Steven Nederveen "Attachment in a Floating World"

Rebecca Hossack Gallery NYC

poster for Steven Nederveen "Attachment in a Floating World"

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Steven Nederveen’s latest body of work continues his meditations on spiritualism and the natural world. Using a combination of materials and methodologies, these particular works depict highly aesthetic painted environments inhabited by photographed animals, and are occasionally prompted by wistful phrases. With his artworks Nederveen sets up an aesthetic exchange between what is natural and what is imposed. His painterly interventions on photographs accentuate their beauty to a near-religious plane. This is evident in his use of opulent colors and lyrical paintwork. His techniques, which move between computerized editing of the photograph, to the canvas being physically enhanced with paint and coats of resin, explore what it is to intervene and what that now means to the concept of naturalism in a modern world. The lines between photography and painting, realism and mysticism are subsequently left undefined.

Nederveen’s style is very much influenced by Japanese aestheticism, captured by the Japanese term Wabi Sabi. It suggests a transient, ephemeral beauty. His work not only celebrates the cycles of nature - its existence as well as its inevitable decay - but also depicts an otherworldliness of what lies beyond the canvas and indeed beyond nature itself.

Steven Nederveen studied fine art at Medicine Hat College and went on to gain a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta in 1995. His work has been shown extensively in international exhibitions, art fairs and publications and occupies a place within many private collections. Nederveen’s own practice of meditation is very influential towards his art and the space created within the work itself.

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from May 16, 2012 to June 10, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-05-16

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