Andrew Stevovich ( ; born 1948) is an American painter. He is best known for oil paintings and pastels that combine abstract formalities with a figurative narrative. He has also produced

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s, and wood-block prints.

Biography

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Andrew Stevovich oil painting, In the Garden, 2006-2007 62

Stevovich was born in

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in 1948, coming to the United States with his family in 1950. He grew up in

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and graduated from the

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in 1970. He earned his Masters in Fine Arts from the

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art school ...

. His first solo exhibition took place in 1971 at the Alpha Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. Since 1981, he has been represented by Warren Adelson in New York City, first at the Coe Kerr Gallery and after 1991 at the Adelson Galleries. A retrospective exhibition took place at the

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in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1999. In 2008–2009, another retrospective, ''The Truth About Lola'', curated by Bartholomew Bland, took place at the

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in Yonkers, New York, and traveled to the

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, Florida. Stevovich's work is in numerous public collections, including the

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, the

, the DeCordova Museum, the

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, and the

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in Maine. Major influences on the development of his work include

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and other early Italian artists, as well as

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and German Expressionists such as

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. His work has been described by

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as a "successful fusion of the classicism of the Flemish and Italian Renaissance painters to his contemporary subject matter." The art critic,

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wrote:

Obsessed with paring down compositions to their essential elements, Stevovich has a passion for simplicity. At the same time, he's also fascinated by complexity—pattern and repetition—which, by its nature, requires a plethora of shapes or images. His work, therefore, is all about the marriage of these opposites.

Stevovich lives and works in Massachusetts.

''Beasts and Citizens''

In 2000, Stevovich created a series of eight etchings for ''Beasts and Citizens'', a limited edition book of forty

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s by Jean de La Fontaine, translated from the French by Craig Hill. One hundred and thirty-five copies were printed and bound with the etchings. The images were loosely based on the fables ''Discord'', '' The Lion's Share'', '' The Fox and the Grapes'', ''The Mountain That Labored'', ''The Swallow and the Nightingale'', ''Doctors'', ''The Two Bulls and the Frog'', and ''The Cat Who Became a Woman''.

Selected solo exhibitions

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: Greenville, South Carolina 2020 *Adelson Galleries: New York, New York 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2015 *Adelson Galleries Boston: Boston, Massachusetts 2012, 2015, 2018 *Alpha Gallery: Boston, Massachusetts 1971, 1973, 1976, 1978 *

: Boca Raton, Florida 2009 *Coe Kerr Gallery: New York, New York 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990 *Danforth Museum of Art: Framingham, Massachusetts 1999, 2007 *

: Yonkers, New York 2008 – 2009 *Little Center Gallery:

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, Worcester, Massachusetts 1980 *Mitsukoshi Gallery: Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan 1996 *

: New Britain, Connecticut 1975 *Pisa Galleries: Tokyo, Japan 1992 *Tatistcheff-Rogers Gallery: Santa Monica, California 1989, 1993 *Terrence Rogers Fine Art: Santa Monica, California 2000 *Virginia Lynch Gallery: Tiverton, Rhode Island 1992, 2002

Publications

Books about Andrew Stevovich

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Selected reviews and texts

* Bergeron, Chris (October 25, 2007)
"Uncomfortably Numb"
''MetroWest Daily News'' (Massachusetts). Retrieved 15 December 2013. * Cohen, Ronny (April 1990). "Andrew Stevovich". ''Artforum'' (New York). * Gardner, James (October 18, 2007)
Dispassionate Perfectionist".
''New York Sun''. Retrieved 15 December 2013. * Garnett, Adrienne (Winter 2008–2009). "Outside, Inside, Future, Then, and Now". ''Art of the Times'' (Florida). * Genocchio, Benjamin (December 19, 2008)

''The New York Times''. Retrieved 15 December 2013. *Kologe, Brian R. (May 1980). "Andrew V. Stevovich". ''Art New England'', vol.1, no. 6. * Nigrosh, Leon (September 10–16, 1999)

''Worcester Phoenix'' (Massachusetts). Retrieved 15 December 2013. * Stapen, Nancy (February 1982). "Andrew Stevovich". ''Art New England'', vol.3, no. 3. * Taylor, Robert (January 10, 1982). "Stevovich Conveys Today's Edginess and Ambiguity". ''The Boston Globe''. * Temin, Christine (October 6, 1999). "Incredible Lightness of Stevovich". ''The Boston Globe''.

References

External links

Stevovich website
Images of paintings, articles and reviews, and exhibition history. Retrieved 15 December 2013.

Retrieved 15 December 2013.
Adelson Galleries New York website.
Retrieved 15 December 2013.
Adelson Galleries Boston website.
Retrieved 15 December 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stevovich, Andrew 1948 births Living people American contemporary painters 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Artists from Massachusetts Rhode Island School of Design alumni Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumni Austrian emigrants to the United States 20th-century American male artists