LewAllen Galleries Presents Works By Jeanette Pasin Sloan & Steve Smulka

Written by Alexander Leyland Monday, 12 September 2011 22:18

Santa Fe, NM.- LewAllen Galleries is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, "Bending Light: Jeanette Pasin Sloan & Steve Smulka". On view at LewAllen Galleries Downtown from August 5th through September 5th, the exhibition presents works by two leading artists who actively blur traditional genre distinctions to expand the range of contemporary representational painting.

Noted realist painter Jeanette Pasin Sloan brings still life painting to the edge of abstraction with her meticulous renderings of reflection and distortion. Evoking Op Art’s investigations into the dynamics of vision, her images of polished domestic objects reflecting the geometric patterns of decorator fabrics address the continuing resonance of Modernist aesthetics through their precision of design and composition. Her distinctive artworks in oils, gouache, and watercolor, are included in such significant public collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art, among numerous others. Sloan holds a BFA from Marymount College in New York and an MFA from the University of Chicago. The artist lives and works in New Mexico.

Steve Smulka has garnered international recognition for his novel approach toward contemporary realism. Extending the focus of the still life genre to annex elements of landscape painting, his work blurs the divide between traditional artistic categories. Further distinguished by his signature motif—the subtle modulations of light passing through oversized bottles, jars, and decanters—Smulka’s art has been collected by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Oakland Art Museum, and the Scottsdale Museum of Art, among many others. A two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, he was born in Detroit and studied at the University of Massachusetts and the School of Visual Arts in New York under acclaimed photorealist painter Chuck Close. The artist lives and works in New Mexico.


LewAllen Galleries is one of the oldest and largest galleries of leading contemporary and modern art outside of New York City. Exhibiting in three locations, LewAllen is widely respected as one of the leading fine art venues in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the nation's second largest art market. Operating for more than 35 years on Palace Avenue near the New Mexico Museum of Art, the gallery maintains a robust show schedule each year in its 11,000 square feet of museum-like exhibition space. It has recently completed a stunning 14,000 square foot, architecturally forward new gallery building in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District. LewAllen also operates a satellite gallery at the luxurious Encantado Resort by Auberge in Tesuque, north of the City of Santa Fe.

The Contemporary Division features work in a variety of media and its artists represent many schools of contemporary art, including Realist, Pop, Abstract, Color Field, Minimalist, Op, Geometric Abstraction and Expressionist. Its internationally diverse roster includes such noted artists as Audrey Flack, Woody Gwyn, Judy Chicago, John Fincher, Emily Mason, Bernard Chaet, Robert Natkin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Forrest Moses, Hiroshi Yamano, Janet Fish, Ed Mieczkowski and Bill Barrett, among others. During its history, the gallery has also presented the work of such historically notable artists as Fritz Scholder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Colescott, Luis Jimenez, Ida Kohlmeyer, Thornton Dial, Donald Roller Wilson and Larry Rivers, among many others.

The Modern Division is fortunate to represent fine collections, museums, and individuals in assisting placement in the secondary market for American and European Modernist works of distinction and unusual quality. The Department employs professional art historical resources and prides itself on diligence regarding provenance and authentication as well as unusual levels of research, and curatorial attention dedicated to presenting museum-level exhibitions of signal works of the Modern era. Representative works of uncustomary importance to major international collections include those by such Modern masters as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Renoir, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Amedeo Modigliani, among numerous others.

Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.lewallengalleries.com

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