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Featured in the International Contemporary Masters V Art Book and Exhibition at SNMFA

February 21st, 2012

Featured in the International Contemporary Masters V Art Book and Exhibition at SNMFA

Five original oil paintings by Stephen Degan are featured in Volume V of the International Contemporary Masters Art Book which was released in January 2012.

Stephen will also be represented with three of his works featured in this book in the ICM V Art Exhibition at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art in Las Vegas that will run from March 10 through June 2, 2012. For detailed information visit: www.deganArt.com/art shows.htm

Featured in Canned Oxygen Exhibition at the Icosahedron Gallery in Chelsea, New York

March 20th, 2011

Featured in Canned Oxygen Exhibition at the Icosahedron Gallery in Chelsea, New York

Stephen Degan is among the artists currently showing their work in the group "Canned Oxygen" Exhibition at the Icosahedron Gallery in Chelsea, New York which will run through March 26th 2011.
Stephen is showing five of his oil land-/ & seascape paintings in the exhibit: “Vienna Rooftops”, “View of the Seine from Les Andyles”, “Laura’s Sunset”, “Essex Junction, Vermont” and “Lipstick Sunset”.
Please go to: 'www.deganArt.com/Canned Oxygen 3.11.htm' for Photos of the March 11th Opening Reception.

The Exhibition will run through March 26th 2011 at Icosahedron Gallery, 606 West 26th Street, New York, NY, www.icosahedrongallery.org.

Below is a copy of the Press Release:

ICOSAHEDRON GALLERY Art Exhibit Canned Oxygen
Reception: Friday, March 11th @ 7pm

Icosahedron Gallery is pleased to present "Canned Oxygen," a group show focused ondiverse approaches to contemporary landscape. "Canned Oxygen's" works range from traditional landscape to urban dystopia, from Abstract Expressionist inspired paintings to visual metaphysical studies. Theinternational roster of featured artists includes Shin-Hye Park, Monika Degan, Stephan Degan, Flavio Carvalho, Barbara Burger, David Abse, Jean Claude Boutrouille, Susan Lüth Hedegaard, Fabio Adani, Giovanni Greppi, Michinori Maru, Mélanie Lefebvre, and Vlado Tudja.

Shin-Hye Park, Monika Degan, and Stephan Degan employ traditional techniques in their landscape paintings. Shin-Hye Park of Korea considers her minimal, tranquil seascapes more spiritual than photorealist. Park's carefully-cropped compositions communicate notions of inner peace, balance, and Zen through the fluidity of waves. Married couple Monika and Stephan Degan live and work in Houston, Texas. Before moving to Houston in 1984, Monika was raised in Switzerland. She paints detailed landscapes and seascapes in skilled watercolors. Stephan Degan studied oil painting at The Gary Hernandez School of Fine Art in Houston. Stephan's work celebrates the beauty of nature in his representational landscapes.

Artists Flavio Carvalho and Barbara Burger's subjects are the city in their modern concrete landscapes. Award-winning Brazilian designer Flavio Carvalho's digital C-prints of New York's rooftop water towers portray the signature melancholy of the city. Shot while on a visit to New York, Carvalho captures the poetry of the empty expanse of sky above the buzzing city. American Barbara Burger illuminates the magic of New York in her paintings. Burger renders familiar places such as the Brooklyn Bridge with heartfelt emotion.
David Abse, Jean Claude Boutrouille and Susan Lüth Hedegaard's works reinterpret the physical world in colorful abstract landscapes. United Kingdom's David Abse has exhibited in the UK and internationally since studying art and design at The University of Wolverhampton in the 1980's. Now living in the south of France, Absecites a combination of his external and internal environments asinspiration for his raw, gestural paintings. Jean Claude Boutrouille isan intellectual and lover of literature, art, music, cooking andculture. A self-taught painter from France, Boutrouille works in the modernist traditions of Abstract Expressionism, adding a touch of his beloved classics with intentionally cracked and aged surfaces. Susan Lüth Hedegaard of Denmark embraces chaos and chance in her abstract, mixed media pieces. Working on elongated plexiglass panels, Hedegaard's work is lively and filled with drama.

Exploring landscape from a metaphysical perspective is Fabio Adani, Giovanni Greppi, Michinor iMaru, and Mélanie Lefebvre. Italian Fabio Adani's cold, minimal, predominately blue landscapes redefine the boundaries of thought and reality. Adani's sparse spaces highlight the possibility that idea is reality itself. Italian-born Giovanni Greppi's breadth of international experiences, including the destruction a body of his work by guerrilla fighters in Colombia, have informed his sensitive abstract paintings. Now working in Tuscany, Greppi continually produces abstract artwork rooted in themes of idealism and compassion. Michinori Maru of Japan, breaks down physical spaces in his cubist-influenced work using his self-coined term, "The Zune," referring to the gap between the actuality and the memory of experience. Mélanie Lefebvre, of Canada, explores a range of emotions through focus and manipulation of the horizon line. She states, "a line creates space but also divides in into two symbiotic parts". Showing formal influence of Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko, Lefebvre seeks to create a "sensitive rather than descriptive" space.
For more information or to schedule a private viewing contact:

Robert Berry

Curator
(212)966-3897

rberry(at)icosahedrongallery.org

Featured in the International Contemporary Masters Volume IV Art Book and Exhibition

February 16th, 2011

Featured in the International Contemporary Masters Volume IV Art Book and Exhibition

Nine original oil paintings by Stephen Degan are featured in Volume IV of the International Contemporary Masters Art Book which was released in February 2011.

Stephen will also be represented with three of his works featured in this book in the ICM Art Exhibition at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art in Las Vegas that will run from April 16 through June 4, 2011. For detailed information visit: www.deganArt.com/art shows.htm

Featured in the International Contemporary Masters Volume III Art Book

March 21st, 2010

Featured in the International Contemporary Masters Volume III Art Book

Five original oil paintings by Stephen Degan are featured in Volume III of the International Contemporary Masters Art Book which was released in February 2010.

Stephen will also be represented with three of his works featured in this book in the ICM Art Exhibition at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art in Las Vegas that will run from April 17 through June 5, 2010. For detailed information visit: www.deganArt.com/art shows.htm