STEVEN WILLIAMS LEGACY OF LANDSCAPE
STEVEN WILLIAMS LEGACY OF LANDSCAPE JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 22. 2015
LewAllenGalleries Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com cover: Not Enough Lutherans, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30” x 24”
Sleeping Wheels #2, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24” x 30”
Steven Williams: LEGACY OF LANDSCAPE efforts not only produce strikingly beautiful reproductions of often unnoticed vignettes, but unable to avoid detection by residents, each photograph he takes absorbs the personal anecdotes relayed to him by the locals.
Steven Williams, a Santa Fe-based photographer, explores environments discovered during his travels. His arresting visions of the Southwest and Midwest countryside, captured in traditional black and white Silver Gelatin Prints, reflect the consumption, abandonment, and reverence for landscape. Some images record unknown acts of love or observation, while others intimate hidden mystery or the passage of time. As a landscape’s history fades, the land itself becomes legacy.
Born in Jamestown, North Dakota, to a farming family, Williams’ upbringing instilled an understanding of taking care of the land as well as using the land. While attending undergraduate school at the University of Michigan and graduate school at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Williams was struck by the effects the auto industry has had on the local landscape and the way communities had put it to use, building into it and around it.
Working in large format, with an 8”x10” camera and negatives, allows Williams to capture greater detail and tonal range but also limits his covertness as a photographer. Thus his
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Left Front, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30� x 24� 3
Sleeping Wheels #1, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24� x 30� 4
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Crossroads, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30� x 24� 6
Arroyo Momento Mori, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30� x 24� 7
Tribute, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24� x 30� 8
Spring, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24� x 30� 9
Three Wise Men, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24” x 30” 4
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Kokograffito, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24� x 30� 12
Marker, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30� x 24� 13
On the High Road, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24” x 30” 14
Four Doors, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24” x 30” 15
Garage, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24� x 30� 4
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Special, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30� x 24�
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Relics, 2014, silver gelatin print, 24� x 30� 19
Eat, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30� x 24�
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Lasso, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30� x 24� 21
STEVEN WILLIAMS BORN Jamestown, ND 1956 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Legacy of Landscape, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2007 Quiet Expressions, Artspace 116, Albuquerque, NM 1991 Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 Poetics of Light, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM 2013 Level Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2000 Minnesota Bleak, College of Visual Arts Gallery, St. Paul, MN 1999 Sacred Places, Conn Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN 1997 University of Minnesota/McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1996 Dimensional Photography, parts Photographic Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1993 Landscape as Object, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1992 Film in the Cities/McKnight Foundation Photographic Fellowship, St. Paul, MN Group Exhibition, Viterbo College, LaCrosse, WI Twenty-Twenty Vision, Alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI 1990 49th Annual Juried Competition, Sioux City Arts Center, Sioux City, IA
Analog, 2014, silver gelatin print, 30” x 24”
EDUCATION 1985 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI, Master of Fine Arts 1983 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Bachelor of Fine Arts AWARDS 1996 University of Minnesota/McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship 1995 Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Assistance Fellowship 1991 Film in the Cities/McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship 22
Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com Š 2014 LewAllen Contemporary LLC All photos Š Steven Williams