Steve Banks

Relative Location (Redux), Large Scale, Brightly Colored Pop Art, Mixed Media

2021

Using bold imagery and a bright color palette, Steve Banks takes pieces of popular culture to create this work entitled "Promised Land (of Sky Blue Waters)". He creates a scene with animated comic book characters and imaginative uses of commercial products, in this case by using the Hamm's Logo as the center piece. The three-dimensional quality of the piece adds to the overall aesthetic. Please contact the gallery for framing options. Steve Banks Promised Land (of Sky Blue Waters) mixed media 40h x 30w in 101.60h x 76.20w cm STB014 STEVE BANKS b. Cedar Rapids, IA, 1972 EDUCATION 1997 MFA – Florida State University 1995 BFA – Northwest Missouri State University SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Pop Culture Palimpsest. Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA 2014 A More Refined Mayhem. Cortona Gallery, Ashford University, Clinton, IA Ill-Suited For The Pleasantries. Black Hawk College Artspace, Moline, IL 2013 Dutiful Citizen. Maquoketa Art Experience, Maquoketa, IA 2009 Carry-on Baggage. University of Western Illinois, Macomb, IL 2008 Funky Aftertaste. Moressey Gallery. St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA 2005 Surfacing. Next II Gallery, New Orleans, LA Process, Perception and Clandestine Skivvies. Bucktown Ctr for the Arts, Davenport, IA 2004 Last Gasp. Midcoast Art Under Glass at The Parker Building, Davenport, IA 2003 B.M.O.C. and Nitzles. Peanut Gallery, Rock Island, IL 2002 Walls and the Mask. Peanut Gallery, Rock Island, IL 1997 The Faces of Masks: Color Photographic Studies. Tallahassee Airport Gallery, Tallahassee, FL 1996 Masks. Oglesby Gallery, Tallahassee, FL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Dr. Portmanteau's Galorium Emporium. Black Hawk College ArtSpace Gallery, Moline, IL Faculty Art Show. Catich Gallery, Saint Ambrose...

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Alea Pinar Du Pre's original mixed media artworks portray human figures in a graphic pop-realist style. An enterprising autodidact merging technology and fine art, her vibrant contemporary pop-figurative artworks colorfully explore the territory between human reality and artificial reality. Her paintings portray the fact that our perceptions of solid reality are deceptively virtual. This unique collage is a part of her "Snapshot" series, as she explains: "We consist of the same atoms, created billions of years ago in a supernova. And here we are living and breathing and experiencing life, and we think we are all so different. I think we are all the same, it’s just that are masks and poses are different. I love humanity and this game we are playing. With snapshot, I am trying to capture the unawareness of the fact that we are the greatest wonder of the universe". This one-of-a-kind 47 inch high by 62 inch wide artwork depicts the portrait of a female figure. Pinar Du Pre's fusion of materials - acrylics, printed elements, and layers of gilt captured under an epoxy lens - represents the layered reality she aims to depict. The sides of this canvas are painted as a continuation of the front and it does not require framing. Pinar Du Pre has signed, titled, and dated this original artwork on the back of the canvas. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Building on the synthetic intensity of digital art, her figurative style depicts a familiar but warped daily life. Alea Pinar Du Pre has been influenced deeply by the traditional fine art and design practices of Kunstlerhaus and Wiener Werkstaette, two artist societies with roots in Vienna, Austria. Paying tribute to her main influences, Alea describes her style as "Jugendstil Pop-Art". But where Pop art was stimulated by the iconography of materialism and the mass culture of its time, her vision is more intimate in its subversive intent. Alea Pinar Du Pre lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Her artworks are exhibited and collected in international hot spots across Europe, Asia, and North America. REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA EXHIBITIONS 2021-23 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019 “Voltage,” Artplex Gallery Los Angeles, California Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Artplex Gallery 2018 Singapore Artstage, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery “Layered Boldness,” Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Palm Beach Art Fair, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery “Frequencies,” Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Vue Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery Group Show, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery Solo Show, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery Group Show, Ransom Gallery Artstage Singapore, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Singapore Wynwood Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Miami, FL AFF Battersea, Cube Gallery AFF Antwerp, Cube Gallery 2017 Scope Miami, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Miami, Florida Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Redart Gallery, Istanbul “FaceTime,” Solo Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland AFF New York, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York AFF Hong Kong, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Hong Kong Artsource Ireland, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Art Hamptons, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Southampton Cube Art...