Skip Steinworth: Recent Works

Skip Steinworth Recent Works

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Skip Steinworth Recent Works

May 26 - June 19.2017

LewAllenGalleries Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com

cover: Hydrangeas, 2016, graphite on board, 23.25 x 19.5 in

Skip Steinworth

Recent Works

Without embellishment of color and rendered with extraordinary finesse and minimal context, Skip Steinworth’s radiant drawings- ironically, often of ephemeral objects- reach for the infinite.

Steinworth states, “It’s a process of mentally deconstructing, analyzing and distilling the visual essence of a subject.” In his hands, a potted plant becomes far more than just a potted plant: effortlessly, he transcends subject matter by capturing its ultimate, almost spiritual essence, what Ingres called its “inner form.”

While Steinworth’s drawings, according to Art Scene Magazine, are “gutsy in their rejection of bombast,” they retain a remarkable energy in their masterful composition, evocation of light, space, and form. Like the Dutch and French old masters before him, Steinworth pays careful, almost obsessive attention to arrangement, lighting, scale and subject matter, elevating the everyday to resplendent expression.

Skip Steinworth: Recent Works begins the evening prior to the public opening of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s exhibition Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now, and coincides with Santa Fe’s summer celebration of the art form of drawing, entitled The Art of the Draw, that includes the New Mexico Museum of Art exhibition, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s presentation of O’Keefe’s drawings, the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts exhibition Action Abstraction Redefined, and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s 2017 Summer Festival Season, which will feature a score dedicated to Pablo Picasso.

Skip Steinworth lives and works in Minnesota. After receiving a Master’s Degree from St. Cloud University, Steinworth has found acclaim, exhibiting at galleries such as Forum Gallery and MB Modern in New York City and Louis Newman Galleries in Beverly Hills. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Most recently, Steinworth was honored with a major solo exhibition at the Evansville Museum of Art.

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Apple, 2016, Graphite on board, 13.75 x 11 in 3

Pears, 2010, Graphite on board, 15 x 21 in

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Leaves, 2012, Graphite on board, 9.5 x 10.5 in

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Mums, Cutting, Shadow, 2006, Graphite on board, 29 x 37.5 in 7

Beachstones #6, 2015, Graphite on board, 11 x 11 in 8

Beachstones #4, 2014, Graphite on board, 12 x 18 in,

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Two Pears, 2016, Graphite on board, 14 x 10 in

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Two Peonies in Fluted Glass, 2016, Graphite on board, 18 x 24 in

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Pots/Plants #4, 2011, Graphite on board, 22 x 32 in 13

Peony Bouquet in Fluted Jar, 2010, Graphite on board, 30 x 22 in 14

Shoreline #4, 2017, Graphite on board, 18 x 18 in

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White Flowers in Bright Light, 2015, Graphite on board, 22.5 x 29.5 in

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Three Garlics, 2012, Graphite on board, 10 x 12.5 in 17

Shoreline, 2014, Graphite on board, 20 x 30 in 18

Single Flower in Bright Light, 2016, Graphite on board, 19.75 x 11 in

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Three Apples, 2010, Graphite on board, 14 x 16 in

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Skip Steinworth

b. 1950, Stillwater, MN

EDUCATION 1979 MA Art, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 1974 BA Art, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2017 Skip Steinworth, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM;

Stillness: Drawings by Skip Steinworth, Evansville

Museum of Arts, History and Science, Evansville, IN 2015 National Contemporary Realism Invitational, M. A.

Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK; also 2014 2014 Face to Face, Artists’ Self-Portraits from the Collection

of Jackye & Curtis Finch, Arkansas Arts Center, Little

Rock, AR 2013 Contemporary American Still Lifes, Evansville

Museum of Arts, History, Science, Evansville, IN; Spring Selections, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San

Francisco, CA 2012 Quietude, Drawing Stillness, Jenkins Johnson

Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Pismo Fine Arts, Aspen, CO Texas Contemporary, Jenkins Johnson Gallery,

Houston, TX; Celebrate Summer, Jenkings Johnson gallery, San

Francisco, CA 2010 Summertime, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco,

CA and New York, NY; San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Jenkins Johnson Gallery,

San Francisco, CA; Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Beyond the Object Project, Galley 1261, Denver, CO;

On Paper, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY; Black and White, William Blaczek Fine Arts,

Northampton, MA 2008 The Object Project, Evansville Museum of Art,

Evansville, IN; Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville,

SC; Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK; Hunter Museum of

Art, Chattanooga, TN; Museum of Outdoor Art,

Denver, CO 2007 Drawn From Life, Sardella Fine Art, Aspen, CO 21

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Skip Steinworth, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also 2000) Re-representing V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY A Noble Tradition Revisited: The Contemporary American Still Life, Spanierman Gallery, New York, NY Skip Steinworth: Drawings, Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN Observed Facts: New Realism, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX; A View From Within: Still Lifes and Interiors, Sydney Bernard Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Paperworks, MB Modern Gallery, New York, NY Drawings Midwest, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN; Drawings of Skip Steinworth, Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Skip Steinworth, Jerry Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA About American Realism, Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ .

Realism '95, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV 20th Century Figurative Drawings, Forum Gallery, New York, NY The Real Thing, Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, Skip Steinworth, Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA Slice of Life: Contemporary Still Lifes, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Skip Steinworth, Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Plains Museum, Moorhead, MN St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

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