Steven Rhude - Paintings/Drawings

Double Bind, o/p, 24" x 24", Steven Rhude, Gallery78 "I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome... Atlantic Canada's culture of defeat will be hard to overcome as long as Atlantic Canada is actually physically trailing the rest of the country." ( New Brunswick Telegraph Journal , May 29, 2002) - Stephen Harper Atlantic Canadians may never know just what exactly Harper meant by a "culture of defeat", other than the apparent reference to overcoming a defeatist attitude is essential for economic prosperity - something obvious to most people involved in even the smallest community initiative. We may also never know whether Harper has any views on what culture is in this age of mass communication, since he is indeed a product of mass communications media. He is as we now know standing on the other side of what can only be called a huge chasm ...

Bread Line, o/p, 20" x 24", Gallery 78 Food and Art Oil Painting Class with Steven Rhude September 22nd  to November 10th  (Tuesdays, 7- 9pm) This eight week workshop examines the role of “Food” in art using “Wolfville’s local market” as an information source. Working through the lens of psychology and techniques inherent in the tradition of representational painting, students will explore why food is so important a subject today for contemporary expression. Using photographic sources, our purpose is to develop the ability to see, perceive, inscribe, and translate experience as it relates to food and a composition of the student’s choice. The student will learn to build a stretcher frame from scratch, stretch and prime canvas, and enhance their knowledge of the representational legacy of food in art. The workshop will be taught by Steven Rhude Note: Open to all skill levels. Materials not included. Participants will be provided with a materia...

Ship of Theseus from Grates Cove, o/p, 24" x 48", Steven Rhude, Gallery78 The ship of Theseus , also known as Theseus' paradox , is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object which has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object . The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late first century. Plutarch asked whether a ship which was restored by replacing each and every one of its wooden parts remained the same ship. The paradox had been discussed by more ancient philosophers such as Heraclitus , Socrates , and Plato prior to Plutarch's writings; and more recently by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke . Several variants are known, including the "grandfather's axe", which has had both its head and handle replaced. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus Steven Rhude

Blue Moon, 0/p, 24" x 24", Steven Rhude Post Landscape Near Caning, o/p, 24" x 48", Steven Rhude Far from the Sea, o/p, 24" x 24", Steven Rhude It's true on the one hand they are just bales of hay bound up in a field near a small place called Caning. But on the other hand, it may also be true they are linked with the moon and the sun, rolling across the fields as the moon and sun roll across the sky. Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS