Nanaimo Art Gallery presents Show Me Everything

The Nanaimo Art Gallery is proud to present the work of Vancouver –based artist Randall Steeves.

The exhibition Show Me Everything features encaustic paintings by this talented Canadian artist. Steeves was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. He received an MFA from the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. He has lectured and led workshops at art galleries, colleges and universities across western Canada. He has also exhibited his work internationally. He is represented by the Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver.

When asked about his art, Steeves states that his work: “has to do with the systematic classification and categorization of information and identity. More importantly, in relation to painting, it’s about scrutinizing the actual physical residue that’s left behind when a person has been somewhere and done something. Painting can be thought of in similar terms; as the residue or marks left behind. I work with encaustic. The paint consists of beeswax that is heated in a pot, mixed with pigments and brushed onto canvas where it hardens immediately. The process, which involves the methodical application of layer over layer of translucent wax, results in a complex surface that can be read as a chronology of the painting’s construction and as a record of the painter’s physical presence and actions. The surface of an encaustic painting can suggest both the passage of time and a virtual, compressed spatiality that is nearly impossible to achieve with other painting mediums.”

Show Me Everything will be on display at the gallery from May 9th to June 14 th, 2008. The opening reception commences on Friday, May 9 th from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

Please phone, 740-6350 for more information, email info@nanaimogallery.ca or check out the website at www.nanaimogallery.ca