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Artist Statement:
I am a self-taught artist and
have always developed my own
methods and techniques which
have evolved from a
pointillist style with dried
tempera paint mixed with
saliva applied with plastic
styluses and sewing needles to
a more conventional, but still
unique style using acrylic
paint with oil painting ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Visages: Face Revisited,
Rockford Art Museum ,
Rockford, IL, Jan. 16 - April
5, 2009
Stars of the Silver Screen,
Hollywood Portraits by Stephen
Warde Anderson South Shores
Arts Gallery, 1040 Ridge Road,
Mundster, IN, October 24-
November 30, 2008
Fairy Tales, One-man
exhibition at Packer-Schopf
Gallery, 942 West Lake ...
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Artist Galleries:
Packer Schopf Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois
Tory Folliard Gallery,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Grey Carter (Greyart),
Washington, D.C.
Art Corporation, Rockford,
Illinois...
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Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago,
Roger Brown Collection
Smithsonian Art Museum,
Washington, DC
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford,
Illinois, USA
Freeport Art Center, Freeport,
Illinois, USA
Keith Sadler, Chicago,
Illinois
Michael Hall, Michigan, USA
Chuck Rosenak, New Mexico, USA
John Balsley, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, USA
Josh Feldstein, Gainesville,
Florida, USA
Chuck Goodstein, Los ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Stephen Warde Anderson:
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"Stephen Warde Anderson has developed an unusual pointillist style of painting. And his women are fascinating --- part human and part goddess. He is best known in the Midwest, and even though he is still developing, his work has found its way into many folk art collections." Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists New York, 1990.
"...a body of work of considerable strangeness ... The paintings are intensely romantic in an adolescent way. The women are shown as both prim and carnal. The paintings are about sexy women, but they are not sexy themselves. Instead, these paintings are full of a kind of yearning idealism. ... the works have an emotional sincerity that can't be faked." Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun-Times june 19, 1992.
"Anderson quickly reveals an almost limitless capacity for art appreciation; ... His inner drive is to create art, to learn about it, and to pursue it to the point of obsession. ... Anderson's art is an exemplary testament to the pure nature of the best of self-taught artists." Annabelle Halber Massey, Dallas Observer October 21, 1999.
"Anderson's portraits are precise and intense, with a mysterious remoteness. ... The women are invariably voluptuous and romantic, yet prim and detached, as though they are looking into another world. ... Anderson creates his own genre of the Hollywood actress as temptress and icon, which he presents with a skill unusual for a self-taught artist." John Hood Encyclopedia of American Folk Art New York, 2004.
"Anderson's work has a following because he appears to do effortlessly what lots of educated artists try to do and fail: he makes fanciful, fantasy-centered art full of belief and devoid of irony. ... What is interesting about Anderson's work, for all its garishness and primitivism, is the earnestness with which it is painted. There's no returning to this kind of self-absorbed naivete for trained artists, but in an art world full of faux innocents, it is useful to see the real thing." Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun Times, September 24, 2004.
"... a self-taught portraitist, intent on capturing women in all of their allegorical beauty, ... has a firm grip on narrative works replete with ladies and critters sprung from his splendid imagination." Judith Ann Moriarty, www.susceptibletoimages.com, January 31, 2007.
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