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Steven Charles, Ghosts, 2021

Steven Charles

Ghosts, 2021

acrylic and gold leaf on canvas

48h x 48w in

SCh125

Steven Charles, Secrets of the Beehive, 2021

Steven Charles

Secrets of the Beehive, 2021

acrylic and mixed media on canvas

70h x 70w in

SCh124

Steven Charles, Cosmopolis, 2021

Steven Charles

Cosmopolis, 2021

acrylic and mixed media on canvas

16h x 16w in

SCh117

Steven Charles, Films, 2021

Steven Charles

Films, 2021

acrylic on canvas

18h x 18w in

SCh122

Steven Charles, Metal, 2021

Steven Charles

Metal, 2021

acrylic on canvas

18h x 18w in

SCh123

Steven Charles, Underworld, 2020

Steven Charles

Underworld, 2020

acrylic on canvas

16h x 16w in

SCh118

Steven Charles, Walker, 2020

Steven Charles

Walker, 2020

acrylic on canvas

16h x 17w in

SCh104

Steven Charles, Door Licker, 2020

Steven Charles

Door Licker, 2020

acrylic on canvas

16h x 16w in

SCh102

Steven Charles, Small Structures, 2021

Steven Charles

Small Structures, 2021

acrylic and collage on canvas

14h x 11w in

SCh130

Steven Charles, Let's be wrong, 2021

Steven Charles

Let's be wrong, 2021

acrylic on paper

24h x 18w in

SCh134

Steven Charles, Temple of Trees, 2021

Steven Charles

Temple of Trees, 2021

acrylic on canvas

12h x 12w in

SCh129

Steven Charles, Brilliant Trees, 2021

Steven Charles

Brilliant Trees, 2021

acrylic, string, collage on canvas

48h x 48w in

SCh127

Press Release

Cris Worley Fine Arts is pleased to announce, Clearing in the Forest, a solo exhibition of new works by gallery artist Steven Charles. This is Charles’ third solo exhibition at the gallery.

After his previous studio-clearing exhibition, Steven Charles presents a new body of paintings, rendered in black and white. The artist challenged himself to paint without color and without the use of familiar tools, developing new ways of working that called into question his own preconceived artistic ideas.

Charles is restless in his approach to art-making. Following the Jasper Johns adage, “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it,” the artist returns to a single painting again and again, working across multiple paintings at a time. As a result, the paintings bleed into each other; a problem arising in one may serve as the solution in another, and vice versa.

Clearing in the Forest derives its name from a painting by Paul Klee, one of the artist’s many inspirations. But viewers are as likely to find connections to Klee as they are to comic books, punk rock, and contemporary literature. A self-described “satellite dish,” Charles is receptive and responsive to input. As a result his works are frenetic, but familiar; content to hover on the brink of total perception.

Steven Charles was born in Birkenhead, England and grew up in Bedford, Texas. He received an MFA from The Tyler School of Art (1996) and BFA from the University of North Texas (1994). Charles received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and an Artist’s Fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts. He has shown nationally and internationally. His work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Vice. 

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