Stephen Carpenter

176 Anderson Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
585-758-1410

http://www.stevecarpenterstudio.com/

 

Steve Carpenter has followed his passion for painting and teaching from the United States to Europe and back over the past four decades. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Steve moved to Rochester, N.Y., in the late '90s after a successful 30-year career in Monaco. Since 2002, he has operated the Steve Carpenter Gallery and Art Center, a school and gallery modeled on the European "l'atelier de peintre," in a renovated industrial building on Anderson Avenue in Rochester's Neighborhood of the Arts. Steve's works have been shown in 12 countries around the world, as well as locally. His most-recent international exhibition was at the Bell tree Tower in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2009. Steve is co-founder of and adviser to the New York Figure Study Guild, based in Rochester, and has created covers for five books published by Rochester-based poetry press BOA Editions. He has received numerous awards for his painting and his teaching, including the 2010 Artist of the Year Award from the Arts & Cultural Council of Rochester. Steve grew up in Portland, Oregon, and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles. He began his career as an illustrator for Walt Disney Company and worked for Disney for a year before heading to Europe in the early '60s to study the Old Masters. While painting, he also worked at a Paris ad agency and as a freelance illustrator before moving to Monte Carlo in the late '60s to teach and run his gallery. His many patrons included Princess Grace and Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Steve also created postage stamps and an official poster for the Principality of Monaco. Steve moved back to the United States in 1998, settling in Rochester, primarily because of his familiarity with the Rochester Zen Center. Steve and his wife, Judy, a children's librarian, live in Brighton, NY.

Education

1960 Gold Key award, Scholarship to Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
1961-1962 Scholarship winner to Art Center School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1965 Ecole des Beaux Arts / La Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France
1965 Studied extensively in European museums, focusing on paintings of Old Masters

Teaching and Work Experience

1961 Teacher at Art Center School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1962 Illustrator for Walt Disney (television, motion pictures), Burbank, CA
1963-1968 Freelance illustrator in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, England, Switzerland, and Belgium
1969 Teacher at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Monte Carlo, Teacher at American School, Monte Carlo, Official Poster of Principality of Monaco
1972-1982 Private studio classes, Monte Carlo
1996-1998 Commissioned to create postage stamps for the Principaute de Monaco.
1999-2002 Teacher at Memorial Art Gallery Creative Workshop, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2002-Present Steve Carpenter Gallery and Art Center, Rochester, NY

One Man Shows

1974 Anzere, Switzerland. Gallery Zodiaque
1975 Monte Carlo. Casino Atrium
Paris, France. Le Procope
Lyon, France. Berangere Gallery
1980 Luxembourg. Gallery Municipale d'Esch/ Alzette
1982 Lausanne, Switzerland. Musee des Beaux Arts: "Rencontre avec Steve Carpenter
Bern, Switzerland. Bruno Bussard Gallery"
1983 Zurich, Switzerland. Gallery Maisons Miroirs
1984 Monte Carlo. Multi-media "Words and Sounds on Steve Carpenter" (Poetry and music inspired from the paintings.)
1987 Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Cagnes-sur-Mer Museum
1988 Nice, France. Two large paintings commissioned by the banking group BPCA.
1991 Cannes, France. Estero Gallery
1993 New York City, NY. Art 54 Gallery: "An Interart Cultural Exchange Event" Venice, Italy. Palazzo Correr, Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricera Umanistica
1994 Callian, France. Abbey de Callian
2002 Rochester, NY. Dyer Arts Center: "Return to the New World"
Geneseo, NY. Lockhardt Gallery, Bertha Lederer Gallery
2006 Rochester, NY, Steve Carpenter Gallery and Art Center; "New Works"
2009 Zurich, Switzerland, Bell Tree Tower                                                                           2009 Rochester, NY, Steve Carpenter Gallery and Art Center, " Zurich to the Cosmos"

 

Group Shows

1973 Monte Carlo. Grand Prix des Arts Contemporains Nice, France. Worldwide Congress, J.C.I.
1974 Monte Carlo. Gallery des Art Contemporains
1975 Menton, France. Exhibition for the benefit of Sahel
1976 Paris, France. Salon de l'Automne Monte Carlo. Grand Prix des Art Contemporains
1977 Denmark. Veje Kunst Museum
1979 Nice, France. Nice University, International symposium: "Corps-Poesie-Peinture" Munich, Germany. Emil Ruff Gallery Monte Carlo. Forum Art Gallery
1981 Japan. Kobe Museum
1982 Nice, France. U.M.A.M.
1985 New Orleans, LA. International House
1986 Andorra. Museum of Andorra
1987 Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Cagnes-sur-Mer Museum: "XVIIIe International Painting Festival" Menton, France. Palais de l'Europe: "La Femme a la Plage"
1988 Baden-Baden, Germany
1989 Paris, France. FIAC
1991 Andorra. Museum of Andorra: "Confluencies"
1994 Beirut, Lebanon. Museum Sursock: "Leading European Artists for Lebanon"

Articles, Reviews, Films, and Television

1983 "Special People, Special Place" for IBM International with J. Cousteau, B. Borg, M. Besobrasova, R. Patterson
1984 "Rhythms and Visions", multi-media produced in San Diego by S. Keith, G. Morgan (poetry), L. Clutterham (music)
1987 "Life/Systems," produced by Mediane; D. Fisbach and C. de Buzon, text by C. Loubet
1994 "60 Minutes" interviewed for special on Monte Carlo Publications
1980 Rive Azureene. "Preludes, fugues, et contrepoints"d'un peintre nomme' Steve Carpenter."
1985 Gazette Monaco Cote D'Azur. "Un evenement l'exposition Steve Carpenter."
1986 Mesclun Artistica. "Steve Carpenter life systems."
1987 Monte Carlo Cote D'Azur. "A corps perdus, Steve Carpenter."
1994 Town and Country. "Celebrate Monaco." (with his Highness Prince Albert, Mats Wilander, and Alain Ducasse)
1997 International Review d'Art. "Steve Carpenter-Un homme de la Renaissance en marche vers l'an 2000."
2001 Lake Affect Magazine. "A Carpenter building a canvas."
2006 Rochester Magazine. "Art Values"                                                                              2009 H. Werner Stolz-Loliger, Art Expert. "Steve Carpenter, The Search for the Eternal Being," by Richard Zitrin
2010 Metropolitan Magazine. "The Importance of Influence, Steve Carpenter and Adam Frank," by Sarah Lentini

Local Collaboration

2000 BOA Editions book cover: "Book of My Nights," by Li Young Lee
2001 BOA Editions book cover: "Walking Light," by Stephen Dunn
2004 BOA Editions book cover: "Before and After the Fall," by Sandor Csoori
2008 BOA Editions book cover: " Voices," by Lucille Clifton                                          2008 BOA Editions Book cover: " The Hymns of Job and Other Poems," by Maya Bejerano                                                       

Let me hear from you-Steve Carpenter