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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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Artist Reviews:
"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...
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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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Artist Statement for Stephen Warde Anderson
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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 techniques and Prismacolor overworkings, which characterizes my current work. I am a self-taught person as well, dropping out of the University of Chicago after one year to spend four years with the U.S. Navy on a frigate home-ported in Athens, Greece. Admiring, but not emulating traditional art and oblivious to current trends, I am an outsider artist. Born in 1953 in Rockford, Illinois, where I have spend almost all of my life (unmarried and living with my mother, brother, and sister), I am also an outsider person, and I bring to my art a ruggedly individual and idiosyncratic Midwestern conservatism.
My interest in vintage cinema, especially the old horror and sci-fi films, history, literature, costume design, UFOs, and Celtic culture have inspired most of my work, and an attraction for bright colors and glamorous ladies is obvious in it. I have produced a large number of feminine portraits and studies, fantasy tableaux, symbolic scapes, figurative scenes, as well as semi-traditional florals and scenes. There remains in them a blend of the naive and the neo-classical, and, I am told --- truthfully, I hope, --- an innocence, originality, and authenticity.
I have been working full-time as an artist for almost twenty years and latterly have become more and more dedicated to (and perhaps obsessed with) creating art, taking more and more time and care with my paintings and finding more intense motivation and richer and more varied inspiration. I am searching harder to find subject matter viewers will relate to and to create pictures that they will want to live in, artwork in which they may find lasting value and enjoyment.
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