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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 > “New Art ‘08”, Hotel
Des Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 > “Group Show”, Roe
Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
2008 > “Group Show”, Artist
Exchange Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
2008 > “Spring Show”, Academy
of Art University, San
Francisco, CA
2008 > “Stories of the Urban
City: Urban Inspired Art”, San
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Statement for Steve Javiel
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Most of my work is non-representational due to my attraction to color, shape, form and texture.
The textured walls, graffiti, and posters of the urban streets of San Francisco where I walk everyday have been a large influence on my own painting style.
I start off walking around San Francisco taking pictures, and discovering new surfaces that I later develop into artwork. I am able to play with composition because I tend to zoom in and crop what I find most interesting in the pictures.
Once I have an idea I make a small study of the photograph, which will then be used for the larger work.
The majority of my work is on canvas, and the sizes vary from medium size to larger pieces. I enjoy working on larger mixed media paintings because they allow me to take images of urban streets and enlarge them to the point of abstraction. I strive to create richly textured surfaces using a variety of materials such as oil paint, acrylic, pumice, joint compound, paper, liquin, galkyd and spray paint. In this way, the urban textures are translated into the painting surfaces.
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