"The Last Ride" looked pretty incredible at the LA's landmark Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

photography by Scott Stulberg

Receiving an Award from Fine Arts Connoisseur Magazine and more news

It sure is a pretty hot summer here:

• Award at the CAC Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
• New works at the show in American Legacy Fine Arts Gallery
  
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  Alexey Steele receives an Award from prestigious
  Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
  at California Art Club
  99th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
  now on view at Pasadena Museum of California Art
  
  " for outstanding painting Shoeshiner. Jay of San Miguel "
  
  
  

surprise!


Kathleen Lawrence-Davis announced the award


this year winners
Sergio Sanchez, John Asaro, David Gallup, Charles Muench, Ramon Velazco, Julio Reyes, Taylor Montague


Kathleen Lawrence-Davis, Olga Vlasova, Michael Zakian, Tony Pro


more great artists:
Joseph Todorovich, David Kassan, Tony Pro


Peter Adams, David Gallup


making Jay proud

Thursday, July 1

6 - 8 p.m.

Membership Open House and Closing Tour

of the 99th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition

Pasadena Museum of California Art

490 E. Union St.

Pasadena, CA 91101

Free for CAC or PMCA members and up to two friends,

or with Museum admission

General Museum Admission: $7

Students and Seniors: $5

A wonderful opportunity to view the spectacular 99th Annual Gold Medal Juried

Exhibition before it closes on July 3, and to learn more about the California Art

Club. Gold Medal artists will be on hand to share personal insights about their

work, and refreshments will be served.

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six new paintings by Alexey Steele are currently available at
American Legacy Fine Arts

"Preserving Southern California's Coastline"
the exhibition continues through
July 24, 2010


artists and friends of ALFA after opening

Elaine Adams of ALFA with "Wind & Sand" by Alexey Steele

Gallery Hours:

Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday by appointment by calling 626.577.7733

My workshop is featured in-depth in American Artist Workshop Magazine Summer 2010

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My painting and teaching methods
as well as views on what it takes to create strong Art
are featured in-depth in the 14-page article of
American Artist Workshop Magazine, Summer 2010


"Alexey Steele: Pursuing Passion and Personal Vision"
by Michael Zakian
director of Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
Pepperdine University

Quotes from the article:

"A hallmark of Steele's life and art is passion - a passion for painting and for promoting the highest ideals of great culture and fine art."

"For Steele, painting is a deeply humanistic endeavor and is essential to maintaining the vitality and health of our culture."

"Steele painted in an assertive, determined stance, projecting his body's physical energy into his canvas. He believes that artists must instill this vitality into their image if they want their paintings to be alive."

"As an instructor, Steele has a remarkable and rare capacity to focus on improving each student's own vision and style, rather than imposing his own method."

"Steele represents a continuation and a revival of the European academic tradition."

"Steele is able to maintain pictorial freshness by always keeping his vision and image

full of life."

"For Steele, art is a passionate battle."

"The artist is in a position of ultimate power. Soldiers use lethal force to kill. Painters use vital force to recreate life itself, and that is art. Focus on the positive qualities of life and you will grow as an artist." Alexey Steele







for the full article, please click here

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