Meet the Artist, Steve Horan, biographical information

Meet the Artist
Steve Horan

BIOGRAPHICAL

Art has always been a part of my life. As a child I played with my fathe’s
pastels. He was a commercial artist who sketched with pastels. As I
grew up I won summer art contests all through grade school. However,
as many young men do I rebelled and wanted nothing to do with art --my
father’s profession. So I enrolled in the University of Chicago
and got an undergraduate degree in political science. However,
as a graduate student, when I flunked out of the business school,
I switched to Art History.

Like many other artists, I have held a variety of part time jobs to help
make ends meet for my wife and me. Most of these odd jobs taught
me skills that became an essential part of my artistic style. Doing show
card lettering and sign painting taught me how to handle a paint brush.
Doing commercial layout design for collateral print projects taught me the
basics of composition and color management that I use in my paintings.

I hope my audience enjoys my art as much as I enjoy creating it. Recently,
I have been producing paintings using acrylics or pastels. As a result of
living almost my entire life in Chicago, the major portion of my
recent work consists of nighttime representations of lights or images of
the city. I am interested in capturing basic geometric relationships
and if possible, some of the spiritual impact, of urban cityscapes.

When I start creating a new work of art, I begin by recalling a variety of
visual images I have stored in my memory. Some of these memories
are very fresh, being images seen only days or weeks before.
But some are from my childhood. I seek to discover in
each stored image its essence: qualities that had the power to impress
and astonish me when I first saw the image.

During the last thirty years, I have been juried into many national
exhibitions and one-man shows and had gallery representation in New
York, Chicago and in many other cities. In addition, agents and publishers
of my limited edition serigraphs have sold hundreds of my prints to
galleries and collectors. I have completed works of art for galleries,
corporations and private collectors as far away as Canberra, Australia,
where William Pei & Associates, architects, selected a suite of my limited
edition prints for installation in a hotel they designed.

PUBLICATIONS:           Art Scene Chicago 2000 by Ivy Sundell

REPRESENTATION:
Current:
Yajnavalka, Publisher, Houston, TX
Poor Richard's Art Gallery, Rogers, AR
Previous:
Button-Petter Gallery, Douglas, MI
Neville-Sargent Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fred Dorfman, Art Publisher, New York City, NY
Greg Copeland, Inc., Publisher and Artist Representative, Newark, NJ
Prajna Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collector’s Showroom, Chicago, IL
Peoria Art Guild Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Peoria, IL
Art Institute of Chicago Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fine Art Editions, Miami, FL
Keyes Gallery, Springfield, MO
Xanadu Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

ONE MAN SHOWS:
2010        Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, AR
2010        75th Street Gallery, Prairie Village, KS
2009        One-Man Show, Wishing Springs Gallery Studio, Bella Vista, AR
2007        One-Man Show, Keyes Gallery, Springfield, MO
2006        One-Man Show, Julie Wait Designs, Rogers, AR
1979        Neville Sargent Gallery, Evanston, IL
1974        Illinois Institute of Technology, Herman Hall, Chicago, IL
1974        Northern Indiana Art Association, Hammond, IN
1974        Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL

EXHIBITIONS:
2011        65th Annual International Exhibition, Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Pittsburgh, PA
2010        53rd Annual Delta Exhibition, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2010        25th Texas & Neighbors Regional Art Exhibition, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
2010        45th Central South Art Exhibition, Tennessee Art League, Nashville, TN
2009        Irene B. French Gallery, Merriam, KS
2008        Reconstructing Art Walk, Crystal Bridges at the Massey, Bentonville, AR
2008        Pastel National 2008 Show, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
2007        54th Annual Show of the National Society of Painters in Casein/Acrylic, NYC
2007        Art Expo Show, Boi Du Ouro Restaurant, Fayetteville, AR
2006        Vineyard Restaurant, Bentonville, AR
2006        MOAK 4 State Regional Exhibition 2006, Springfield, MO
2006        Strange Cities: the Unique and Unusual in Urban Landscape, Gallery 27+, NYC
2005        Third Place, Arkansas Pastel Society National Exhibition, Little Rock, AR
2005        Ozark Pastel Society Member Show, ACO, Springdale, AR
2005        ArtVisions 2005 Member Show, Village Art Club, Bella Vista, AR
2005        Fusion Gallery, Bentonville, AR
2004        Ozark Pastel Society Member Show, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK
2003        Ozark Pastel Society Member Show, Ft. Smith Art Center, Ft. Smith, AR
2003        Artists of NW AR Member Show, Sager Creek Art Center, Siloam Springs, AR
2002        Contemporary Art of Chicago, The Chicago Athenaeum, Schaumburg, IL
2001        One of a Kind Show, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
1995        9th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Midwest Pastel Society, Chicago, IL
1994        8th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Midwest Pastel Society, Chicago, IL
1990        Midwest Pastel Society Members Show, Chicago, IL
1986        Northwestern University Department of Education, Evanston, IL
1980        Centennial Exposition, Nashville Art Center, Nashville, TN
1977        Prajna Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
1977        Women’s Aid Society, Chicago, IL
1977        Robert Thom Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1976        New Horizons, Chicago, IL
1976        Indiana-Illinois Bicentennial Painting Traveling Exhibition
1976        Illinois Benedictine College
1975        DePaul University, Chicago, IL
1974        50th Anniversary of the Artists’ Guild of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1974        March Gallery (later Roy Boyd Gallery), Western Springs, IL

EDUCATION:
University of Chicago – College and Department of Art History
Awarded Graduate Study European Fellowship

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Artists of Northwest Arkansas
Ozark Pastel Society
Bella Vista Art Club

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Allerton Hotel, Chicago, IL
American Hospital Association
American Telephone and Telegraph
Amoco Oil
Borg-Warner
Chicago Board of Options Exchange
Chicago Realtors Association
Chicago White Metal Company
City of Chicago, Dept. Urban Planning
Continental Illinois Bank
Cummins Diesel
Detroit Renaissance Center
Encyclopedia Britannica
First National Bank of Glenview
Florsheim Shoe Company
Ford Motor Company, Atlanta, GA
General Motors, Detroit, MI
Gould, Oakbrook, IL
GTE of Indiana, Ft. Wayne
Holiday Inns, Duluth, MN
IBM, Woodstock, NY
J. Walter Thompson Advertising, NYC

Johnson and Johnson, Racine, WI
Lakepoint Towers, Chicago, IL
Marshall Field and Co., Chicago, IL
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
McDonalds Corp. Hdqtrs, Oakbrook, IL
Montgomery Wards
A.C. Nielson, Northbrook, IL
Peat, Marwick & Mitchell
William Pei & Associates, Canberra
Pillsbury
Playboy
Pullman Standard
Schiff, Hardin & Waite
Sears
S.E. Banking Corp., Winter Park, FL
Town & Country Bank, Newport, MN
UIDC Management, Chicago, IL
U.S. Federal District Court, Chicago, IL
U.S. Post Office, San Francisco
University of Illinois Research Hospital
Liver Transplant Ward, Chicago, IL

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Steve Horan
28 Elizabeth Drive, Bella Vista, AR 72715
479-855-1204, sjhoran@cox.net, www.artbystevehoran.com