Stephen Von Mason
Stephen Von Mason è un artista Americano le cui opere sono state diffusamente esposte durante gli ultimi trent’anni, sia negli Stati Uniti che in Europa. La sua sorprendente visione artistica mostra un gusto spettacolare per quelle armonie cromatiche tese e definite che caratterizzano il suo stile, dando ai piani un ritmo perpetuato dalla scansione tra figure e sfondi, stabilendo l’equilibrio tra l’aspetto narrativo e il figurativo. Coerente e fortemente caratterizzata, ogni opera emerge nettamente dal crogiuolo creativo, viva e definita. Nel 2012 l’artista è stato invitato dal Presidente Barack Obama a presentare il suo Art Program con la Making Waves Academy al President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Opere di Stephen Von Mason sono state selezionate per le seguenti collezioni pubbliche: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Auchenbach Collection, San Francisco, CA; Rotterdam Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA; Goldman Sachs, New York, NY; Fairmont Hotels, New Orleans, LA and Dallas, TX; Health America, Nashville, TN.
Stephen Von Mason is an American painter. His artworks have been extensively exhibited in US and European art galleries during the past 33 years. His vision shows a spectacular taste for chromatic patterns that define his style in shaping the figures on the background, finding a balance between the narrative and the figurative aspect. Coherent and strongly characterized, every artwork emerges neat and definitive from the creative crucible, perfectly alive. In 2012 he received an invitation from President Barack Obama to present his Art Program’s success with Making Waves Academy to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Artworks by Stephen Von Mason had been selected for the following public collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Auchenbach Collection, San Francisco, CA; Rotterdam Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA; Goldman Sachs, New York, NY; Fairmont Hotels, New Orleans, LA and Dallas, TX; Health America, Nashville, TN.
EXHIBITIONS 1990-2014
2014 Agora Gallery, Chelsea New York, NY
Stephen Von Mason, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue
Mountain Lake, New York - (solo)
2013 Saatchi Gallery. London, England
Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
See//Exhibition Space, LIC, Queens, New York
San Francisco 49ers Vernon Davis Gallery 85, San Jose, CA
2011 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1997 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1995 Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Rotterdam Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1992 Stedelijk Museum of Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1993 Bomani Galllery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
De Krackeling Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1991 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1990 Christies Auction House, New York, NY
Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
LITERATURE
1997 Hillhouse, Susan, “African American Painters’, Triton Museum of
Art, Santa Clara, CA (catalogue)
1990 Castellon, Rolondo, “Patterns and Patents”, Porter Sesnon Gallery.
UC Santa Cruz (catalogue)
1986 Gordon, Allen, Works on Paper at the Crocker”, Crocker Museum of
Art, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)
1984 Hopper, Robert, “Eighth British International Print Biennale”,
Cartwright Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (catalogue)
1983 Haldoupis, John, “The American Annual Works on Paper Exhibition
83”, Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY (catalogue)
Harrington, Bev, “Contemporary Images Watercolor: 1983”, Allen
Priebe Gallery, Oshkosh, WI (catalogue)
SELECTED ARTICLES
- Ingrid Reeves, “Art by Stephen Von Mason from San Francisco”, three color reproductions, Artist Portfolio Magazine – July, 2013 p. 1;
- Osmond, Susan Fegley, “Feral Fusion”, Ten full page color reproductions, The Washington Post Magazine-The World & I - February, 1993, p. 208-217;
- Fredriks, Ineke, “BoekieBoekie Kunst te leen”, reproductions and converted version of my book “Brother Anansi and the Cattle Ranch into: Tales from Afrika-TV, a children TV show called “Anansi Comes to the Netherlands”, September and October – 1992, Rotterdam Art Center Newsletter;
- Murphy, Anthony, “A Portfolio of Promising Futures”, color reproductions, American Visions Magazine, fall issue – 1992, p. 18 and cover;
- Rooks, Belvie, “Bomani Gallery on the Contemporary Scene”, San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 1992 p. 6;
- Baker, Elizabeth, “The Figure Identified”, Art in America, Annual Issue, 1992, p. 57,
- Brzezinski, Jamey, “Reassurance, The Figure Identified”, Art Week, October 17, 1991, p. cover;
- Kirby, John, “Gallery News”, Antiques and Fine Art, spring issue, 1991, p. 93
- Dalkey, Victoria, “The New Black Art”, The Sacramento Bee – Encore Section, January 12, 1986, p. 16;
- Liss, Andrea, “Introductions 85”, Art News Magazine, October, 1985, p. 115;
- Burkhart, Dorothy, “Disquieting Presences, Knockout Paintings in San Francisco”, San Jose Mercury News, July 26, 1985, p. 19E