Name: Artist Talk: Under Spacious Skies
Start: 2024-11-16T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-16T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Zenith Gallery

Saturday Artist talk of Bradley Steven's recent landscape oil paintings!
About this Event

Zenith Gallery Presents

Under Spacious Skies
The American Landscapes
Oil paintings by Bradley Stevens

Opening Receptions to meet the artist: Friday, October18 4-8PM & Saturday, October 19, 2-6PM

Exhibit Dates: October 18 - November 30, 2024

Artists Talks: Sat Nov 2nd at 2pm & Sat Nov 16th at 2pm

At 1429 Iris Street NW, Washington DC, 20012

As a landscape painter, I spend a lot of time looking up. I’m mesmerized by the sky: the dynamic, ever-changing, never-to-be-seen again light show that occurs right before our eyes. These paintings bear witness to fleeting sky moments I have experienced in my travels out West and closer to home, in the Virginia countryside. My challenge is to capture the magical interplay of sun and clouds as they dance across the landscape and to express the limitless expanse of the open sky.

-- Bradley Stevens

In his career of over 35 years, Stevens has forged a reputation as one of America’s leading realist painters. His style is contemporary realism––rooted in classical training, yet boldly depicting the modern world with his penetrating eye. Stevens is unique among his contemporaries for his exceptional achievements in three domains of representational art: portraiture, landscapes and figurative cityscapes. He skillfully combines these genres in his work, creating contemporary portraits of people and places. He frequently works on commission, and many of the commissioned paintings are on a large scale for public and private spaces.

Stevens’ landscapes and figurative cityscapes are found in the collections of America’s preeminent government, corporations, associations and professional firms, including The White House, National Portrait Gallery, US Capitol, Mt. Vernon, William and Mary Collage. AARP; Carr America; CSX; Cushman & Wakefield; FannieMae; Gannett; Holland & Knight; McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe LLP; Verizon; Wheat First Butcher & Singer; Williams & Connolly LLP; and Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP.The Peterson Companies and many more.