Steven Rhude - Paintings/Drawings

Kissing the cod, oil on canvas, 32" x 32", Steven Rhude

by Simone Labuschagne   Saving Everett, oil on canvas, 40" x 90", Steven Rhude   SL: I've lived with you for over thirty years now, in cities, towns, and remote regions, seen a lot of your art go under the bridge, observed your creative process from afar and up close, modeled for you, painted with you, taught with you, criticized you when it was needed, and discussed and debated art with you for countless hours. However, I've never anticipated a painting like this coming from you - that is one depicting a murder scene. It seems, along with other things, the Maud Lewis legacy has preoccupied you for some time now, ever since your show at Acadia University Art Gallery with Laura Kenney https://laurakenneyhandhookedrugs.blogspot.com/ .   So, tell me why did you make this painting?   SR: There are paintings that I want to do, and there are paintings that I have to do... I suppose Saving Everett falls into the latter category - it needed to be said. 

Woman with her Buoy, oil on canvas, 30" x 30", Steven Rhude "Paul Durand Ruel, forced the comparison to earlier Madonna and child groupings by calling her the painter of "la saint famille moderne" (Matthews, p. 76). But, she portrays the mother and child relationship as a significant part of every day life and experience thus delivering that relationship from its role as a sterile icon of redemption and fertility to a relationship significant in its social importance."  https://mountainscholar.org/…/STUF_1002_Mott_Cynthia_Mother… Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS