Steven Assael



STEVEN ASSAEL

Born: New York, NY, 1957

Education:

1975-79 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1977 Independent Study in Europe, Pratt Scholarship

Teaching:

1985-Present School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

      1. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1999-Present Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1997-1999 New York Academy Graduate School, New York, NY

Awards:

1980 and 1990 Elizabeth T. Greenshields Grant

1977 Charles Romans Award

National Academy of Design, New York, NY

1975 Pratt Institute Full Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY

Selected One Person Exhibitions:

          2005 Steven Assael: New Paintings & Drawings, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

          2004 Steven Assael: Drawings & Paintings, Cress Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

          Steven Assael: 20th Century Figurative Master, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta GA

2002 Steven Assael: Paintings, Forum Gallery, New

          York, NY

      1. Steven Assael: Drawings from 1996-2001, Forum Gallery, New

          York, NY

      Steven Assael, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000 Steven Assael: Drawings, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL

      Steven Assael Paintings and Drawings, North Carolina State

        University at Chapel Hill, NC

      1. Steven Assael: A Decade of Painting and Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (cat.)

1998-99 New Paintings and Drawings by Steven Assael,

Forum Gallery, New York, NY (cat.)

1997 New Drawings, More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1996 New Paintings and Drawings, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc.,

New York, NY (cat.)

1995 Paintings and Drawings, Payne Gallery of Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

1994 Paintings and Drawings, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New York, NY

1991 Steven Assael: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper,

Gray Art Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

1990 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1989 Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

1980 National Arts Club, Gregg Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions:

          2006 The Art of Representation: Figures, Alva deMars Megan Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH

          2005 2005 Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

          Figurative Impulse, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

          New Old Masters, Naples Art Museum, Naples, FL

          Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA

          Enduring Roles and Realism: Building on the Murray Collection, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA

          2004 Commissioned/Non-Commissioned, Chung-Cheng Gallery, St. John's University, Queens, NY

Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Masters and Mavericks, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Invitational Exhibition, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

2003 MFA Faculty Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

        Realism Now, Boise State University, Boise, ID

        Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

        Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

        Magic Realism: A New Generation, Sangre de Christo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO

Transforming the Commonplace: Masters of Contemporary

Realism, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

      Grand Opening Exhibition, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA

      Modern and Contemporary Portraits curated by Townsend

        Wolfe, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

      1. Representations: The Art of Drawing, Schick Art Gallery,

        Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

        A Decade of American Contemporary Figurative Drawing,

        Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

        Carol Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, MA

2001-02 Magic Vision, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

      1. About Face, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

      Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersey Center for

        Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

      Tulsa Collects, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK

      National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little

        Rock, AR

2000 Re-presenting Representation, Corning Gallery at

        Steuben, New York, NY

      Drawings by 20th Century and Contemporary Masters, Forum

        Gallery, New York, NY

Drawing V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

      1. New Realism for a New Millennium, Memorial Art Gallery,

        University of Rochester, NY

        Fine Art Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

        Indomitable Spirits: The Figure at the End of the Century, Art

        Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA

1998 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK

It's Still Life, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Realism Knows No Bounds, Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

73rd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design,

New York, NY

The Figurative Impulse, Miami Dade Community College, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami, FL

1997 Drawn From the Faculty, New York Academy of Art, NY

Dramatic Realism: The New Baroque,

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

1996 American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, New York, NY

New York State Biennial, New York State Museum, Albany, NY

Reality Bytes, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO (cat.)

Invitational Figurative Group Exhibition, More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Holiday Exhibition, Laura Craig Galleries, Scranton, PA

1995 SPECTRUM, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

Collector's Show, The Arkansas Arts Center,

Little Rock, AK

Summer Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New York,

        NY

Live/Work, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

Summer Exhibition, Park Avenue Atrium, New York, NY

Realism '95, Vision and Poetry, Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Collecting with Richard Brown Baker, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1994 Realism(s), The Murray Collection, Scranton, PA

Getting Romantic Again, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New York, NY

Summer Gallery Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New

        York, NY

169th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New

          York, NY

1994 Drawings: Steven Assael/Adam Schnitzer, Tatistcheff/Rogers, Santa Monica, CA

Collection of Remak Ramsay, The Century Association,

New York, NY

1993 Re-Representing Representation, Arnot Art Museum

Elmira, NY

Summer Group Exhibition, Lewin Gallery, New York, NY

Inside Washington's Galleries, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.

Collectors Show, Drawing Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, AK

Contemporary Realism, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

Heroism: Contemporary Images, Peconic Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY

Art of Drawing, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

Silverpoint Etcetera: Contemporary American Metalpoint Drawings, The Arkansas Arts Center, AK

1992 Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

1991 Three Directions, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images: Two Aspects of Art of the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

New Horizons in American Realism, Flint Institute of Art, MI

Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

1990 Art of Fantasy, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Art of Drawing, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

Love and Charity: The Tradition of Caritas in Contemporary Painting, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY;

Travels to:

Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA;

Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY at Cortland, NY;

The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ;

Roland Gibson Gallery, SUNY at Potsdam, NY

      Fendrick at Foster, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire

        Artspace, Raleigh, NC

Gender: Out of the Garden, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York,

        NY; Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Revelation and Devotion, Sherry French Gallery, NY; Travels to:

Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA;

Art Gallery at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN;

Valparaiso University Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN;

Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

Gallery Painters, Staempfli Gallery, NY

National Academy of Design, New York, NY

1989 Memory and Artifact: Romanticism Revisited, Barbara Fendrick

        Gallery, NY; Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1983 New Realism, Mullaly Matisse Gallery, New York, NY

1981 Emerging Young Artists, Nardian Gallery, New York, NY

1980 Young Realists, Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

1979, 1978 Pratt Institute, NY

Selected Private and Public Collections:

The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK

    The Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

    Mr. Richard Brown Baker

    Mr. John Bolton

    Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Busquet

    Celestial Seasonings Corporation, Boulder, CO

    Columbus Museum Of Art, Columbus, OH

    Mr. and Mrs. Richard Danziger

    Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

    The Hunter Museum of Art, Chatanooga, TN

    Jalane and Richard Davidson

    The Juliet Museum of Art, Avampato Discovery Museum for the Arts & Sciences

K & B Corporation, New Orleans, LA

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO

Kumada Corporation, Kobe, Japan

Mr. Steve Martin

Dr. Thomas A. Mathews

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Messinger

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Murray Collection

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Segal

Mr. and Mrs. Toshio Takashima

Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson

Walt Disney Corporation, Burbank, CA


Selected Bibliography:

Bass, Ruth. "When a Rose is a Rose," Art News, February, 1996.

CBS, "Sunday Morning" Television Show, "A Look at a Modern Master," April 4,

1999

Codrington, Andrea. "Figuratively Speaking," Art and Auction, June, 1996.

Gehman, Geoff. "Spiritual Treasure Chest," Morning Call, January, 1996.

"Goings on About Town," New Yorker, November 12, 1990, p. 22.

Hagen, Charles. "In Connecticut, a Collector's Eclecticism," The New York Times, Friday, July 14, 1995.

Henry, Gerritt. "Steven Assael at Staempfli," Art in America, January, 1990.

"Steven Assael at Forum," Art in America, May, 1999.

Jaeger, William. "Biennial Exhibit of Extremes," Times Union, May 5, 1996.

Karnel, Pepe. "Depicting Multiculturalism," New York Times, September, 1995.

Lipson, Farin. "Portraits in Courage, Art and Poetry of Heroism," Newsday, March,

1992

Mann, James. "Steven Assael, Challenge of Realism," American Arts Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1996.

Newman, Sasha M., Collecting with Richard Brown Baker, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1995.

Raven, Arlene. Steven Assael: Selected Drawings, Linden Hill Art Books

"Steven Assael: Revealing Light," The World & I, August, 1999, pp. 122-127.

Welzenbach, Michael, "Dramas in Dark Detail: The Paintings of Steven Assael," The Washington Post, Saturday, May 19, 1990, p. C2.

Wilson, Janet, "Romantic Realism," The Washington Post, Saturday, June 1, 1991.

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