STEPHEN PENTAK Here Nor There

On Cover (cropped): 2014, X.VIII, 2014 Oil on panel 64 x 40 in.

Here Nor There

January 8th – February 7th 2014 529 W. 20th St., Ste. 6W New York, NY 10011

STEPHEN PENTAK

Nearly  Opposite      all  there  is  in  pain,ng  is  form    all  that  ma1ers  in  pain,ng  is  content    all  there  is  in  pain,ng  is  surface    all  that  ma1ers  in  pain,ng  is  space    all  there  is  in  pain,ng  is  personal    all  that  ma1ers  in  pain,ng  is  universal    all  there  is  in  pain,ng  is  presenta,on    all  that  ma1ers  in  pain,ng  is  representa,on    all  there  is  in  pain,ng  is  contrast    all  that  ma1ers  in  pain,ng  is  accord;  an  echo    all  there  is  in  pain,ng  is  complexity    all  that  ma1ers  in  pain,ng  is  simplicity    all  there  is  in  pain,ng  is  s,llness    all  that  ma1ers  in  pain,ng  is  movement    all  that  ma1ered  in  a  pain,ng  is  gone    all  that  ma1ers  in  a  pain,ng  is  present    all  that  pain,ng  is,  is  chiaroscuro    

Stephen  Pentak,  2011  

2014, X.I, 2014 Oil on panel

18 x 72 in.

2014, X.III, 2014 Oil on panel

18 x 72 in.

2014, X.IV, 2014 Oil on panel 36 x 36 in.

Stephen Pentak’s formative work explored abstraction, though it was always informed by nature. His highly developed, mature style now depicts landscape with particular attention given to composition. The underlying structure lends a grounded tranquility to his imagery. Pentak continues to expand on his extended series of landscapes, creating a rhythmic sense of space between the middle ground and foreground. Though each scene is inspired by an actual place, Pentak paints only from memories of his frequent hiking trips and fly-fishing adventures across the country. He uses variations on iconic themes: a bend in a river, a point of land, an island, and always a broad expanse of reflective water. Painting wet on wet and wet on dry techniques with large house paint brushes, palette knives and scrapers, he brings all the elements together with an atmospheric perspective that simultaneously expands space and enhances the sense of stillness. “I mix paint, cover paint and scrape down to a color underneath, right on the surface of the painting,” he says. “The panel gives me a hard resistant surface I can scrape against.”    

(Detail) 2014, X.V, 2014

Oil on panel 36 x 36 in.

2014, XI.I, 2014 Oil on panel 18 x 72 in  

2014, X.V, 2014 Oil on panel

36 x 36 in.

2014, X.VI, 2014 Oil on panel

36 x 36 in.

2014, X.VII, 2014 Oil on panel

64 x 40 in.

EDUCATION  1978  MFA,  Tyler  School  of  Art,  Temple  University,  Philadelphia,  PA  1973  BA,  Union  College,  Schenectady,  NY      SELECTED  SOLO  EXHIBTIONS    2013  A  Painterly  Nature,  Thomas  Deans  Fine  Art,  Atlanta  GA,                      The  Modern  Landscape,  Karan  Ruhlen  Gallery,  Santa  Fe  NM                              Dual  Nature,  The  Haen  Gallery,  Asheville  NC                              Selected  Works,  Susan  Street  Fine  Art,  Solana  Beach  CA  2012    Persistent  Image,  The  Keny  Galleries,  Columbus,  OH  

 Nearly  Opposite,  Kathryn  Markel  Fine  Arts,  New  York,  NY    2011  The  Haen  Gallery,  Asheville,  NC  2010  Kinderhook  Creek,  Keny  Galleries,  Columbus,  OH  

 Thomas  Deans  Fine  Art,  Atlanta,  GA  2009  Kathryn  Markel  Fine  Arts,  New  York,  NY  

 Tender  Rivers,  Susan  Street  Fine  Art,  San  Diego,  CA    The  Haen  Gallery,  Asheville,  NC    Marie  Park,  Dallas,  TX  

2008  Bonfoey  Gallery,  Cleveland,  OH    Gibsone  Jessop,  Toronto,  ON    Keny  Galleries,  Columbus,  OH  

2007  Trasimeno,  Kathryn  Markel  Fine  Arts,  New  York,  NY    Trasimeno,  Susan  Street  Fine  Art,  San  Diego,  CA    Perry  Nicole  Fine  Art,  Memphis  TN  

2006  Gibsone  Jessop  Gallery,  Toronto,  ON    Union  College,  Schenectady  NY      Susan  Street  Fine  Art,  San  Diego,  CA  

2005  Kathryn  Markel  Fine  Arts,  New  York,  NY      Gallery  V,  Columbus,  OH      Perry  Nicole  Fine  Art,  Memphis  TN    

2004  Concept  Art  Gallery,  Pi1sburgh,  PA      Unending  River,  Susan  Street  Fine  Art,  San  Diego,  CA  

2003  Kathryn  Markel  Fine  Arts,  New  York,  NY    Gallery  V.  Columbus,  OH    Denise  Roberge  Gallery,  Palm  Desert,  CA  

2002  Linda  Schwartz  Gallery,  Cincinna,,  OH    

 Perry  Nicole  Fine  Art,  Memphis,  TN    

 

2002  Denise  Roberge  Gallery,  Palm  Desert,  CA      Susan  Street  Fine  Art,  San  Diego,  CA  

2001  Kathryn  Markel  Fine  Arts,  New  York,  NY    2002  2001  Cicero  Galllery,  Chicago,  IL  

 Denise  Roberge,  Palm  Desert,  CA    Juniata  College  Museum  of  Art,  Juniata,  PA    

2000  Gallery  V,  Columbus,  OH    Bonfoey  Co.,  Cleveland,  OH      Concept  Art,  Pi1sburgh,  PA    

1999  Rivers  Revisited,  Linda  Schwartz,  Cincinna,,  OH      Denise  Roberge  Gallery,  Palm  Desert,  CA  

1998  Bonfoey  Gallery,  Cleveland,  OH    Denise  Roberge  Gallery,  Palm  Desert,  CA  

1998  Bonfoey  Gallery,  Cleveland,  OH      Marie  Park,  Dallas,  TX    Gallery  V,  Columbus,  OH  

1997  Linda  Schwartz,  Lexington,  KY  1996  Spangler  Cummings,  Columbus,  OH    1994  Spangler  Cummings,  Columbus,  OH  

 Toni  Birckhead  Gallery,  Cincinna,,  OH  1993  Elemental  Structures,  Cleveland  Center  for  Contemporary  Art,  Cleveland,  OH  1992  J.  Rosenthal  Fine  Arts,  Chicago,  IL  

 PainIngs  From  the  Broadwaters,  The  Wexner  Center  for  the  Arts,  Columbus,  OH  1988  Hopkins  Gallery,  Ohio  State  University,  Columbus,  OH    1987  Davis  Gallery,  University  of  Akron,  Akron,  OH  1986  Belmont  Gallery,  Columbus,  OH  1985  People,  Places,  Pictures,  Cleveland  State  University,  Cleveland,  OH    1983  Noel  Butcher  Gallery,  Philadelphia,  PA    

 Cicero  Gallery,  Chicago,  IL  1980  Northeast  Missouri  State  University,  Kirksville,  MO  1979  Wilcox  Gallery,  Swarthmore  College,  Swarthmore,  PA  

SELECTED  GROUP  EXHIBITIONS    2012  Stephen  Pentak  and  Leslie  Wu,  Anne  Loucks  Gallery,  Glencoe,  IL  

 Inside/Outside,  Kathryn  Markel  Fine  Arts,  Bridgehampton,  NY      Lay  of  the  Land,  Karan  Ruhlen  Gallery,  Santa  Fe,  NM  

2011  Wet,  Southern  Ohio  Museum,  Portsmouth,  OH      MaOer  of  RepresentaIon,  The  Works,  Newark,  OH  

2010  Four  ArIsts,  Costello  Childs  Contemporary,  Sco1sdale,  AZ  2007  Chautauqua  Summer  FesIval,  Chautauqua  NY  

 Stephen  Pentak  and  Clayton  Merrell,  Concept  Art,  Pi1sburgh,  PA  2003  Landscapes:  Real  and  Imagined,  Susan  Street  Fine  Art,  San  Diego,  CA    

 Untrodden  Paths,  Massilon  Museum,  Massilon,  OH    2002  25th  Anniversary  ExhibiIon,  The  Drawing  Center,  New  York,  NY    2000  Common  Ground,  The  Ar,sts  House,  Jerusalem,  Israel  1999  Fall,  Jan  Cicero  Gallery,  Chicago,  IL  

 Common  Ground,  Riffe  Gallery  Columbus,  OH;  Weston  Gallery,    Cincinna,,  OH  1998  Back  to  Reality,  More  and  Less,  Riffe  Gallery,  Columbus,  OH    Earthly  Visions,  Jan  Cicero  Gallery,  Chicago,  IL  

1997  Four  Landscape  Painters,  Concept  Art,  Pi1sburgh,  PA    1995  Delfina  Studios,  London,  England  

 Linda  Schwartz,  Cincinna,,  OH  1995  Hammond  Galleries,  Lancaster,  OH  

 Off  The  Wall,  Cleveland  Center  for  Contemporary  Art,  Cleveland,  OH      Toni  Birckhead,  Cincinna,,  OH    

1994  Stephen  Boody  Fine  Art,  St.  Louis,  MO    1993  Galbreath  Gallery,  Lexington,  KY  1992  Toni  Birckhead,  Cincinna,,  OH    

 Kathryn  Fleck  Gallery,  Aspen,  CO    Cleveland  Center  for  Contemporary  Art,  Cleveland,  OH    Gallery  Group  Show,  J.  Rosenthal  Fine  Arts,  Chicago,  IL    Ohio  State  University/Ohio  University  Exchange,  Ohio  University,    Athens,  OH  

 

1991  J.  Rosenthal  Fine  Arts,  Chicago,  IL    Ohio  State  University  PainIng  Faculty,  Indiana  University  at    Bloomington,  Bloomington,  IN    Roberta  Kuhn,  Columbus,  OH  

1990  ArIsts  Who  Teach,  Emery  Center  of  the  Contemporary  Art  Center,    Cincinna,,  OH    Ohio  SelecIons  IX,  Cleveland  Contemporary  Art  Center,    Cleveland,  OH    

1989  Landscape,  Roberta  Kuhn  Gallery,  Columbus,  OH  1988  Landscape  Anthology,  Grace  Borgenicht  Gallery,  New  York,  NY    

 Columbus  Collects,  Columbus  Museum  of  Art,  Columbus,  OH  1987  Accent  on  Landscapes:  PainIngs  by  Ohio  ArIsts  From  the    Permanent  CollecIon,  

 Columbus  Museum  of  Art,  Columbus,  OH  1986  PainIng  Faculty,  Ohio  State  University,  Denison  University,    Granville,  OH    

 Governor's  Residence  CollecIon,  Columbus,  OH    Jan  Cicero  Gallery,  Chicago,  IL    AbstracIon,  Toni  Birckhead  Gallery,  Cincinna,,  OH  

1985  Columbus  Art  League,  Columbus,  OH      Belmont  Gallery,  Columbus,  OH    John  Pearson  and  Stephen  Pentak,  Ohio  State  University,  Newark,  OH  

1984  Columbus  Art  League,  Columbus  Museum  of  Art,  Columbus,  OH      Summer  Group  Show,  Noel  Butcher  Gallery,  Philadelphia,  PA      Gallery  Group  Show,  Jan  Cicero  Gallery,  Chicago,  IL  

1982  New  Drawing  in  America,  The  Drawing  Center,  New  York,  NY    Paint  on  Paper,  Jan  Cicero  Gallery,  Chicago,  IL  

1981  Statements  on  the  Picture  Plane,  Butcher  and  More  Galleries,    Philadelphia,  PA    UnItled:  1981,  Cheltenham  Art  Center,  Cheltenham,  PA  

1980  Third  Anniversary  ExhibiIon,  The  Drawing  Center,  New  York,  NY  1979  New  Shipment,  Kansas  State  University,  Manha1an,  KS    

 Faculty  ExhibiIon,  Tyler  School  of  Art,  Philadelphia,  PA  1978  Neill  Gallery,  New  York,  NY    

 Nexus  Gallery,  Philadelphia,  PA  

 

SELECTED  COLLECTIONS  Borden  Interna,onal,  Columbus,  OH  Central  Trust  Bank  Corpora,on,  Cincinna,,  OH    Cincinna,  Gas  and  Electric,  Cincinna,,  OH    Clark  State  Performing  Arts  Center,  Springfield,  OH    Conair,  Pi1sburgh,  PA  Coopers,  Lybrand,  Columbus,  OH  Emmends,  Hurd,  Kegler  and  Ri1er  Co.,  Columbus,  OH    Fidelity  Investments,  Blue  Ash,  OH  Fishel  Co.,  Columbus,  OH  Frank  Elmer  and  Ruth  Gless,  Columbus,  OH      General  American  Life,  St.  Louis,  MO    Hahn  Loeser  Parks,  Cleveland  and  Columbus,  OH  Hallmark,  Kansas  City,  MO  Hun,ngton  Mortgage,  Columbus,  OH  Kaiser  Permanente,  Cleveland,  OH  Louisville  Water,  Louisville,  KY  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dan  Ri1er,  Columbus,  OH    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jeffrey  McMullen,  Bucks  County,  PA    Mr.  And  Mrs.  Rich  Langdal,  New  Albany,  OH    Mr.  Bruce  Berry,  Chicago,  IL  Mr.  William  E.  O'Reilly,  Salander  &  O'Reilly  Galleries,  New  York,  NY    Mr.  William  Ginn,  Cleveland,  OH    Mrs.  Joanne  Hickey,  Bal,more,  OH  NCR,  Boston,  MA                                  

Ohio  Bar  Associa,on,  Columbus,  OH  PharmaNet,  Princeton  NJ  Ponoma  Valley  Medical  Ctr.,  Santa  Monica,  CA    Robert  Liebert,  Delaware,  OH.  Ron  Pizuh,  Columbus,  OH  Scripps  Howard,  Cincinna,,  OH    Spruce,  Chicago,  IL  State  Automobile  Insurance,  Columbus,  OH  Susan  and  Rocky  Saxbe,  Columbus,  OH    The  Hun,ngton  Na,onal  Bank,  Columbus,  OH    The  Schenectady  Museum,  Schenectady,  NY    The  Wexner  Center,  Columbus,  OH  Thomson  Electronics,  Circleville,  OH  U.S.  Shoe,  Cincinna,,  OH  Visi,ng  Nurses  Associa,on,  Cleveland,  OH    Wendt,  Bristol,  Columbus,  OH  Wiley  Publishing,  Hoboken,  NJ    William  H.  Mercer  Inc.,  Columbus,  OH    Wood  Development,  Columbus,  OH    Yellow  Freight,  Kansas  City,  MO      

SELECTED  AWARDS  AND  HONORS  2002  Ohio  Arts  Council  Individual  Ar,st  Fellowship,  Columbus,  OH  2001  Ohio  State  University,  College  of  the  Arts,  Columbus,  OH  2000  Ohio  State  University,  College  of  The  Arts  Travel  Grant  to    Israel,  Columbus,  OH    1997  Ohio  Arts  Council  Individual  Ar,st  Fellowship,  Columbus,  OH  1996                   Ohio  State  University,  College  of  The  Arts  Level  One  Research  

 Grant,  Columbus,  OH    1994    Ohio  State  University,  College  of  The  Arts  Research  Grant,    Columbus,  OH  1993  Ohio  State  University,  College  of  The  Arts  Research  Grant,    Columbus,  OH    1991  Ohio  State  University,  Faculty  Research  Grant,  Columbus,  OH  1989  Ohio  State  University,  Faculty  Research  Grant,  Columbus,  OH  

 Ohio  Arts  Council  Individual  Ar,st  Fellowship,  Columbus,  OH  1988  GCAC  Commission:  Purchase  of  a  pain,ng  for  Business-­‐Arts  

 Partnership  Award,  Columbus,  OH    1986  GCAC  Commission:  Purchase  of  two  pain,ngs  for  Business-­‐Arts  

 Partnership  Award,  Columbus,  OH    Ohio  State  University,  Seed  Grant,  Research  and  Graduate  Studies,    Columbus,  OH    

1985  Ohio  Arts  Council  Individual  Ar,st  Fellowship,  Columbus,  OH  1985  Ohio  State  University,  Research  Grant,  Research  and  Graduate  

 Studies,    Columbus,  OH  1984  Ohio  State  University,  College  of  the  Arts  Faculty  Research  and  

 Development  Grant,  Columbus,  OH    Columbus  Museum  of  Art  Award  for  Pain,ng,  and  Simson  Purchase    Award,  Columbus,  OH  

 

(Detail) 2014, XI.I, 2014 Oil on panel 64 x 40 in.