Steven Nederveen: Light Play

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Steven Nederveen, "Like Water and Fire," 2018

mixed media on panel, 48" x 48"

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 11, 2 - 4 pm

The horizon is at once both the line where the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet and the limit of a person's mental perception or experience. Engaging with this semantic duality, Steven Nederveen’s panel surfaces, too, present a horizon: the boundary at which the artist and audience make contact. This interest in the horizon is the focus of Nederveen’s upcoming exhibition Light Play, on view this August at Bau-Xi Vancouver.

As part of his ongoing exploration of the natural environment and the landscape tradition, Nederveen’s evolving practice incorporates photographic technique, painterly brushstrokes and gestural mark-making. The artist’s multi-layered process explores these sites of exchange with in-depth studies of water surface, panoramic vistas of sky, and immersive atmospheric scenes of the liminal space between.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Steven Nederveen’s work deals with our natural environment and aspects of spirituality through an artistic process that combines painting and photography. By collapsing mediums, Nederveen develops a magical realism that insists on new perspectives on the landscape genre. Through painterly manipulations of the work, he creates the sense of a competing past and present; of struggle and transformation.

Steven Nederveen studied fine art at Medicine Hat College and went on to receive a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta in 1995. His work is featured internationally in galleries, art fairs, magazines, and many private collections. His studio is currently based out of Toronto.