STEVE

KARLIK

Steven James Karlik 24 Monitor Street 3rd floor Brooklyn, New York 11222 Tel. No. 347-689-3039 Cell No. 347-242-1409

alvestadkarlik@earthlink.net. www.stevekarlik.com

EDUCATION

Graduate Program, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Graduate in Fine Arts, Painting 1997 Focus on Color Field Painting and Modernist Painting Theory, Thesis, Equipoise, the analysis of abstract paintings illusionistic qualities vs. theoretical object hood. Advisors Linda Francis and Eric Miles

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Two years Intensive study of Contemporary Art Criticism under Robert C. Morgan, with a focus on Post Modern critique, 1997.

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, 1994

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 “Shift” Gallery 3, Brooklyn, MY 2005 “Steve Karlik” Minus Space 2001 "Burgundy Paintings" Restaurant Saul, Brooklyn, NY 2000 "Red, Black and Gold" Restaurant Saul, Brooklyn, NY 1999 "Recent Paintings" Restaurant Saul, Brooklyn, NY 1998 “Still Abstraction” Solar Grandjean de Montigny – Centro Cultural Puc – Rio, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2007 “Sydney Non Objective” (SNO), Sydney, Australia “Collaboration” Daniel Feingold and Steve Karlik, Minus Space Project Room, Brooklyn, NY “Continuum” 70th Anniversary of the American Abstract Artists, St. Peters College O’Toole Gallery, Jersey City, NJ “War is Over II” Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2006 “Pulse”, 6th Annual Biennial for Emerging Artists, 1708 Gallery, Richmond Virginia “Presentational Painting III” Hunter College, NY “War is Over” Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2005 “AAF” Pier 92, David Allen Gallery “Steve Karlik” Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY “Small Works” Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, New York University, New York, NY “Winter Group Show and Auction” D.U.M.B.O. (DAC) Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY 2004 “Winter Group Show and Auction” D.U.M.B.O. (DAC) Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Composition in HiFi” David Allen, Brooklyn, NY 2003 “Winter Group Show and Auction” D.U.M.B.O. (DAC) Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Anita Schwartz Gallery” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2002 “Reinventing Landscape" Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “San Francisco Art Fair” Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Painting Installation” Advanced Realty, Florham Park, NJ. Curated by Art Assets, LLC “Winter Group Show and Auction” D.U.M.B.O. (DAC) Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “AAF” Pier 92, Pentimenti Gallery "Theme, Source, Resource, Contemporary Landscape Painting” D.U.M.B.O. (DAC) Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Four Artists/Four Media” Curated by Marla Goldwasser and Blair Voltz, New York, NY 2001 “Big Names, Winter Group Show and Auction” D.U.M.B.O. (DAC) Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Paintings from 2001” Bayerische Landesbank, Masal Fine Art, New York, NY 2000 “75 Works: Painting, Drawings, Sculpture and Photography” GAle Gates et al, Brooklyn, NY “Winter Group Show and Auction” D.U.M.B.O. (DAC) Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Abertura Exposicao” Mrecedes Viegas Escritorio de Arte, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil 1999 “Size Matters, 400 Artists” GAle Gates et al, Brooklyn, NY “An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture” GAle Gates et al. Brooklyn, NY “Carrying On” Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1998 “Pelham Art Center Group Show” Pelham, NY “Balance” Korean Cultural Center, 460 Park Avenue, New York, NY “Section 33” D.U.M.B.O. (DAC) Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Williamsburg Bridges Tibet” Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY “Small Works” Twenty-First Annual Exhibition, New York University, New York, NY 1997 “Equipoise” Thesis Show for the Graduate of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY “Delaware College Group Show” Delaware College o0f Art and Design, Wilmington, DE “Juried MFA Show” Pratt Institute, Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY 1996 “The “SoHo Annual” 426 West Broadway, New York, NY 1995 “Untitled” The New Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Working Space” The East Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1994 “Current Concerns” Portland State University, Portland, OR

AWARDS

Excellence Award for Outstanding Merit in Graduate Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 1997

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kristin Beal-DeGrandmont and Peter Baldes, Pulse, Catalogue for the Biennale Exhibition “Pulse” Gallery 1708, Richmond Virginia. May 2006

Gabriele Everts, “Presentational Painting III, Catalogue for the Exhibition. Hunter College, NY, February 2006.

Stephan Maine, Painting Presentation, The Pleasures of “Presentational Painting” at Hunter College/Times Square Gallery. Art Reviews, Art net, April 7, 2006

Presentational Painting III, Art in and around Times Square and Port Authority, This Week In New York, Volume 5 number 43, March 29, 2006

Mathew Delegate and Rossana Martinez: Interview by Chris Ashley, Catalogue for the Exhibition “Steve Karlik”. Minus Space publications, Brooklyn, NY, September 2005.

Vicky Perry, “Abstract Painting: Techniques and Ideas. Watson-Guptil Publications, New York, NY.

Edward J. Sozanski, “Reinventing Landscape” Art Reviews, The Philadelphia Enquirer, Friday November 8, 2002.

R.B. Strauss, “A Land of the Mind” Art Reviews, The Philadelphia Downtown Ledger, November 21, 2002.

Roberta Fallon, Sketches – “On The Horizon” Philadelphia Weekly, No 39, November 13, 2002.

R.B. Strauss, “An Autumnal Impetus”. Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, October 2002.

Enzo Siciliano, “Nuovi Talenti: Ultimo Indirizzo Brooklyn” Art Reviews, il Lunedi de La Republica. Anno 6, Numero 23 L. 1500, c 0,77 in Italia, Lunedi 14 Giugno 1999. 1998

Luiz Camilo Osorio, “Ainda Abstracao” Art Reviews, O-Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 07 de Decembro de 1998.

Daniel Feingold, Curador, Exposicao: “Ainda Abtracao” – “Still Abstraction”. Solar Grandjean de Montigny – Centro Cultural Puc – Rio, Pontifficia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro – Brazil.

Anna Paula Conde, “Dupla de Abstratos” Exposicao Arte, Jornal O Dia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 07 Decembro de 1998.

Robert Mahoney, “Section 33” Art Reviews, Time Out New York, Issue NO. 153. Aug 27 – Sept 3rd, 1998

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of the American Abstract Artists Association, 2005 Minus Space reductive and concept based art, member since founding in 2000 Represented by Anita Schwartz Gallery, Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Ober Gallery, in Kent Connecticut. Pierogi Gallery, Flat files, Brooklyn, NY, 2003

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