Steven Brent

Personal Statement, March 24, 2004:
I like to go into the studio and mix up a color and throw it onto the canvas with any tool that appeals to me at the time. I surround myself with the canvas from three sides like a cave or womb.  I build up ripples, and mounds of canvas and huge pieces of dried paint. When they are secure, I can throw sometimes a gallon at one throw of gel thickened paint and watch it slide down the sculpted surface in its own free flowing pattern.  Sometimes I get a big paint mitten and grab about a quart of thick paint in one mitt-full and drag the gloppy mixture down across the surface just catching the very tops of the mounds and frozen paint strokes.

The material itself is very exciting to work with. The new plastic paint comes in so many thicknesses and viscosities, translucent combinations, plus interference and iridescent mediums. It can create effects that were only possible before with nature; like ice, crystal, water, or rock formations.  Large clumps and globs of beautiful dried paint.  Some colors dry translucent, and some dry opaque or gritty and matte with a finish of dry finely powdered sand.  Marble dust mixed with the raw acrylic medium creates a matte gel which dries semi translucent.

Education:
1 9 8 2 Painting Assistant to Helen Frankenthaler
1 9 8 0 Painting Assistant to Kenneth Noland
1 9 7 9 MFA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1 9 7 5 BFA Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Awards:
1 9 7 7 Hill Foundation Grant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1 9 7 5 Magna Cum Laude, Syracuse University
1 9 7 3 Harriot T. Levenworth Prize for Painting, Syracuse University

Solo Exhibitions:
2 0 0 3 Racine Center for the Arts, Wilmington, NC
2 0 0 2 Durst Foundation, New York City, New York
1 9 8 9 Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
1 9 8 2 Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut; Adam Gimbel Gallery, New York
1 9 8 1 Bell Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2 0 0 2 New New Painting, Gallerie Art Contemporary, Montreal
New New Painting, National Gallery, Prague, (Large scale survey of NNP,
catalog with essays of five international critics, 120 pages)
2 0 0 1 New New Painting, Gallerie Anne Letree, Paris
Ten Years of New New Painting, Museum of New New Painting, Toronto
2 0 0 0 New New Painting, Armory Show, New York City, New York
New New Painters, Hotel deVille, Brussels, Belgium
1 9 9 9 New New Painters, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
New New Painters, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
1 9 9 7 The Discovery Museum, Colors: Contrasts & Cultures, Bridgeport, CT
Museum of Contemporary Art, New New Painting, Palm Beach, FL
Fine Art 2000, New New Painting, Stamford, CT
Art Society Gallery, New New Painting, New London, CT
1 9 9 6 galerie gérald piltzer, New New Painting, Paris, France
Fine Art 2000, New New Painting, Stamford, CT
1 9 9 4 Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, New York City, New York
galerie gérald piltzer, Chicago Art International, Chicago, Illinois
galerie gérald piltzer, New York Art Fair, New York City, New York
galerie gérald piltzer with Galerie Dambier Masset, Art Fair of Frankfurt
galerie gérald piltzer, Decouvertes 94, Porte deVersailles, Paris, France
1 9 9 3 galerie gérald piltzer, FIAC, Grand-Palais, Paris, France
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, New New Painting, Nice, France
Stadtische Gallery, New New Painting, Goppingen, Germany
Musée Des Beaux Arts, New New Painting, Charleroi, Belgium
galerie gérald piltzer, Chicago Art International, Chicago, Illinois
galerie gérald piltzer, Decouvertes 93, Grand-Palais, Paris, France
1 9 9 2 galerie gérald piltzer, New New Painting, Paris, France
Galerie Dambier Masset, New New Painting, Paris, France
Gallery One, The New Acrylic Painters, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 9 9 1 The Center for the Arts, New Acrylic Painters, Vero Beach, Florida
Gallery Camino Real, The Big Picture, Boca Raton, Florida
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, The Moffett Collection, Fort Lauderdale Florida
1 9 9 0 University of Alberta Fine Arts Gallery, Outside New York, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
P.M.W. Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
1 9 8 6 Triangle Artist's Exhibition, SoHo Building, New York City, New York
Shippee Gallery, New York City, New York
1 9 8 4 Abstract Art in New England, organized by Kenworth Moffett
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire
Stamford Museum, Stamford, Connecticut
Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
1 9 8 2 Adam Gimbel Gallery, New York City, New York
1 9 8 1 Couturier. Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
1 9 7 6 Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York

Selected Public Collections:
National Gallery, Prague; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; The Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 21st Century Master Art Works, New York City, New York; Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Selected Corporate Collections:
IBM, Stamford, Connecticut; Alamo Rent A Car, Executive Headquarters, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Manufacturers Hanover, Stamford, Connecticut; Enterprise Rent a Car, Wilton, Connecticut; Atlantic Kraft, Stamford, Connecticut; The Direct Marketing Agency, Stamford, Connecticut;Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, Connecticut.