Steven Gordon

THE ART OF STEVEN GORDON
I started drawing at a young age and with encouragement from my teachers and family, pursued a future as an artist. After high school, I enrolled in the University of Wisconsin, Madison where I received a Bachelors degree in Art in 1973. I went on to graduate study at Washington University in St. Louis and received my Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting in 1976. I originally took artistic inspiration from my local surroundings, painting everyday objects, people and street scenes. My photo-realistic paintings expressed my perspective; how things look to me, the color and the light of a commonplace scene. In 1977, I travelled west to settle in the Napa Valley but before being able to open my own studio and gallery, I started a job with Domaine Chandon winery. I had yearly showings of my work at the winery selling my work to customers and staff who fell in love with my work. These shows enabled my wife and I to travel annually to Europe for a month to study various museum and gallery collections and have a generally wonderful time exploring and seeing the sights. Certain insights were gained during these travels, but it is the unique character of the landscape of California that encouraged my artistic dev...

EDUCATION

1976 MFA in Painting, Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO

1973 BS in Art, University of Wisconsin, School of Education, Madison, WI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000-2013 The Gordon Gallery, Yountville, CA
2010 G Studio, Napa, CA
2008 San Francisco Convention and Visitors
Bureau, San Francisco, CA
2006 Paradise Lost and Found, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
1999 The Gallery, Burlingame, CA
1996 Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1994 Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1994 Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, CA
1993 Codorniu Napa Winery, Napa, CA
1993 I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
1990-1991 Convergence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016-2023 Erdreich White Fine Art, Boston
2014-2015 Christopher Hill Galleries, St. Helena, Healdsburg CA
2010 G Studios, Group Show, Napa, CA
2008-2009 I Wolk Gallery, Gallery Artists Group Show, St. Helena, CA
2007-2008 111 Paintings, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004-2008 Group Show, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
2007 California Painting - Plein Air Tradition, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
2005 Lynn House Gallery, Three-person Show, Antioch, CA
2003 In Good Company, The Harvard Club Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 William Zimmer Galle...