MYTHOS
Exhibition Dates: JANUARY 3 - 28, 2023
Reception: Thursday, JANUARY 5, 6pM - 8pm
Pinar Yilmaz
Fran Del Re
The Painting Center is pleased to present MYTHOS, a group exhibition with artists in the program League at Large at the Art Students League. The exhibition will run from January 3-28, 2023. Guest Curated by Clintel Steed, the group exhibition explores visual artists as storytellers. Bringing together work by seventeen artists who study at the League, the exhibition features a variety of disciplines in works inspired by classical mythology, legend, and global folklore. Tackling themes of love, discovery, and metamorphosis, MYTHOS shows how the tales that define our past can also populate our present. Artists include: Susan Barrow, Ezra Bookstein, Jeff Burchfield, Victoria Carter, Steve Danielson, Fran Del Re, Judy Fox, Karen Hopkins Harrod, Meg Kaizu, Seon Young Kim, Natalia Koren Kropf, Chia Hsuan Kuo, Cynthia Riddell, Emily Sabree, Helen Shulov, Tomoko Takeda, and Pinar Yilmaz.
About The Curator: Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Clintel Steed (b. 1977) lives and works between New York City and a small monastery in a discreet location on sacred land in upstate New York. Steed earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received praise and accolades for his vigorous and inexhaustible pursuit of painting. Steed earned his MFA from Indiana University. There, his work blossomed. Immediately afterwards, Steed moved to Harlem to continue his life’s work of painting. While working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steed pursued and completed a degree in Advanced Studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. Steed’s work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Most recent solo exhibitions include, Behind the Hood at Mark Borghi, Sag Harbor, NY (2021); Allegory of Now at M+B, Los Angeles (2020); Compendium Part II, Mark Borghi Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY (2019); and Clintel Steed: Paintings at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY (2018). Steed’s work was also recently in the following group exhibitions, Incise, Echo and Repeat at The Clemente Center, NY (2019); New Narrative Now at Michael David & Company, NY (2019); Emoji Show at Klaus von Nichtsagend Gallery, NY (2018). Steed’s work is held in both private and public collections in the United States.
About League at Large: The Art Students League is committed to offering exhibition opportunities to our students. League at Large is a program that showcases student artwork in public venues outside the League in order to increase exposure to and appreciation of their work. Students who participate in League at Large gain experience submitting their materials to open calls, preparing their work for display, and marketing their work for sale. Since its inception in 2006, League at Large has placed work by more than 800 students in more than 200 exhibitions. Past League at Large exhibitions have taken place at major venues, including AT Kearney, ChaShaMa, Conference Board, New York International Arbitration Center, Riverside Park Conservancy, and Squire Patton Boggs as well as the Affordable Art Fair and Governors Island Art Fair.
About The Art Students League of New York: The Art Students League of New York has been making high-quality, studio-based art education accessible to all for almost 150 years. Founded in 1875 by a group of independent artists who dreamed of a place where anyone with a passion for art would have the space to make it, today The League hosts over 100 classes, taught in-studio and online. No applications, no prerequisites, and affordable, month-to-month tuition allow students to find their freedom and pursue their artwork free from the constraints of dogma. Our instructors educate students in an environment that values mentorship and collegiality, and centers diverse art-making practices, including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and assemblage. Our ongoing lineage of accomplished instructors is matched by our legacy of extraordinary students: Artists who have studied or taught at The League include Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Norman Lewis, James Rosenquist, Ai-Weiwei, and many others. View our website at theartstudentsleague.org or follow us on social media @ASLNYC / #ASLNYC.
