concentration on pure pictorial properties such as color, surface, proportion, and scale, accompanied by the conviction that those elements could disclose the presence of a high philosophical truth. 

 

Steven was Born in 1953 in west Texas. He moved to New York in 1975, completing an MFA in painting at Columbia University, where he studied with Richard Pousette-Dart and Dore Ashton. 

 

This is the second solo exhibition of Steven's work at Spanierman Modern, however, his work has been widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States and abroad, including recent solo exhibitions at David Findlay Jr Gallery and The Curator Gallery in New York. A member of the venerable American Abstract Artists group, he has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Belin Foundation, studio residencies at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and Studio Art Centers International in Florence, and numerous public commissions. He maintains a home and studio in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania.