Featured Work
Exhibition
May 23, 2023 - June 21, 2023
Under the Influence | Contemporary Artists and the Masters Who Inspire Them
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Steven Nederveen’s artwork has long been grounded in his meditation practice and influenced by the calming effect of immersion in his favorite places. He creates compositions of oceanic coastlines, panoramic landscapes, and old growth forests using heightened colors and high-contrast golden light. Highlighting the grandeur of the natural world, Nederveen’s artwork is achieved through a process that combines photography, painting, printing, and erasure; the resulting pieces allow us to imagine a space between reality and dream.
Nederveen received a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, and studied at Medicine Hat College, Medicine Hat, AB. He has shown his work across North America, as well as at art fairs around Europe. His work is part of collections including Armani Canada, Richmond, BC; and the Al-Fayed Family Collection, London, UK.
My work depicts simplified, illuminated scenes of nature as a metaphor for our internal world in a state of transience or incompleteness.
As a waterman and the son of a sailor, I’ve spent a lot of time on the waters of the west coast. I know these waters, and yet I can never really know them. The ocean is an endless variety of movement, light and feeling. We can see ourselves in its vastness and depths, its calm and its torrents. Water reflects back to us our inner worlds and emotions.
Using a mixed media approach to image making, I combine acrylic paint and C-print photographs. By layering these elements I can etch down into the emulsion of the photograph to reveal golden hues and also build up the surface with impasto and washes of colour. The result is an image with photo sharp detail in focal areas and painterly brush marks that obscure and create space for the imagination.
I’m a Canadian artist with work featured internationally in galleries, art fairs, magazines, tv programs and many private collections. I am based in Toronto, Canada and work with a great team of galleries across Canada and US that exhibit and sell my work to clients around the world.
— Steven Nederveen
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023 Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
2022 The Ocean In Us, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022 Golden Glimmers, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022 Places of Home, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 Home, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2021 Quietude, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 Infinite Possibilities, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020 State of Flow, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2019 Ascent, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
2019 Moments of Intrigue, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Between the Moon and the Sun, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2018 Light Play, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2018 Atmospheres, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Under Clear Skies, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
2017 Something in the Air, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 Nature Transforms, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2016 A Temperate Nature, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 Indigo Haze, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
2015 Valley of a Thousand Chateaux, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2014 Liquid Light, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
2013 Spectrum, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2012 Half Light, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2011 Land of Golden Lights, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Listening, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010 The Gentle Wash of Time, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 Illuminated, Galerie de Bellefeuile, Montreal, QB
2010 Ebb and Flow, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 Land of Golden Lights, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2007 Divine Creatures, Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Floating 1, Gallery 401, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Under the Influence | Contemporary Artists and the Masters Who Inspire Them, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2023 Photosynthetic, Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Holiday Glow, Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Autumn Show, Hangman Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Summer Heat, Praxis Gallery, Toronto, ON
2001 9-11 Emergency Show, Crane Street Studios, Queens, NY
Selected Public & Private Collections
Greenspan & Humphrey, Brian and Marla Greenspan
Armani Canada, Gerry Fedak
Fitzgerald Professional Managament Corp
Candice Olson – host of “Candice Tells All” and “Divine Design” Lifestyle tv programs
Sarah Richardson – host of the following lifestyle programs: “Sarah 101”, Sarah’s House”, Sarah’s Cottage”, “Design Inc” and “Room Service”
Al Fayed Family, London, UK
Kilgour Estates —Gluckstien Design Planning
Picton Mahoney Asset Management, Stephanie & David Picton
Cameron Mackendrick LLB
Alex Lifeson of Rush
The Keg Restaurant (7 pieces)
Milestones Restaurant
Education
1991-95 Bachelor of Design, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
1989-90 Medicine Hat College, AB
