Steven Assael: Paintings & Drawings at Forum Gallery

http://www.forumgallery.com/adetail.php?id=207 This piece showcases new works by figurative painter Steven Assael for an upcoming show (March 19th to May 2nd, 2009) at Forum Gallery, located at 745 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Included is an interview with the artist at his NYC Studio. Steven Assael was born in New York, New York in 1957. He attended Pratt Institute and presently teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Mr. Assael balances naturalism with a romanticism that permeates the figures and surroundings of his paintings and drawings. The focus of his work is the human figure, either individually or in a group, rendered in glowing relief by gentle beams of warm and cool light. Steven Assaels classical talents are as rare as they are essential to the diverse art world of the late Twentieth Century. Assael has had several solo shows nationally in recent months, including the Columbus Museum of Art, Cress Gallery of Art at the University of Tennessee, Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, and Forum Gallery in Los Angeles. In 1999, a retrospective one-person exhibition was held at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington. Steven Assaels work has also been exhibited at The Arkansas Arts Center, (AR), The New York Academy of Art, (NY), The Arnot Art Museum in (NY) and is represented in the public collections of The Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, (TN), The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (MO), The Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY). Forum Gallery, New York and Los Angeles, is a leader in the field of modern and contemporary figurative art. Founded in 1961, Forum Gallery today represents thirty contemporary artists, including Odd Nerdrum, William Beckman and Robert Cottingham; and the estates of Raphael Soyer, Chaim Gross and Bernard Karfiol. International in scope, Forum Gallery is the American representative of Xenia Hausner, Michael Leonard, David Mach, Charles Matton and Peter Krausz. Forum Gallery maintains an important inventory of American modernist and social realist art, European modernism and figurative art from 1900 to the present day. Over more than four decades in the fine art field, Forum Gallery has placed works in every major American museum and in private collections throughout the world. Forum Gallery is a founding member of the Art Dealers Association of America.

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YouTube | February 28, 2009

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