My new paintings "Forty Day Beard" & "Melting Away" at CAC Anual Gold Medal Show

My new paintings 

at 

California Art Club 

104th Annual 

Gold Medal Juried Exhibition

"Forty Day Beard"  detail 

I haven't done a self-portrait for 30 years. All last years my Dad was asking me to make one. So after 40 days of Russian mourning period I painted this one.
It's called "Forty Day Beard."

It is now exhibited in the California Art Club show along with my new painting "Melting Away" from one of my favorite and tranquil Malibu spots.

March 29-April 19, 2015

USC Fisher Museum of Art
823 West Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles 90089

"Forty Day Beard" oil on linen 24' x 18"

It was pretty hard, meaningful and in this way beautiful couple of months.
Made me feel everything ART is made of and for.  

ART transcends all human experiences.  

ART heals.

in ART we trust.

Alexey

 

"Melting Away" oil on linen 9" x 12"  

  For more information go to  
 CAC website   

Alexey's painting at Carnegie Art Museum

A l e x e y     S t e e l e ' s

painting

"MALIBU SEAGULL"

    

 is on view

at the CAC Signature Artist Show

EMPATHY FOR BEAUTY   

IN THE 21ST CENTURY  

June 7 - August 17

You are cordially invited

to the Opening Reception

with the Artists 

     

Saturday, June 7 

 

4 - 6 p.m.  

 

AT THE CARNEGIE ART MUSEUM

424 SOUTH C STREET

OXNARD, CA 93030  

www.carnegieam.org

 

Alexey Steele  "Malibu Seagull"

Oil on linen 26" x 65"

$5 donation / museum members and CAC members free.

424 South C Street

Oxnard, CA 93030

Map 

                    

Featuring paintings by California Art Club Signature Artists:

Peter Adams, John Asaro, Clyde Aspevig, Bela Bacsi, Brian Blood, Cathey Cadieux, Karl Dempwolf, Dennis Doheny, David C. Gallup, Lynn Gertenbach, Jeremy Lipking, Carolyn Lord, Eric Merrell, Stelphen Mirich, Jennifer Moses, Charles Muench, Michael Obermeyer, Daniel W. Pinkham, Tony Pro, Gerald D. Rahm, Junn Roca, Gayle Garner Roski, Mian Situ, Michael Situ, Christopher Slatoff, Tim Solliday, William Stout, Alexey Steele, Joseph Todorovitch, and William Wray 

My new drawings in "Curiosity" show with great sculptor Bela Bacsi atAmerican Legacy Fine Arts

Thanks everyone, all my brothers-in-ART in particular, for joining us at our show opening yesterday and making it such a great night! 

What made this show so special to me though and all that work worth every bit, was that moment of seeing my finished drawings in their full assembly next to refined and striking forms of Bela's spectacular marbles. 

When I took this shot last night after we all had to leave finally i had a thought: "Contemporary" is not a style, "Contemporary"is a sensibility...

Dec. 7th - opening of "Curiosity" exhibit with Alexey Steele and Bela Bacsi

Please join us this Saturday, Dec. 7th @ 4 - 6 p.m.

A l e x e y     S T E E L E   /  B E L A    B A C S I:  

"CURIOSITY - THE INNER SELF" 

  A duo-exhibition featuring charcoal and sepia drawings by Alexey Steele

 and hand-carved marble sculptures by Béla Bácsi.  

Together, these classically-trained artists explore 
the innate desireto seek out the unknown to unlock nature's mysteries.

 

Artists' Reception:   

Saturday, December 7th @ 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.   

American Legacy Fine Arts, 949 Linda Vista Ave, Pasadena, California 91103

          

All works are available for sale.  Exhibit is open through Jan 11. 

To preview exhibition or to RSVP please click here.    

 

   

Steele: "Warrior", Sepia on archival paper mounted on oil on panel  15" x 19" 

Bela Bacsi and Alexey Steele Featured in Southwest Art Magazine October 2013 Issue 

 

"...The show features about 20 of his newest drawings on hand-made De Ponte paper and heavy-weigh Italian Fabriano paper, which appears to float in front of its frame. Designed by the artist, the mounting system complements a recurring theme in Steele's imagery these days: a dreamlike sense of floating, which he sees as a metaphor for the human spirit transcending the limitations of gravity, and thus, of mortality..."

   More works by Alexey Steele 

 

Steele: "Will for Wings", Sepia on archival paper mounted on oil on panel  19" x 15"

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We look forward seeing you all  

IN ART WE TRUST!      

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Fall Workshops: Academic Approach to Head and Figure Painting

NOVOREALISM ART ACADEMY

Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA

announces a figurative workshop series this Fall:

"ACADEMIC APPROACH TO HEAD AND FIGURE PAINTING"

Course Meets 7 Saturdays: September 22, 29; October 13, 20, 27; November 10, 17

class time 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost of the course: $350 (model fee is included)

Artists and Art students are invited.

Please register early to reserve your spot. Space is limited. 

Overview: The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working with live model as well as describe a vital integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in depth after participation in the workshop.

There are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside "techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating" principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme of the workshop. The central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form to Color. 
 

Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique.

In addition to the main objective, at this workshop students will have an opportunity to practice the development of their key decisions on a longer studies as we will book the same models for 2-3 consecutive sessions.  

List of the supplies will be send upon registration.

Please email Olga at classicalunderground@yahoo.com to sign up

 

Read an in-depth review of Alexey Steele workshop in

American Artist Workshop Magazine:

www.alexeysteele.com/Articles/AmericanArtist2010.pdf  

"Everyone knows what a powerful artistic force Alexey already is, but few, until this time, could have realized what a sensational and dynamic art instructor he makes as well." 

- George Malone, workshop participant  

 

Spring Workshops: Academic Approach to Head and Figure Painting

NOVOREALISM ART ACADEMY

Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA

announces a figurative workshop series this Spring:

"ACADEMIC APPROACH TO HEAD AND FIGURE PAINTING"

Course Meets 8 Saturdays: March 17, 24, 31; April 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19 

class time 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost of the course: $400 (model fee is included)

Artists and Art students are invited.

Please register early to reserve your spot. Space is limited.

workshop in process

Overview: The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working with live model as well as describe a vital integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in depth after participation in the workshop.

There are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside "techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating" principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme of the workshop. The central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form to Color. 
 

Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique.

In addition to the main objective, at this workshop students will have an opportunity to practice the development of their key decisions on a longer studies as we will book the same models for 2-3 consecutive sessions.  

List of the supplies will be send upon registration.

Please email Olga at classicalunderground@yahoo.com to sign up.  

    

       

   

Read an in-depth review of Alexey Steele workshop in

American Artist Workshop Magazine:

www.alexeysteele.com/Articles/AmericanArtist2010.pdf  

"Everyone knows what a powerful artistic force Alexey already is, but few, until this time, could have realized what a sensational and dynamic art instructor he makes as well." 

- George Malone, workshop participant    

Alexey Steele at the 1st Plein Air Convention & Expo

 Alexey is excited to see everyone at

1st Plein Air Convention & Expo

April 12-15, 2012

Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas

Saturday, April 14

11am - 6pm

Alexey will be a Featured Instructor at Zone 8

of the all day of painting on location
at Red Rock National Conservation Area

Sunday, April 15

is an official "Russian Day" at the convention
8am - 10am

Alexey will be part of a Special Double Demo

with a wonderful Russian Master and a current professor
at the Alexey's Alma Mater -
venerated Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov
of The Russian Academy of Arts  -

Nikolai Dubovik

Join Alexey at the Convention  

and  

save $100 on registration  

through the special link below:  

http://pleinairconventionexpo.eventbee.com/discount?code=PACAS   

 

"Just can't wait for the Plain Air Convention! What an incredible group of some of the most spectacular masters in this crucially important for our realist movement field!

Plain Air experience is uniquely important for a development of Realist Art and to my personal overall artistic process, particularly to my studio figurative work. I consider experienced gained through continuous plain air painting being the backbone of my understanding of nature and the foundation of my artistic training. This is how my father, a Great Russian artist of Soviet Era Leonid Steele, began my formal lessons at age six. I always look at the great outdoors as my constant laboratory to study basic principles of our art form - compositional harmony of forms and shapes, the relation of values and colors in all their infinite variations as they defined by real-life light and space. Plain Air is always a great testing ground for my various visual and technical ideas. "

Alexey Steele   

For more information on the conference go to: http://www.pleinairconvention.com/index.php  

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 visit Alexey Steele website 

and gallery at  http://americanlegacyfinearts.com/