The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (TIMA) opened its third exhibition of the season featuring a one-person show of work by one of eastern Canada’s foremost printmakers, Dan Steeves ('81). The exhibition will be on view through September 21, 2008. A letter in support of the exhibition by New Brunswick’s Premier Shawn Graham was read at the opening.
Dan Steeves was born in 1959 in Moncton, New Brunswick. He received his B.F.A. from Mount Allison University in 1981. He currently lives in Sackville where he is Printmaking Instructor and Lecturer in the Fine Arts Department. In 2007, Dan won the prestigious Sheila Hugh McKay Foundation's Strathbutler Award, which honors exceptional artistry in the province.
His work has been exhibited in galleries in Canada, the United States, Holland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Taiwan and the Ukraine. His prints are represented internationally in both public and private collections including Canadian House, (Nagoya, Japan), Royal Bank, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Regent College, Istituto Per La Cultura E L'Arte, (Catania, Italy), Chernobyl Disaster Museum, (Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR), Canada Council Art Bank, Permanent Collection, University of New Brunswick Art Centre and New Brunswick Art Bank, among others. He is represented by the Abbozzo Gallery of Oakville, Ontario, and the Peter Buckland Gallery of Saint John, New Brunswick. The prints included in this exhibition are on loan from the Peter Buckland Gallery.
The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (TIMA) is located in Eastport, Maine.
Read more: Work by New Brunswick Printmaker Dan Steeves on Exhibit at Tides Institute (artdaily.org)
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