STEPHEN PENTAK Here Nor There
On Cover (cropped): 2014, X.VIII, 2014 Oil on panel 64 x 40 in.
STEPHEN PENTAK Here Nor There January 8th – February 7th 2014 529 W. 20th St., Ste. 6W New York, NY 10011
Nearly Opposite all there is in pain,ng is form all that ma1ers in pain,ng is content all there is in pain,ng is surface all that ma1ers in pain,ng is space all there is in pain,ng is personal all that ma1ers in pain,ng is universal all there is in pain,ng is presenta,on all that ma1ers in pain,ng is representa,on all there is in pain,ng is contrast all that ma1ers in pain,ng is accord; an echo all there is in pain,ng is complexity all that ma1ers in pain,ng is simplicity all there is in pain,ng is s,llness all that ma1ers in pain,ng is movement all that ma1ered in a pain,ng is gone all that ma1ers in a pain,ng is present all that pain,ng is, is chiaroscuro Stephen Pentak, 2011
2014, X.I, 2014 Oil on panel 18 x 72 in.
2014, X.III, 2014 Oil on panel 18 x 72 in.
2014, X.IV, 2014 Oil on panel 36 x 36 in.
Stephen Pentak’s formative work explored abstraction, though it was always informed by nature. His highly developed, mature style now depicts landscape with particular attention given to composition. The underlying structure lends a grounded tranquility to his imagery. Pentak continues to expand on his extended series of landscapes, creating a rhythmic sense of space between the middle ground and foreground. Though each scene is inspired by an actual place, Pentak paints only from memories of his frequent hiking trips and fly-fishing adventures across the country. He uses variations on iconic themes: a bend in a river, a point of land, an island, and always a broad expanse of reflective water. Painting wet on wet and wet on dry techniques with large house paint brushes, palette knives and scrapers, he brings all the elements together with an atmospheric perspective that simultaneously expands space and enhances the sense of stillness. “I mix paint, cover paint and scrape down to a color underneath, right on the surface of the painting,” he says. “The panel gives me a hard resistant surface I can scrape against.”
(Detail) 2014, X.V, 2014 Oil on panel 36 x 36 in.
2014, XI.I, 2014 Oil on panel 18 x 72 in Â
2014, X.V, 2014 Oil on panel 36 x 36 in.
2014, X.VI, 2014 Oil on panel 36 x 36 in.
2014, X.VII, 2014 Oil on panel 64 x 40 in.
EDUCATION 1978 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1973 BA, Union College, Schenectady, NY SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIONS 2013 A Painterly Nature, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta GA, The Modern Landscape, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe NM Dual Nature, The Haen Gallery, Asheville NC Selected Works, Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach CA 2012 Persistent Image, The Keny Galleries, Columbus, OH Nearly Opposite, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY 2011 The Haen Gallery, Asheville, NC 2010 Kinderhook Creek, Keny Galleries, Columbus, OH Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 2009 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY Tender Rivers, Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA The Haen Gallery, Asheville, NC Marie Park, Dallas, TX 2008 Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH Gibsone Jessop, Toronto, ON Keny Galleries, Columbus, OH 2007 Trasimeno, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY Trasimeno, Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis TN 2006 Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, ON Union College, Schenectady NY Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA 2005 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY Gallery V, Columbus, OH Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis TN 2004 Concept Art Gallery, Pi1sburgh, PA Unending River, Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA 2003 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY Gallery V. Columbus, OH Denise Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, CA 2002
Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinna,, OH Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN
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1999 1998 1998
1997 1996 1994 1993 1992 1988 1987 1986 1985 1983 1980 1979
Denise Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY 2001 Cicero Galllery, Chicago, IL Denise Roberge, Palm Desert, CA Juniata College Museum of Art, Juniata, PA Gallery V, Columbus, OH Bonfoey Co., Cleveland, OH Concept Art, Pi1sburgh, PA Rivers Revisited, Linda Schwartz, Cincinna,, OH Denise Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH Denise Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH Marie Park, Dallas, TX Gallery V, Columbus, OH Linda Schwartz, Lexington, KY Spangler Cummings, Columbus, OH Spangler Cummings, Columbus, OH Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinna,, OH Elemental Structures, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL PainIngs From the Broadwaters, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Hopkins Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH Belmont Gallery, Columbus, OH People, Places, Pictures, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH Noel Butcher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012
2011 2010 2007 2003 2002 2000 1999
1997 1995 1995
1994 1993 1992
Stephen Pentak and Leslie Wu, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL Inside/Outside, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, NY Lay of the Land, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Wet, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH MaOer of RepresentaIon, The Works, Newark, OH Four ArIsts, Costello Childs Contemporary, Sco1sdale, AZ Chautauqua Summer FesIval, Chautauqua NY Stephen Pentak and Clayton Merrell, Concept Art, Pi1sburgh, PA Landscapes: Real and Imagined, Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA Untrodden Paths, Massilon Museum, Massilon, OH 25th Anniversary ExhibiIon, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Common Ground, The Ar,sts House, Jerusalem, Israel Fall, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL Common Ground, Riffe Gallery Columbus, OH; Weston Gallery, Cincinna,, OH 1998 Back to Reality, More and Less, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH Earthly Visions, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL Four Landscape Painters, Concept Art, Pi1sburgh, PA Delfina Studios, London, England Linda Schwartz, Cincinna,, OH Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, OH Off The Wall, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Toni Birckhead, Cincinna,, OH Stephen Boody Fine Art, St. Louis, MO Galbreath Gallery, Lexington, KY Toni Birckhead, Cincinna,, OH Kathryn Fleck Gallery, Aspen, CO Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Gallery Group Show, J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL Ohio State University/Ohio University Exchange, Ohio University, Athens, OH
1991
J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL Ohio State University PainIng Faculty, Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, IN Roberta Kuhn, Columbus, OH 1990 ArIsts Who Teach, Emery Center of the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinna,, OH Ohio SelecIons IX, Cleveland Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland, OH 1989 Landscape, Roberta Kuhn Gallery, Columbus, OH 1988 Landscape Anthology, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY Columbus Collects, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 1987 Accent on Landscapes: PainIngs by Ohio ArIsts From the Permanent CollecIon, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 1986 PainIng Faculty, Ohio State University, Denison University, Granville, OH Governor's Residence CollecIon, Columbus, OH Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL AbstracIon, Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinna,, OH 1985 Columbus Art League, Columbus, OH Belmont Gallery, Columbus, OH John Pearson and Stephen Pentak, Ohio State University, Newark, OH 1984 Columbus Art League, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Summer Group Show, Noel Butcher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Gallery Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL 1982 New Drawing in America, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Paint on Paper, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL 1981 Statements on the Picture Plane, Butcher and More Galleries, Philadelphia, PA UnItled: 1981, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA 1980 Third Anniversary ExhibiIon, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 1979 New Shipment, Kansas State University, Manha1an, KS Faculty ExhibiIon, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1978 Neill Gallery, New York, NY Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Ohio Bar Associa,on, Columbus, OH PharmaNet, Princeton NJ Borden Interna,onal, Columbus, OH Central Trust Bank Corpora,on, Cincinna,, OH Ponoma Valley Medical Ctr., Santa Monica, CA Robert Liebert, Delaware, OH. Cincinna, Gas and Electric, Cincinna,, OH Clark State Performing Arts Center, Springfield, Ron Pizuh, Columbus, OH Scripps Howard, Cincinna,, OH OH Spruce, Chicago, IL Conair, Pi1sburgh, PA State Automobile Insurance, Columbus, OH Coopers, Lybrand, Columbus, OH Susan and Rocky Saxbe, Columbus, OH Emmends, Hurd, Kegler and Ri1er Co., The Hun,ngton Na,onal Bank, Columbus, OH Columbus, OH The Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY Fidelity Investments, Blue Ash, OH The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH Fishel Co., Columbus, OH Thomson Electronics, Circleville, OH Frank Elmer and Ruth Gless, Columbus, OH U.S. Shoe, Cincinna,, OH General American Life, St. Louis, MO Hahn Loeser Parks, Cleveland and Columbus, OH Visi,ng Nurses Associa,on, Cleveland, OH Wendt, Bristol, Columbus, OH Hallmark, Kansas City, MO Wiley Publishing, Hoboken, NJ Hun,ngton Mortgage, Columbus, OH William H. Mercer Inc., Columbus, OH Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland, OH Wood Development, Columbus, OH Louisville Water, Louisville, KY Yellow Freight, Kansas City, MO Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ri1er, Columbus, OH Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey McMullen, Bucks County, PA Mr. And Mrs. Rich Langdal, New Albany, OH Mr. Bruce Berry, Chicago, IL Mr. William E. O'Reilly, Salander & O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY Mr. William Ginn, Cleveland, OH Mrs. Joanne Hickey, Bal,more, OH NCR, Boston, MA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
2002 Ohio Arts Council Individual Ar,st Fellowship, Columbus, OH 2001 Ohio State University, College of the Arts, Columbus, OH 2000 Ohio State University, College of The Arts Travel Grant to Israel, Columbus, OH 1997 Ohio Arts Council Individual Ar,st Fellowship, Columbus, OH 1996 Ohio State University, College of The Arts Level One Research Grant, Columbus, OH 1994 Ohio State University, College of The Arts Research Grant, Columbus, OH 1993 Ohio State University, College of The Arts Research Grant, Columbus, OH 1991 Ohio State University, Faculty Research Grant, Columbus, OH 1989 Ohio State University, Faculty Research Grant, Columbus, OH Ohio Arts Council Individual Ar,st Fellowship, Columbus, OH 1988 GCAC Commission: Purchase of a pain,ng for Business-‐Arts Partnership Award, Columbus, OH 1986 GCAC Commission: Purchase of two pain,ngs for Business-‐Arts Partnership Award, Columbus, OH Ohio State University, Seed Grant, Research and Graduate Studies, Columbus, OH 1985 Ohio Arts Council Individual Ar,st Fellowship, Columbus, OH 1985 Ohio State University, Research Grant, Research and Graduate Studies, Columbus, OH 1984 Ohio State University, College of the Arts Faculty Research and Development Grant, Columbus, OH Columbus Museum of Art Award for Pain,ng, and Simson Purchase Award, Columbus, OH
(Detail) 2014, XI.I, 2014 Oil on panel 64 x 40 in.