I was invited to participate in an Artists Speed Dating event. Sounds really cool. If you are interested in talking to contemporary artists about their work follow the previous link to sign up.
Arlington Arts Center & The Pink Line Project present:
{Artist Speed Dating} 3 minutes to ask a contemporary artist anything! We do mean ANYTHING...about contemporary art.
Monday: July 19, 2010
Time: Happy Hour: 5pm, Dating 6-8pm
Location: @ Poste in the Hotel Monaco in Penn Quarter.
Arlington Arts Center & The Pink Line Project present:
{Artist Speed Dating} 3 minutes to ask a contemporary artist anything! We do mean ANYTHING...about contemporary art.
Monday: July 19, 2010
Time: Happy Hour: 5pm, Dating 6-8pm
Location: @ Poste in the Hotel Monaco in Penn Quarter.
I will be in a 4 person exhibition, "Emerging Artists II", curated by Kelly Waterman, at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in August with Chloe Watson, Rachel Sitkin-Marks, and Lee Oliver.
I was invited to be in a group exhibition, “Kaleidoscope”, curated by Marcia Bass, at The Galleries at C.C.B.C Catonsville from October 12-November 19, 2010, with a reception on Friday, October 15, 2010 6-8pm.
I will be having a Solo Exhibition of new work at the Falk Gallery at Christopher Newport University from January 10th - February 10th, 2011
I will be giving an Artist Lecture about my work at the University of Montana, School of Art in March of 2011
Individual Artist Grant
I was awarded a 2010 Individual Artist Grant for painting from the Maryland State Arts Council.
I have work included in a group exhibition, "SPECTRUM: Contemporary Color Abstraction", at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. The show runs from March 26th thru August 1st.
I recently had a painting in a group exhibition, "Fuzzy Logic: Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art", at the Thompson Gallery in the Garthwaite Center for Science and Art, Cambridge School of Weston, MA. The exhibit ran from April 9 — June 17, 2010. click the link to see some installation images of the exhibition.
I recently had a Solo Exhibition at the Arlington Art Center in Arlington, VA. The show ran from April 16th - June 5th.
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Recent article in McDaniel College's Alumni Magazine, The Hill about my teaching, and some of my students that have gone on to top rated MFA programs.
Interview for Bluff Journal, by Chanan Delivuk
A Little Chat with Steven Pearson
A Little Chat with Steven Pearson
review in Ode Street Tribune:
-Steven Pearson's acrylic paintings replicate with bright colors the irresistible pull of a Blackberry to the message-addicted. You can easily appreciate these works if you quickly stroll through the Arts Center. But the works that contemporary art experts Rebecca Jones and Henry Thaggert have selected for this exhibition also relate to each other in subtle ways. To fully appreciation this exhibition, see the works in relation to each other.
John James Anderson's display of D.C. fire hydrant information has formal parallels with some of Steven Pearson's work. The geometric patterning of streets in some of Anderson's panels distantly echo the networks in some of Pearson's paintings. Anderson also arranged images of individual fire hydrants into large, rectangular grids. Like in Pearson's Gaining Momentum and Daily Paintings panels, the rectangular grid pushes against the insistently individual and idiosyncratic grid elements.
-Steven Pearson's acrylic paintings replicate with bright colors the irresistible pull of a Blackberry to the message-addicted. You can easily appreciate these works if you quickly stroll through the Arts Center. But the works that contemporary art experts Rebecca Jones and Henry Thaggert have selected for this exhibition also relate to each other in subtle ways. To fully appreciation this exhibition, see the works in relation to each other.
John James Anderson's display of D.C. fire hydrant information has formal parallels with some of Steven Pearson's work. The geometric patterning of streets in some of Anderson's panels distantly echo the networks in some of Pearson's paintings. Anderson also arranged images of individual fire hydrants into large, rectangular grids. Like in Pearson's Gaining Momentum and Daily Paintings panels, the rectangular grid pushes against the insistently individual and idiosyncratic grid elements.
Recent article
"Works on Paper" Catalogue Statement- John Bodkin, Director
-These unique drawings combine forms and colors of the comics without the figurative transfer of images found there. The combined juxtaposition of panels and form and unlikely color and line quality in Steven’s unabashed exploration drives him into fully extending himself without regard for making his work pretty. The raw power transfers to our consciousness with an energy that can confront and question.
"New Visions" at American Contemporary Gallery-Review by Danielle Gagliardi
BMoreArt
-Within the show a few pieces stand out amongst the rest. Immediately in the foyer of the gallery hangs “Some Heroes Step Forward”, one of Steven Pearson’s bold wood grain abstractions. The combination of his use of comic book colors and the overwhelming scale of his pieces gives the impression of complexity and simplicity at once.
"New Visions" Catalogue Statement- John Bodkin, Director.
-While many artists fall into a comfort zone in their work, Steven is absolutely fearless and driven in his exploration as an artist. The work exhibited here is bold, vivid in its color range and unrelenting in its forms. Steven attacks the very essence of a definitive world. Good and evil, black and white, night and day, real and fantasy all become part of his aesthetics and encompass even his material and techniques.
"Naked" exhibit exposes abstract views of life
by Glenn Mcnatt, Art Critic, Baltimore Sun. Wednesday 7/19,2006 pp1E & 4E
-Steven Pearson, who has the largest number of works in the show, is also an abstract painter, but his method often involves a whimsical reiteration of familiar figurative forms until their original character is no longer recognizable. In these colorful, carefully organized canvases, one senses a world of identifiable shapes that seems to lie just beyond the ken of normal perception, but nonetheless remains vitally alive and cogent.
Still Liquid/Still Solid
By Pam Zappardino, Art Critic, Carroll County Times Friday, June 02, 2006
-Steven Pearson uses color and form to build tension so tight you can feel it. Organic shapes strain against geometrics, complementary colors bleeding into shades of similar hues. "Copulating" is constrained by its frame while fitting perfectly within it.
-These unique drawings combine forms and colors of the comics without the figurative transfer of images found there. The combined juxtaposition of panels and form and unlikely color and line quality in Steven’s unabashed exploration drives him into fully extending himself without regard for making his work pretty. The raw power transfers to our consciousness with an energy that can confront and question.
"New Visions" at American Contemporary Gallery-Review by Danielle Gagliardi
BMoreArt
-Within the show a few pieces stand out amongst the rest. Immediately in the foyer of the gallery hangs “Some Heroes Step Forward”, one of Steven Pearson’s bold wood grain abstractions. The combination of his use of comic book colors and the overwhelming scale of his pieces gives the impression of complexity and simplicity at once.
"New Visions" Catalogue Statement- John Bodkin, Director.
-While many artists fall into a comfort zone in their work, Steven is absolutely fearless and driven in his exploration as an artist. The work exhibited here is bold, vivid in its color range and unrelenting in its forms. Steven attacks the very essence of a definitive world. Good and evil, black and white, night and day, real and fantasy all become part of his aesthetics and encompass even his material and techniques.
"Naked" exhibit exposes abstract views of life
by Glenn Mcnatt, Art Critic, Baltimore Sun. Wednesday 7/19,2006 pp1E & 4E
-Steven Pearson, who has the largest number of works in the show, is also an abstract painter, but his method often involves a whimsical reiteration of familiar figurative forms until their original character is no longer recognizable. In these colorful, carefully organized canvases, one senses a world of identifiable shapes that seems to lie just beyond the ken of normal perception, but nonetheless remains vitally alive and cogent.
Still Liquid/Still Solid
By Pam Zappardino, Art Critic, Carroll County Times Friday, June 02, 2006
-Steven Pearson uses color and form to build tension so tight you can feel it. Organic shapes strain against geometrics, complementary colors bleeding into shades of similar hues. "Copulating" is constrained by its frame while fitting perfectly within it.
