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Rick Stevens

Rick Stevens

My work may be seen as an open window to other realms. Its visual vocabulary has evolved from years of painting the landscape. I think of nature as a continuous flow of shapes and patterns of energy that has, or more precisely is, an intelligent force. There has been a resurgence in the field of science (especially in physics) that corresponds with the domain of mystics. Matter and energy are interchangeable, all the forces and particles in nature are one, just different ripples on the the ocean of consciousness: a Unified Field.

My process is a journey of exploration of color, light, texture and the poetics of space. A sense of structure is important to me, but I avoid strong divisions. I require a certain ‘fluidity’ where everything is flowing into the next thing. My compositions are infused with an overall light that is all-inclusive. A sort of self generating light rather than one coming from an external source. This doesn’t allow anything to be read as separate from the whole. There is diversity, just like in the natural world, but there is an underlying unity that is apparent.

EDUCATION
1982 Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan | Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
1979-81 Kendall School of Design
1977-79 Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, Michigan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Dancing in Paradox | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
2017
Loitering in Mystery | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
Familiar Connections | Miller Gallery | Cincinnati, OH
2016
Tranquility in Motion | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
Invocations | Exhibit by Aberson | Tulsa, OK
2015
The Nature of What Arises | Canfin Gallery | Tarrytown, NY
Interwoven Life | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
2014 Wilderness Within | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
2013
Domain of Intangibles | Mark Gallery | Englewood, NJ
Nothing But Life | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
2012
Weaving Worlds | Mark Gallery | Englewood, NJ
Perpetual Unfolding | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
Shaping the Unknown | Gallery KH | Chicago, IL
2011 Potentiality | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
2010
Luminous Terrain  | Mark Gallery | Englewood, NJ
Between Connections | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
2009
Picture Music | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, New Mexico
Invoking the Unknown | Gallery KH | Chicago, Illinois
2008
Diverging Elements | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
Directional Developments | Gallery KH | Chicago, IL
2007 Evolving Structures | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
2006 Emerging Balance | Hunter Kirkland Contemporary | Santa Fe, NM
2002
Nature's Harmony | Hankins Gallery | Lansing, MI
Beaver Island Perspective | Montaage, Beaver Island, MI
2001 New Work | Michael FitzSimmons Dec. Arts | Chicago, IL
2000 
Light and Reflection | Hankins Gallery | Lansing, MI
Mindscape/Landscape | The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
1999 
New Paintings | The David Klein Gallery | Birmingham, MI
Land, Light, and Luminosity | LaFontsee Galleries | Grand Rapids, MI
1997
Elemental Harmony | Brauer Museum of Art | Valparaiso, IN
1995 Fountain Street Church | Grand Rapids, Michigan
1994
God’s Quiet Things; illustrations from the picturebook | Shibui Gallery | Grand Rapids, MI
Witness | Newaygo County Council for the Arts | Fremont, MI
1993 Isle Royale Artist-in-Residence Exhibition | Shibui Gallery | Grand Rapids, MI
1992 Re-Emergence | Shibui Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
1991 Secrets of Balance | Shibui Gallery | Grand Rapids, MI
1990 Lowell Area Arts Council | Lowell, MI
1989 Sylvan Light | Grand Rapids Community College | Grand Rapids, MI
1988  Realms of Nature: Unfolding Patterns | Muskegon Museum of Art | Muskegon, MI
1986 Fountain Street Church | Grand Rapids, Michigan
1984 Elementary Harmony | City Art Gallery | Grand Rapids, MI
1983
Partners Gallery | Lansing, MI
Spirit of Landscape | City Art Gallery | Grand Rapids, MI

COLLECTIONS
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, NM
Almutiaq Group, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
World Trade Center Hotel, Beijing China
Goldman Sachs, NY
St. Johns College, MD
Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart, GA, FL
RDV Sportsplex, FL
Brauer Museum of Art
Muskegon Museum of Art
Grand Valley State University
Governors Mansion, Mackinac Island, Michigan
Herman Miller
Dow Chemicals
Steelcase, Inc.
Bissell, Inc.
Calvin College
Northern Trust, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt and Howlett
Warner, Norcross and Judd
Michigan National Bank
Beaumont Hospital
Spectrum Health
Alticor

Work by Rick Stevens

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