Steve Burtch: White Nights

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steve burtch white nights



steve burtch white nights



steve burtch white nights



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TIM NYE

a concerto of white

Even the subtlest addition of pigment

exploration of the possibilities that

to pure color can radically change

the technological advancement of

its intensity, but rarely does it

materials has released. The essence

increase the intensity. Add light to

is still simplicity, allowing the

the palette of pigments and color

intrinsic properties of the materials

theory becomes anachronistic. I won’t

to do the heavy lifting; much the way

hold a color theorist’s hand to the

a great chef allows their ingredients

candle; after all, they lacked the

to caress the palette.

insight that the Los Angeles artists, known as the “Light and Space” group,

These minimal white works are

developed with the use of plastics

composed of bands of acrylic white

and aerospace materials and their

paint articulated through three

associated translucent properties.

layers of translucent acrylic sheets

The limitations of luminescence are

backed by a layer of mirrored

detonated and the “painting” now has

acrylic. As the viewer “reads,” or

the power to burn our retina.

in a sense “listens” to the rhythm of the painting, notes are muted or

Steve Burtch is from a generation of

emphasized by the paints proximity to

artists that is looking at the optical

the surface. As light travels through

effects that the SOCAL group deployed

the layers and reflects back through

in the 60s and is conjuring these

the acrylic, the result is an optical

optical effects through a deeper

reverb, Burtch the maestro.


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biography

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SELEC T ED EXHIBI T IONS

ner, one day show: Todd Williamson • Steve Burtch • Joe Davidson • Villa di Donato — Piazza S. Eframo Vecchio, Naples, Italy

January 17 — March 2, 2013 • Nyehaus • White Nights • New York, NY

Fair: Post War and Contemporary • via Peter Blake Gallery • Palm Springs, CA

December 4 — 8, 2012 • Nyehaus & Nye + Brown • Rebels in Paradise • Bungalow 5 • Delano • Miami Beach, FL

January 18 — 22, 2012 • 17th Annual LA Art Show: Modern and Contemporary • via Peter Blake Gallery • Los Angeles, CA

October 24 — November 24, 2012 • Peter Blake Gallery • Transcending Abstraction III • Laguna Beach, CA

October 29 — November 20, 2011 • Peter Blake Gallery, James Hayward/Group Show • Back Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

September 27 — 30, 2012 • Art Platform • via Peter Blake Gallery • Santa Monica, CA

August 21 — September 30, 2011 • Peter Blake Gallery, Fall Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA

September 16 — October 1, 2010 • Peter Blake Gallery, Fall Selections: Recent Works from Gallery Artists, Laguna Beach, CA

July 10 — August 18, 2012 • Nye + Brown • Summer 2012 • Los Angeles, CA

May 31 — June 18, 2011 • Peter Blake Gallery, Summer Group Show, Laguna Beach, CA

August 7 — September 1, 2010 • Peter Blake Gallery, Summer Group Show, Laguna Beach, CA

June 23 — July 21, 2012 • Peter Blake Gallery • Transcending Abstraction II • Laguna Beach, CA

May 5 — June 18, 2011 • Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Deep, Juried Exhibition by Grace Kook-Anderson, Curator, Laguna Art Museum, Santa Ana, CA

May 6 — 29, 2010 • Peter Blake Gallery, Group Show, Back Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

May 17 — 20, 2012 • artMRKT San Francisco • via Peter Blake Gallery • San Francisco, CA April 28 — June 3, 2012 • Peter Blake Gallery • Steve Burtch • New Works • Laguna Beach, CA

March 12 — April 16, 2011 • Peter Blake Gallery, Selected Works from Gallery Artists, Laguna Beach, CA

March 11 — April 30, 2012 • Peter Blake Gallery • Transcending Abstraction• Laguna Beach, CA

January 15 — February 26, 2011 • Peter Blake Gallery, Winter Group Show, Laguna Beach, CA

February 17 — 19, 2012 • Palm Springs Fine Art

December 3, 2010 • Art 1307, one night, one din-

November 26 — 28, 2010 • Art 1307, Step09: Milan Art Fair, Milan, Italy October 9 — November 6, 2010 • Peter Blake Gallery, Introductions, Laguna Beach, CA


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ED U C AT I O N

SELEC T ED COLLEC T IONS

Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund — Educational Grant, United Kingdom — Dallas Museum of Art • Awarded grant to travel to the UK and study the works of Ben Nicholson & Barbara Hepworth.

Peter Blake • Laguna Beach, CA Susan Boland • New York, NY Gerald Buck/Buck Collection • Newport Beach, CA Les Edelberg • Corona del Mar, CA Richard Gaunt • Marina del Rey, CA Janet & Terry Hatchet • Newport Beach, CA Jean-Marc Herrouin • Los Angeles, CA Richard Holley • Houston, TX Linda & Mitch Katz • Newport Beach, CA Michael Lee • Malibu, CA Erica & Benjy Levit • Houston, TX Dianna Martin • Newport Beach, CA Joan McNamara • Los Angeles, CA Alice & Eric Moore • Dallas, TX Tim Nye • New York, NY Kimberly & Dennis Quaid • Pacific Palisades, CA

University of Houston, Houston, Texas — Master of Fine Arts candidate; Bachelor of Fine Arts • Studio Painting and Art History.


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