Art by Michael Stevenson

Le roi est mort! Vive le roi!

2012-01-26T22:05:00.003-05:00

Getting started on new work for an exhibition, images of the various Louis; (les rois francais, bien sur...)

Here's an image of a previous version (since destroyed) - multi-panel, acrylic on canvas, approx 6' x 4.5'

three prints - october 2011

2011-10-09T17:34:00.000-04:00

three prints - untitled as of yet

12.5 x 10 inches

screenprint on Coventry Rag

edition of 30 each

New prints this afternoon

2011-10-09T11:29:00.001-04:00

Don't forget - giving away three sets of new prints this afternoon on FB - link is

http://www.facebook.com/mstevensonart

We have a winner!

2011-10-09T11:28:00.002-04:00

S.K. from Northern California! Congrats!

Check out the painting here:

http://www.facebook.com/mstevensonart

Win a painting

2011-07-13T23:35:00.004-04:00

That's right, join the mailing list between July 13, and August 23, 2011, you get a chance to win a painting.

Shipping is covered - if it's outside the States, you pay duty, taxes etc.

Here's the plan: I take the names from the mailing list, assign a number to each, put the numbers in a hat and the draw, or have drawn, a number from that hat/. Said number wins the painting.

Should I simulcast this on youtube?

Mailing list can be found here:

http://www.mstevensonart.com/contact.html

Painting for Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica

2011-07-13T23:32:00.003-04:00

Image of triptych to be exhibited at Chain Letter, Summer Group Show at Shoshona Wayne Gallery.

Image is of a three panel painting, acrylic on canvas, 45" x 20", 2011.

Showing in Chain Letter, group exhibition, Shoshona Wayne, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles

2011-07-05T22:26:00.006-04:00

Will be exhibiting new work in Chain Letter, a group show curated by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey at Shoshona Wayne, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles.

Link can be found here.

Excerpts from the announcement:

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present a summer group show curated by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey.

Chain Letter is a group exhibition based on admiration. Initially conceived by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey in 2006, inclusion in the exhibition is based on invitation by someone who admires your work. Each artist invited then invites ten other artists whom they admire, and so on. This email invite will circulate for thirty days, at the end of which each artist will install their own work on the floor at Shoshana Wayne Gallery.

Other cities worldwide will be participating in the Chain Letter exhibition including New York City, London, Paris, Johannesburg, Philadelphia, Boston, Seoul.

Museum Exhibition

2010-03-07T00:51:00.002-05:00

Michael John Basil Stevenson

Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art

March -October 2010

Catalog available

For more information, please email

m.stevenson.art (at) gmail.com

Diptychs summer 2009

2009-09-10T21:59:00.003-04:00

Three diptychs - 16" x 16", acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Solo Museum Exhibition

2009-01-10T13:06:00.000-05:00

I am pleased to announce that I will be having a solo museum exhibition
At the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art in the Spring of 2010.
The show will consist of paintings done over the last couple of years
and will be accompanied by a catalog.
To find out more, please sign-up on the website.
The link is here.

Diptychs

2008-09-16T12:55:00.000-04:00

Some recent diptychs as well. These came from the larger paintings. A selection.

70 x 100 cm

Larger scale paintings

2008-09-12T16:48:00.000-04:00

These larger scale works evolved out of the smaller paintings I have been doing. They are roughly one meter high (slightly more for the bigger ones, slightly less for the smaller.) They are untitled as of yet. Click on the image to see a larger version.

116 x 89 cm

130 x 89 cm

130 x 89 cm

130 x 97 cm

Triptych - Paris

2008-09-12T16:45:00.001-04:00

Another triptych in the series.

New smaller paintings - Paris

2008-06-08T16:59:00.000-04:00

Upon relocation to Paris, a new series of paintings in a similar vein as the 100 Mission St. works. More specifically, they derive from some done in Northern California just before moving to France.

untitled as of yet, acrylic on canvas, triptych, 33 x 72 centimeters.

New Smaller Paintings

2007-04-15T03:13:00.000-04:00

Some smaller works, 2007

8" x 10"
acrylic on canvas - currently untitled

100 Mission St. Commission

2006-11-19T23:20:00.000-05:00

Smaller presentation works meant to be large installations, but were not accepted for the commission. The site was 100 Mission Street, San Francisco. The two paintings follow: above and below are photoshopped installation shots. The final works were to be 14' by 10', diptychs both.

The two smaller works are to be found in the collection of the building.

Belle Epoque review in November Artweek

2006-11-16T01:00:00.000-05:00

A larger (readable) version of this can be found here.

Belle Epoque Statement

2006-11-10T13:19:00.000-05:00

The statement, from the LA show:

This body of work is drawn from paintings of society women done by Jean Dominique Ingres, the French Classical painter of the 19th Century. The paintings started as a continuation of previous figurative works, with an interest in the formal aspects of the source paintings - the pose, the rendering of materials and so forth - but soon turned to what I saw as the artifice in Ingres' work. The idealization of the figures and the idealization of the environments hid the artistic license Ingres took with the anatomy of the women. So I pushed that incongruity by incorporating further the figures in an abstract context. Like engenders like and from these paintings arose the strictly abstract work, included here, the two paintings Belle Epoque - I and Belle Epoque - II. My present work continues in that vein.

Belle Epoque Exhibition in Los Angeles

2006-11-06T18:21:00.000-05:00

Quatres Robes, finished state, in the studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts, in the Marin Headlands. The painting consists of eight panels and originated during my residency at the Vermont Studio Center. I wanted to play around with a painting that could be re-arranged by the viewer. The painting was part of an exhibition I recently had, entitled Belle Epoque, consisting of five single panel paintings and this multi-paneled piece.
The exhibition first opened at Mesa Contemporary Arts (municipal museum), in Mesa, Arizona, curated by Frank deCurtis, formerly the assistant curator there. It was up for three months, moved on to San Francisco, at One Sansome, presented by Jan Casey of Casey and Associates. Again, it was up for a couple of months before being exhibited at Angel's Gate Cultural Center, in Los Angeles. That stretch ran from July to October - it was taken down a week ago, and was reviewed by Kim Beil in Artweek, for the November edition. More images of the works exhibited, studio shots and the review can be seen here on Flickr.
Also, installation shots uploaded by Angel's Gate can be seen here, again on Flickr.