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Light is the quintessential component in Steven Gordons powerfully luminous landscapes of California. They derive their strength from the artists intimate dialogue with land and light At times I feel as if Im painting with light. Its exciting to take something so completely ephemeral and control and create with it. Since his arrival in California from the Midwest Gordon has been focusing on the visual impact of changing light effects in the Napa Valley wine growing region of California. Continuously exploring and formulating new visions, he has been producing pastel and oil paintings of rare immediacy.

Steven Gordon grew up in his native town of Waukegan, Illinois. After having been self-taught in his early years, he decided on formal training in the arts. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelors degree in art. For his masters program, he chose Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri where he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting.

After graduate school Steven Gordon came west to settle in the Napa Valley. He secured a job with a local winery in Yountville which turned out to be a fruitful relationship since Gordon was given an annual showing of his works at the winery visitors center. It also enabled the artist and his wife to travel annually to Europe to study various museum and gallery collections.

Certain insights might have been gained during these travels, but it was the unique character of Californias landscapes and Gordons predilection for pastels that made him find his own imagery. He painted exclusively in oils during his earlier years, doing his preliminary works in pastels They became more and more exciting to me. I discovered the immediate sensory qualities of pastel. ... My paintings are translations of the lyrical, real and abstract qualities which I observe in the unending variety of shapes, colors and textures found in the landscape. They are recreations of a specific moment in time in which light, atmosphere, earth and sky come together in celebration of the simple and profound beauty in nature. I want the viewer to literally feel the experience the bright dryness of a summer afternoon ... the private intimacy of driving alone on a rain-slicked road or of standing in the hills above a valley vista on a foggy winter morning. His visions of California never fail to do just that they totally engage the viewer.

Steven Gordons works have been shown in galleries from the Napa Valley and San Francisco to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The artists work has also been shown at the Members Galleries of the Philadelphia and Delaware Art Museums, and of the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, New York and is represented in numerous collections worldwide.


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Artist Exhibitions



SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Empress Theater, Vallejo, California
2000-13 The Gordon Gallery, Napa Valley, California
1999 The Gallery, Burlingame, California
1996 Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1994 Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
1994 Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa Valley, California
1993 Codorniu Napa Winery, Napa Valley, California
1993 I. Wolk Gallery, Napa Valley, California
1990-91 Convergence Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
20182022 Nimbash Benefit Show, St. Helena, California
2012-2014 Nimbash Benefit Show, St. Helena, California
2010 Connelly Ranch Benefit Show, Yountville, California
2010 G Studios, Group Show, Napa, California
2008-12 I Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, California
2004-08 Napa Valley Museum, Take a Chance on Art
2003 Boston Art Gallery, Group Show, Boston
2003 Harvard Club Gallery, In Good Company, Boston
2000-03 William Zimmer Gallery, Gallery Group Show, Mendocino, California
2000-03 the Gallery, Gallery Artists Group Show, Burlingame, California
1998 Napa Valley Museum, Inaugural Show, Yountville, California
1997 Munson Gallery, Gallery Artists Group Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1997 Gallery 30, Gallery Artists Group Show, Burlingame, California
1996 Joanne Chappell Gallery, Land Sea - Skyline, San Francisco
1996 Gallery 30, Interpreting Nature, Burlingame, California
1995 Koplin Gallery, Only in America, Los Angeles
1995 Horwitch Newman Gallery, Points of View, Scottsdale, Arizona
1994 Schramsberg Vineyards - I. Wolk Gallery, Napa Valley, California
1994 Mumm Cuvee Napa, Spring Palettes, Napa Valley, California
1993 I. Wolk Gallery, Small Wonders, Napa Valley, California
1993 Columbia Club Foundation, California Landscapes, Indianapolis
1993 Ellen Easton Gallery, Paintings in Pastel, Santa Barbara, California
1993 Gumps Gallery, Works on Paper, San Francisco
1993 Bedford Gallery, Vanishing Point, Walnut Creek, California
1993 Northern Seattle Community College, Ashes to Dust, Seattle
1992 Philadelphia Art Museum, Members Gallery, Philadelphia
1992 Delaware Art Museum, Members Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware
1992 Susan Cummins Gallery, On a Small Scale, Mill Valley, California
1992 HorvathBass Gallery, Sacramento, California
1992 I. Wolk Gallery, A Day in the Country, Napa Valley, California
1991-93 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, Summer Exhibition, New York
1991-92 Fleck-Ellman Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1989-92 Convergence Gallery, San Francisco
1991 Albright-Knox Museum, Members Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1990 Neville-Sargent Gallery, Landscapes - Rural and Urban, Chicago
1990 Simon James Gallery, Berkeley, California
1990 San Bernadino Museum 24th Annual Exhibition, Redlands, California
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