Andrew Stevovich

Andrew Stevovich: Alternate Universe

Adelson Galleries is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent works by Andrew Stevovich from September 29-October 29, 2010. This will be the first show for the Massachusetts-based artist since his critically acclaimed retrospective traveled to the Hudson River Museum and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in 2008.

Featuring some 40 oils and related drawings, the Adelson Galleries show provides a wonderful sampling of the artist’s ordinary people in timeless settings – at once thoroughly contemporary and unquestionably nostalgic. Compositions reveal everyday scenes peopled by stylized characters that seem to demand a closer look. Stevovich gives us men and women whose furtive glances and distant stares reveal loneliness and longing evocative of Hopper, while their clean lines and brilliant color profess Stevovich’s printmaking skills, and love of Renaissance paintings.

Andrew Stevovich was born in Austria in 1948, immigrated to United States as an infant, and grew up in Washington, D.C. He earned an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. He has had over 30 solo exhibitions and been included in some 50 group shows. His work can be found in many important private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Boston Public Library; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA and the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Stevovich has been represented by Adelson Galleries for 30 years and lives in Northborough, Massachusetts, with his wife.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by New York-based art critic James Gardner.