Andrew Stevovich : Essential Elements

by Leeds, Valerie Ann

• ISBN13: 9781889097701
• ISBN10: 1889097705
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Hard Pr Inc

Summary

Occasionally, an artist's subject matter, technique and execution coincide with the cultural life of a given period. Such an event is occuring with Andrew Stevovich, master of wit, half-stories, pure line, daring color and flawless finishes. To view one of his canvases is to feel as though one has just had an apple martini at the King Cole Bar, or read a Jonathan Saffran Foer novel, or glimpsed on the street an enigmatic brunette in red lipstick and matching leather gloves take the hand of a bumbling European-looking man for whom we might have fond feelings. Though Stevovich has been showing his work for three and a half decades. his representation/abstract canvases have always seemed ahead of his time, out-of-sync, cutting-edge. That edge has arrived. -- From the Introduction by Anita Shreve Andrew Stevovich transports the viewer to modern everyday locations (beaches, subways, restaurants, racetracks, bars) as a hidden observer. Whether alone or seemingly alone in a crowd, Stevovich's characters are quiety preoccupied with the universal dramas of modern life: isolation, narcissism, boredom, the longing for intimacy and the fear of it. By virtue of his imagination, the narrative intrigues the viewer to contemplate their own interpretation. With more than 30 decades of work, 20 solor exhibitions and over 45 group exhibitions to his credit, this is the most extensive mid-career survey of Andrew Stevovich's oeuvre to date. This oversized hardcover monograph with 164 pages of full color reproductions is partnered with texts by Anita Shreve (best-selling novelist: The Pilot's Wife, A Wedding in December ), Carol Diehl (features writer for Art in America ) and John Sacret Young (television producer and writer - China Beach, The West Wing and author of The Weather Tomorrow, a novel).