Artists' Fellowship - 2000
Painting
Artist Statement:
My recent work continues an exploration of vernacular abstraction with a particular focus on the hybrid, wherein each element qualifies every other element to the point of visual confusion. In these wall-mounted mixed-media constructions, the viewer’s experience of space is simultaneously pictorial and sculptural: each is a “specific object.” The play of cast shadows and the sheen of industrially produced materials are as fundamental to the composition as color selection, and the optical din of layered pattern is meant to suggest infinitely deep fields of pure sensation even as the material reality of the work is bluntly obvious.
More about the Artist:
Stephen Maine was born in 1958 in Hartford, Connecticut, and received his formal art training at RISD, Hartford Art School, the University of Connecticut, Yale University, and Indiana University (BFA, 1982). He lives and works in Brooklyn. He has written for The Art Book, Art in America, and www.artnet.com. His top ten formative art-related experiences of all time (in chronological order) are:
1. Sinclair Tires pavilion, Expo 67, Montreal 1967
2. Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
3. Lucas Samaras, Reconstructions, Pace Gallery, New York 1975
4. Dore Ashton, Rosa Bonheur lecture, Storrs CT 1979
5. Cy Twombly, Whitney Museum, New York 1979
6. The Cramps, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 1982
7. James Turrell, Meeting, PS1, New York 1986
8. Jenny Holzer, Guggenheim Museum, New York 1989
9. Sevilla Cathedral, 2001
10. R.M. Schindler, Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2002
Maine also participated in the NYFA exhibition Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence at Sotheby's, New York, from June-July 2001.
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