Stephen Maine
P15-1130 (2015)
Stephen Maine is a New York painter and writer who lives in West Cornwall, Connecticut. From 1982 until 2017, he lived and worked in New York City (and, for a few years, in Jersey City) and his approach to process-oriented, color-centric abstraction is molded by that experience. Recently, his work has been seen in NYC at Hionas Gallery, the National Arts Club, Silas von Morisse Gallery, Gallery Petit, and Odetta; and in northwestern Connecticut at Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Five Points Gallery, Icehouse Project Space, and Furnace/Art on Paper Archive. Maine’s solo exhibitions have been reviewed in ARTnews, Artcritical.com, the Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint, and The New Criterion. He has received support from NYFA (2000) and Yaddo (2012) and is a longstanding member of American Abstract Artists and the International Association of Art Critics. Maine’s writing has appeared regularly in Art in America, ARTnews, Artnet magazine, the New York Sun, Art on Paper, and Artillery; currently he writes primarily for Hyperallergic.com. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts; Parsons The New School; Hartford Art School, University of Hartford; and Purchase College, SUNY, where he is Chair of the Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts program.
Statement:
Some years ago, it occurred to me that conveying paint to canvas by means of a system that uses printing plates instead of brushes would save a lot of time and trouble. This indirect, intentionally imprecise production method yields the great pleasure of surprise while providing a concrete way to think about color, surface, scale, seriality, figure/ground, original/copy, and the psychology of visual perception.
EDUCATION
2014 MFA in Visual Art, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
1982 BFA in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1981 Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
1977-9 School of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1977 Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
1975 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Cupcake Uptake and the Cloud of Unknowing, Furnace/Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT
2020 Shrinkwrap, Calendar, Albuquerque, NM
2019 Stephen Maine: Press Play, ODETTA/1stdibs Gallery, New York
2018 Stephen Maine: New Paintings, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
Fire and Ice, ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT
Stephen Maine: Eight Paintings, Silas von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2017 Stephen Maine: New Paintings, Hionas Gallery, New York
2015-2016 Stephen Maine: Residue, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2015 Stephen Maine: New Paintings, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Stephen Maine: Halftone Paintings, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Maine: Paintings, Melville House, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Stephen Maine: New Paintings, 354 Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art Library Special Collection, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Art in Embassies Collection, US Department of State, Washington, DC
Yale University Art Galleries, New Haven, CT
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Here and There, cur. David Row, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
A World Away, a Thought Apart, Gallery Petite, Brooklyn, NY
Equivalents, cur. John Cox, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
Painting by Proxy, cur. Joan Grubin, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY
2020 Art Off-Screen, cur. Eileen Jeng Lynch, Neumeraki Projects
Let the Sky Soak In, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY2019 Abstraction, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
Faculty Exhibition, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Earthly Delights, RE Institute, Millerton, NY
Summer 2019 Viewing Room, Hionas Gallery, New York, NY
Parameters, cur. Dan Rosenbaum, The Clemente, New York, NYThe Idiosyncratic Pencil Resharpened, cur. Ann Stoddard, Harper Center for the Arts, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina
2018 Mesmerize, Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Beyond Black and White, cur. Henry Brown and Li Trincere, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY2017 Outside In, cur. Scott Reeds, Felician University, Rutherford, NJ
Engineering an Abstraction, Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY
Vibrant, cur. Claire McConaughy, Bergen Gallery, Paramus, NJ
Small Painting, County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Oppler, cur. Mel Prest, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2016 Inaugural exhibition, County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
on, on and on, cur. Kirk Stoller, c2c, San Francisco , CA
Chromatic Space, cur. James Lippincott, Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York
Visible Histories, cur. Max Weintraub, Morris-Warren Gallery, NY
The Onward of Art, cur. Karen Wilkin, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery (UBS Gallery), New York (Jan. 18–March 25). (catalogue)2015 Endless, Entire, cur. Rachel Nackman, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY
Diphthong, Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY
Stack/File, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY2014 Doppler Shift, cur. Mary Birmingham, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (catalogue)
Sensory Impact, Morgan Stanley & Co., Purchase, NY
For Leo: American Abstract Artists Tribute Exhibition, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY2013 Physical Property, cur. Kim Uchiyama, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Doppler, cur. Mel Prest, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
Dynamic Invention: American Abstract Artists at 75, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
CONstruct/conSTRUCT: The Organizing Principle, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA