Steven Rhude - Paintings/Drawings

Shed and Water, oil on board, 20"x 24" Steven Rhude, Gallery 78 Updated April17th , 2023 I thought I'd have a little bit of fun and interview Steven since he's so opinionated anyways. We are always discussing art together, so we went about it like this. In this post, I would write a question down and Steven would respond that same day. After a few weeks, the following interview is the result.                                                                                                  Simone Labuschagne SL: So you call yourself a Realist - what is Realism to you? SR: It's complicated. But I used to think a long time ago that Realism was just this thing where you held a mirror up to nature and copied it. I still hear that definition used in public gallery talks now and then. But we're all children when we start, and the mirror is a convenient reason, but limited in scope. Later, I then realised that nature had depth, a greater kind of depth than j

"No escape is possible for the non-figurative artist; he must march towards the consequence of his art." Piet Mondrian "Art is essentially about the memory and that is necessarily something which deals with how we encode experience and how that experience can be relived."                                                                                                    Guido Molinari Cantwell's Fence, Cape Spear Primary, oil on canvas, 38"x59", Steven Rhude One would expect to find a fence demarcating  the most easterly point of North America. It has taken on some reincarnations owing to rot and deterioration, restoration, and eventually a replica of the one present when Cape Spear was a working lighthouse and home to the light keepers family. It is currently being repaired as a result of damage incurred from a hurricane. Realistically, the fence is pristine white, with the unseen light house providing the traditional red colour for co