Steve Burtch: White Nights
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Steve Burtch is from a generation of artists that is looking at the optical effects that the SOCAL group deployed in the 60s and is conjuring these optical effects through a deeper exploration of the possibilities that the technological advancement of materials has released. The essence is still simplicity, allowing the intrinsic properties of the materials to do the heavy lifting; much the way a great chef allows their ingredients to caress the palette.
Transcript of Steve Burtch: White Nights
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Even the subtlest addition of pigment
to pure color can radically change
its intensity, but rarely does it
increase the intensity. Add light to
the palette of pigments and color
theory becomes anachronistic. I won’t
hold a color theorist’s hand to the
candle; after all, they lacked the
insight that the Los Angeles artists,
known as the “Light and Space” group,
developed with the use of plastics
and aerospace materials and their
associated translucent properties.
The limitations of luminescence are
detonated and the “painting” now has
the power to burn our retina.
Steve Burtch is from a generation of
artists that is looking at the optical
effects that the SOCAL group deployed
in the 60s and is conjuring these
optical effects through a deeper
exploration of the possibilities that
the technological advancement of
materials has released. The essence
is still simplicity, allowing the
intrinsic properties of the materials
to do the heavy lifting; much the way
a great chef allows their ingredients
to caress the palette.
These minimal white works are
composed of bands of acrylic white
paint articulated through three
layers of translucent acrylic sheets
backed by a layer of mirrored
acrylic. As the viewer “reads,” or
in a sense “listens” to the rhythm
of the painting, notes are muted or
emphasized by the paints proximity to
the surface. As light travels through
the layers and reflects back through
the acrylic, the result is an optical
reverb, Burtch the maestro.
a concerto of white
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January 17 — March 2, 2013 • Nyehaus • White Nights • New York, NY
December 4 — 8, 2012 • Nyehaus & Nye + Brown • Rebels in Paradise • Bungalow 5 • Delano • Miami Beach, FL
October 24 — November 24, 2012 • Peter Blake Gallery • Transcending Abstraction III • Laguna Beach, CA
September 27 — 30, 2012 • Art Platform • via Pe-ter Blake Gallery • Santa Monica, CA
July 10 — August 18, 2012 • Nye + Brown • Summer 2012 • Los Angeles, CA
June 23 — July 21, 2012 • Peter Blake Gallery • Transcending Abstraction II • Laguna Beach, CA
May 17 — 20, 2012 • artMRKT San Francisco • via Peter Blake Gallery • San Francisco, CA
April 28 — June 3, 2012 • Peter Blake Gallery • Steve Burtch • New Works • Laguna Beach, CA
March 11 — April 30, 2012 • Peter Blake Gallery • Transcending Abstraction• Laguna Beach, CA
February 17 — 19, 2012 • Palm Springs Fine Art
Fair: Post War and Contemporary • via Peter Blake Gallery • Palm Springs, CA
January 18 — 22, 2012 • 17th Annual LA Art Show: Modern and Contemporary • via Peter Blake Gallery • Los Angeles, CA
October 29 — November 20, 2011 • Peter Blake Gallery, James Hayward/Group Show • Back Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
August 21 — September 30, 2011 • Peter Blake Gal-lery, Fall Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA
May 31 — June 18, 2011 • Peter Blake Gallery, Summer Group Show, Laguna Beach, CA
May 5 — June 18, 2011 • Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Deep, Juried Exhibition by Grace Kook-Anderson, Curator,Laguna Art Museum, Santa Ana, CA
March 12 — April 16, 2011 • Peter Blake Gal-lery, Selected Works from Gallery Artists, Laguna Beach, CA
January 15 — February 26, 2011 • Peter Blake Gal-lery, Winter Group Show, Laguna Beach, CA
December 3, 2010 • Art 1307, one night, one din-
ner, one day show: Todd Williamson • Steve Burtch • Joe Davidson • Villa di Donato — Piazza S. Eframo Vecchio, Naples, Italy
November 26 — 28, 2010 • Art 1307, Step09: Milan Art Fair, Milan, Italy
October 9 — November 6, 2010 • Peter Blake Gal-lery, Introductions, Laguna Beach, CA
September 16 — October 1, 2010 • Peter Blake Gal-lery, Fall Selections: Recent Works from Gallery Artists, Laguna Beach, CA
August 7 — September 1, 2010 • Peter Blake Gal-lery, Summer Group Show, Laguna Beach, CA
May 6 — 29, 2010 • Peter Blake Gallery, Group Show, Back Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
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Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund — Educational Grant, United Kingdom — Dallas Museum of Art • Awarded grant to travel to the UK and study the works of Ben Nicholson & Barbara Hepworth.
University of Houston, Houston, Texas — Master of Fine Arts candidate; Bachelor of Fine Arts • Studio Painting and Art History.
Peter Blake • Laguna Beach, CASusan Boland • New York, NYGerald Buck/Buck Collection • Newport Beach, CALes Edelberg • Corona del Mar, CARichard Gaunt • Marina del Rey, CAJanet & Terry Hatchet • Newport Beach, CAJean-Marc Herrouin • Los Angeles, CARichard Holley • Houston, TXLinda & Mitch Katz • Newport Beach, CAMichael Lee • Malibu, CAErica & Benjy Levit • Houston, TXDianna Martin • Newport Beach, CAJoan McNamara • Los Angeles, CAAlice & Eric Moore • Dallas, TXTim Nye • New York, NYKimberly & Dennis Quaid • Pacific Palisades, CA
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