STATEMENT
When starting a piece I look back at what I’ve done recently, decide on an idea, and just get going. I’ve always worked very directly, in a piece by piece way, from the surface or ground up. Sometimes I’ll do a simple sketch but many times not. So there’s not a lot of planning, just myself and the material, working together having a conversation. I never really know how a work may turn out but generally feel that if there’s nothing nagging me about the piece then it's done.
BIO
Steve Bartlett has shown mostly on the West and East Coasts since graduating with a B.A. in Studio Art from Kenyon College in Gambier, OH in 1984. His sculpture is in the collections of the Zillman Art Museum, The Port of San Diego, City of Los Altos CA, City of Oakland CA, corporate collections, and numerous private collections. Since moving to Maine from California in 2014, Steve has shown at The Zillman Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Icon Contemporary Art, Fred Giampietro Gallery, and Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 “All Small”, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2023 “One by One”, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2021 “Exactly: precision and process”, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2021 New Acquisitions: Friends Gallery, Zillman Art Museum, Bangor ME
2021 Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
2021 “Untitled, 2020: Art From Maine In A ____ Time”, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2020 Maine Wood 2020 Biennial, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport, ME
2019 “Gathering V”, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2019 Steve Bartlett and Garry Mitchell, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2019 “Looking to the Future: Recent Acquisitions”, Zillman Gallery, Zillman Art Museum
2019 “Wall Sculptures”, Freud Monk Gallery
2019 Steve Bartlett and Will Lustenader, Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT
2018 Steve Bartlett: Works from 2013-2018, Zillman Art Museum, (formerly the University of Maine Museum of Art), Bangor, ME
2018 “Gathering IV”, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2018 New Geometry II, Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT
2017 Icon Contemporary Art, Mark Wethli, Cassie Jones & Steve Bartlett, Brunswick, ME
2016 Gather IV, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2016 "3 Galleries. 8 Walls", Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2015 Summer Show, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2013 Left Coast Annual, Juror, Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator UC Berkeley Art Museum, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2011 Arts on Fire XV, Juror, Alison Gass, Assistant Curator of Painting & Sculpture San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2010 Everything But The Kitschen Sync 13th Annual Group Show, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Everything But The Kitschen Sync 12th Annual Group Show, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2008 "Crazy For Cult", Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA
2008 "Everyone's in Together", Gallery 1988, San Francisco, CA
2008 "Toys", Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Everything But The Kitschen Sync 10th Annual Group Show, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Juried Annual, Topanga Canyon Gallery, Lisa Melandri, Santa Monica Museum of Art
2006 "Small Wonders II", Pharmaka Art, Curator, Tyler Stallings, Laguna Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006 "Of This World", Gallery 825, Curator, Laurie Steelink, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 2006 Juried Open, Topanga Canyon Gallery, Curator, Chris Burden, Topanga, CA
2005 “Wallworks”, LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Gremillion & Co, Houston, TX
1998 Gremillion & Co, Houston TX
1998 Atmosphere, New York, NY
1997 Gremillion & Co., The Annex, Houston, TX
1997 "Sculpture Walk", Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
1996 6th "Outdoor Sculpture on Loan" Competition for the City of Los Altos, CA
1996 "Boomerang", San Francisco International Airport, Limn Gallery, SF, CA
1996 25th Anniversary Outdoor Sculpture Show, Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque, NM
1995 Shidoni Gallery, Tesque, NM
1994 "El Paseo Sculpture Exhibit", City of Palm Desert's Art in Public Places Program, Palm Desert, CA
1993 "Go Figure: Figures in Motion", Opts Art, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Precious Paragons", The Atrium Gallery at 901 Market, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Angels", Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Vernissage", Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Graham & James Art Program, One Maritime Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Earth Day Exhibition", Union Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1991 Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR
1991 "Figures in Motion", An Exhibition of Figurative Sculpture at Washington Square, Washington, DC
1991 "Sculpture Exhibition", Modesto Junior College Art Gallery, Modesto, CA
1991 "Surrealist Salon", Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Avenue of the Arts Sculpture Exhibition", College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1990 "Sculpture and Abstraction", San Francisco State Student Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 "Bay Arts '90", Arts Council of San Mateo County, Belmont, CA
1989 "Continental Drift", Members of New York's Sculptor's Guild & selected Northern California sculptors, San Francisco, CA
1989 "Torch and Anvil", SF Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 "Opening Exhibition", Olin Library, Gambier, OH
1985 "Senior Exhibit", Colburn Gallery, Gambier, OH
1985 Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, KY
1985 "Works in Competition", Colburn Gallery, Gambier, OH
1983 "The Annual Competitive Show" Colburn Gallery, Gambier, OH
1982 "Works in Competition", Colburn Gallery, Gambier, OH
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Zillman Art Museum
San Diego International Airport
The Neiman Marcus Collection
United Airlines
City of Los Altos, CA
Santa Fe Snyder Corporation
NanoSystems
Adobe Systems
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
City of Oakland, CA
&
Private Collections
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
1997 Commission of large-scale sculpture entitled "Guillermo", Port of San Diego, San Diego International Airport, Lindbergh Field
1993 25 Charcoal Drawings for the Neiman Marcus Collection, San Francisco, CA
1993 2 Site-specific sculptures, Atherton, CA, Bauer Interior Design, San Francisco, CA
1992 Sculpture for the Neiman Marcus Collection, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas
1991 Wall Piece for The Sports Medicine Shop at St.Francis Memorial Hospital, Robert Bum Architects, San Francisco, CA
1989 World Series Trophy, commissioned by the San Francisco & Oakland Chambers of Commerce
1988 Big Bird, for performance of "Crystal Cutter", Multi-Image Showcase, Theatre Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1984 Wycoff A Sword Memorial Prize in Sculpture, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
1983 Merit Award, "The Annual Competitive Show", Colburn Gallery, Gambier, OH
1982 Wycoff A. Sword Memorial Prize in Sculpture, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
EDUCATION
1984 B.A. in Art, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH.
PUBLICATIONS
New Haven Independent, Feb 2019, Artists Set Bodies in Motion by Brian Slattery at Fred Giampietro Gallery
Art New England, July/Aug 2018, Steve Bartlett: Works From 2013-2018, Carl Little
USA Today, July 9, 2018, 10 Best on Maine Museum Trail, Lois Alter Mark
New Haven Daily Nutmeg, Feb 2018, Shape Shift, Kathy Leonard Czepiel
Press Herald, Oct 2016, Gather IV offers a strong lineup in abstraction, Daniel Kany
Portland Phoenix, Aug 2015, Getting Physical: Foregrounding the Material Nature of Art, Britta Konau
Palo Alto Daily News, Feb.2001
Los Altos Town Crier, Feb. 2001
San Diego Tribune, April 1997
Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb., 1996
San Jose Mercury News, May 1994
Merced Sun Star, Nov., 1991
Modesto Bee, Oct., 1991
SF Bay Guardian, Aug., 1991
Grants Pass Daily Courier, July 1991
Dance Magazine, Jan.
1990 Oakland Tribune, Oct.,
1989 Boston Globe, Oct., 1988