Working from Life

Steven Shearer: Working From Life

Publisher: DCV

Publication Date: 2023

Steven Shearer (b. New Westminster, BC, 1968; lives and works in Vancouver) works in a range of media including printmaking, sculpture, painting, drawing, and collages of found photographs. His portraits of individuals in decorated settings earned Shearer international acclaim. They show heroes from the past-protagonists of musical subcultures or the history of art. The archetypal creative minds in their studios appear together with their works; the interiors surrounding them reflect their psychological constitution. Shearer paints them in the style of Symbolism, the German Romantics, or the Fauves. Imitating the perspective painting of the Renaissance, he virtually pulls the beholder into his pictures.

Details

Publisher: DCV

Artist: Steven Shearer

Publication Date: 2023

ISBN: 9783969120422

Retail: $60 | £54

Status: Available

Binding: Hardcover

Dimensions: 9.5 × 13 in | 24 × 33cm

Pages: 356

Artist and Contributors

Steven Shearer

Canadian artist Steven Shearer (b. 1968) has developed a painting practice that weds canonical art history to the contemporary moment, specifically its more plebeian or subterranean expressions. His work, which also includes drawing, assemblage, sculpture, and installation, deploys a wide range of references as well as a vast archive of historical and contemporary found images.

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