Andrew Stevovich : Solitary Demons
October 24 - December 2, 2007
Book Signing Andrew Stevovich: Essential Elements Sunday, October 28, 2007, 3 p.m.
Gallery Talk Wednesday, October 31, 2007, noon
Reception Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6 - 8 p.m.
Exhibition Press
“Uncomfortably numb” By Chris Bergeron, The MetroWest Daily News, October 25, 2007
As if glimpsed through gasoline vapors, a crowd of blank-faced people shuffle into a neon bright subway station gazing listlessly toward nothing in particular. Trapped amid the crowd, only one woman sneaks a look toward us with darting, anxious eyes. That just might be painter Andrew Stevovich sharing unsettling reveries through his haunting canvases. A representative spectrum of Stevovich's distinctive paintings opened yesterday at the Danforth Museum of Art. ... [Read more of the article]
Review of recent Andrew Stevovich gallery exhibition
“The Dispassionate Perfectionist” By James Gardner, The New York Sun, October 18, 2007
The art of Andrew Stevovich is charming, though the means by which he achieves that charm are hard to fathom. Mr. Stevovich is an extremely precise delineator of reality, yet he is not a realist. Though there is an almost cartoonish abstractness to the features of the figures he portrays, they have a resonance and a seriousness that rise above that genre. And though both of these preoccupations — his enameled precision and his cartoonish abstraction — are usually antagonistic to the ambitions of pure, painterly form, Mr. Stevovich's works are filled with all kinds of visual felicity that we traditionally associate with abstract painters or artists practicing a more fastidious brand of realism. ... [Read more of the article]
Woman with Two Devils, 1995
oil on linen, 6 x 7 ¾ inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Adelson Galleries, NY, NY
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