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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Steven Elbert
Columbus Ohio 43209 United States Work Phone: 6143381973 Website: http://www.stevenelbert.com
Bio
I paint on site and in the studio, I use sketches from life and Memory, and I employ both reference photographs and imaginary elements. I am not a Landscape nor a travel painter, or one who is enamored with the picturesque. I have always had an interest in buildings, structures and ruins, but my interest is not limited to the buildings per se as much as the physical and psychological context in which they exist. The context can be the relationship to the landscape in which they are located, dramatic atmospheric conditions of light and sky, symbolic elements such as stairs and bridges, juxtaposition of elements such as sculpture, stylistic references to other artists and the suggestion of ideas. Cityscapes are therefore as interesting to me as Landscapes. It is most important to me to depict feelings of calm or desolation, a sense of the sacred and profane, a feeling of optimism or pessimism, and a sense of order or imbalance.
Artist Statement
Steven Elbert is an Architect with a life-long involvement in Design, Drawing, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking. Parallel to his career in Architecture, he has been active as a teacher at the following institutions:
Columbus College of Art & Design- Interior Design, Drawing, and Painting
Columbus State Community College- Design and Computer Rendering
Graduate School of Design, North Carolina State University- Photography and Printmaking
Technische Universitåt, Vienna, Austria- Photography and Printmaking
Salzburg College, Salzburg, Austria- Photography and Printmaking
Selective Exhibition Record
2020 Solo Exhibition, Columbus Cultural Art Center- “A Sense of Structure,” 45 mixed media pieces
2019 Solo Exhibition, DePorres Gallery, Ohio Dominican University- “Singular Perceptions,” 60 Paintings
2019 Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati- “Aquachrome” exhibition
2019 Solo Exhibition, German Village Meeting Haus, Columbus OH- “Places / Perceptions,” 56 paintings
2018 Zanesville Museum 73rd Annual Exhibition- Watercolor
2018 International Photography Annual (INPHA 6)- published collection of Photographs
2018 Bryn Du Annual Exhibition, Granville, OH- Watercolor
2017 Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Juried Exhibition “Drawn”- Multiple point perspective process drawings
2016 Ohio Arts Council 10th Annual Juried Show- Watercolor
2016 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford Midwestern 74th Biennial- Watercolor
2016 Indianapolis Art Center, “Art from the Heartland” exhibition- Watercolor
2016 Zanesville Museum of Art, 72nd Annual Exhibition- Watercolor
2015 Butler Institute of American Art, 79th annual midyear show: Watercolor, Phil Desind Award for Realist Painting
2015 Columbus, Ohio- Upper Arlington Municipal Gallery: “Beyond Photography,” a curated exhibition, set of 5 watercolors emulating photography
2014 Zanesville Museum of Art, 70th Annual Exhibition- Watercolor, Best of Show award
2014 Ohio Art League, Spring Juried Exhibition, McConnel Center for the Arts, Columbus- Photograph, First Place Award
2014 Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, “Neither Here nor There”- photograph
2013 Ohio Arts Council / Ohio Art League, Riffe Gallery, Columbus- 4 photographs
2009 Butler Institute of American Art, 73rd National Midyear Show, Youngstown- photograph
Portfolio
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