Steven Plount (American b. 1952)
Curriculum Vitae
Based in the Pacific Northwest, USA
Education
2007 Master of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, cum laude Metro State University of Denver, CO
1991 Certificate Graphic Design. The Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
74/78 Music and Fine Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
72/74 Music, Fine Art, and Literature, Shasta Junior College, Redding, CA
Awards
2009 Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant, New York, NY
05/07 Pratt Institute, Graduate Painting Scholarship Graduate Assistantship
2003 Metropolitan State University of Denver Vice-President’s Honor Roll
2002 Metropolitan State University of Denver President’s Honor Roll and The Golden Key International Honor Society, Colorado Scholars Scholarship
Selected Exhibits
2023 research, development, and creation of current works on paper and canvas
Published "la Cancion" painting book January 2023 : this large watercolor is one hundred and seventie-six sheets of 14” x 11” Arches bound with linen in folding signatures of 12 with hanging tabs at each end. The book is of the entire work with some poetry and some installation views.
2022- 4 week Artist’s Resdency, Chateau, Orquevaux France
20-21 N/a, World Quarantine. Working on projects and painting but not exhibiting.
2019 Morning, Noon, Evening, Night, Watercolor on 140# Arches WC Paper
24" x 72" (60.96cm x 182.88cm)
Donated to Children’s Cancer Society, Portland Oregon, USA.
Boy, Electronic Portrait from the India Portraits Series,
ProCreate, Pigmented Ink Print,
One World Trade Center, NY 10007 USA
Bandana Das, MA, Electronic Portrait of my Bengali grandson’s mother from my India Portrait Series, ProCreate, Pigmented Ink Print, The Affordable Art Fair Metropolitan Pavilion New York, NY 10011 USA
2018 Any Sky, Watercolors. Lara Sydney Gallery, Portland Oregon
15-17 Lotus and Chakra Watercolors, Hunt and Gather, Pearl District, Portland OR
13-14 Lotus and Chakra Watercolors, Hunt and Gather, Pearl District, Portland OR
Big 500 Artists’ Charity Exhibit & Sale for Portland Food Bank, Mark Wooley Gallery, Pioneer Place, Portland OR
2012 Sun Flowerhouse, Donation to Music As Medicine, Leftbank Annex, Portland OR|
Flowerhouse Paintings, Really Big Video, Portland, OR
Eight Sky Buddhas Donation to Online Benefit Auction for Maitripa College, Portland OR
13th Street First Thursday Arts Festival, Pearl District, Portland OR
2011 Drawings for Earthlings, Impermanent Natural Object Drawings at Sravasti Abbey.. Sravasti Abbey, Newport WA
Leaf Drawing, Tanner Springs Park Sidewalk, Portland OR
The Foundation of All Good Qualities, Bid for Good, Online Benefit Auction for Maitripa College, Portland OR
Sold! On Sisters, Sisters of the Road Online Auction, www.sistersoftheroad.org, Portland, OR
Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) Juried Art Auction, The Memorial Coliseum, Portland OR
2010 Hidden Among the Leaves, MilePost 5, Portland, OR
Five Monks, On the Occasion of the Building of the House of Colored Sand for the God of Compassion at the Portland Public Library, 2010, donated to the Shakyamuni Tibetan Buddhist Center and the Monks, Portland OR
Sketchbook Project, Arthouse, Brooklyn NY, Atlanta GA
2009 The Future in Retrospect: COTR, Worksound, Portland OR
Manor of Art Invitational, Mile Post 5, Portland OR
Brooklyn Comes East, Mill Creek, Long Island, NY
Native Soul Youth Benefit Auction, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Night of a Thousand Drawings Benefit, Artists Space, New York, NY
World Watercolor Painting Federation World Art Exhibit, Seoul, South Korea
2007 Various Exhibits, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2006 World Watercolor Painting Federation World Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
2005 Small Gems Group Exhibit, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
Pratt Masters Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Group Exhibit, Works on Paper, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
Sap Demons Installation, HAZMAT Art Space @ Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO
Odalisque and Untitled: Study for the Legend of St. Julien, Metropolitan State College of Denver’s Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO
Quartets and New Paintings, Fresh Art Gallery, Denver CO
2003 Dreamscicle, ILK Art Space @ Pirate Gallery Open Show, Denver, CO
A Lament, Curtis Center For the Humanities, Englewood, CO
Momentum, Fresh Art, Denver, CO
Written Image/Painted Word, Ten Laments, Invitational,
Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, CO
Soft, Invitational, Fresh Art, Denver, CO
Four Views of Denver, CoNet, Denver, CO
2002 Pulp; Works Of, On or About Paper, Fresh Art, Denver, CO
Open Heart Project Art Auction, Fresh Art, Denver, CO
Ten Laments, Fresh Art, Denver, CO
2001 Encaustic Evolution, Fresh Art, Denver, CO
1999 Abstract Paintings, Chair Series, Studio 1818, Denver, CO
Open Studio, Piggly Wiggly-McMarr Building Studios, Denver, CO 1996
1997 Monothon 10, College of Santa Fe, NM
1995 Paintings and Tapestries, Artists Series, Albuquequeque NM |
Pastels and Tapestries, Red One Gallery, Old Town, NM
1994 Black Tapestry:The River, Colorés Museum Invitational, Corrales, NM
1993 Savage Garden Series, Sanguine/Charcoal Drawings & Tapestry Albuquerque
United Artists Visions of Excellence Juried Exhibit, Albuquerque, NM Savage Garden Series: Shroud. Annual Painting, Drawing, Sculpture and Print Juried Exhibit, Fuller Lodge Art Center, Los Alamos, NM
1992 Manzano Mountain Spirits-The Anthropomorphs
Group Exhibit Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1990 Tapestries, Group Show at Weavings/Southwest, Taos NM
Tapestry and Drawing, Albuquerque United Artists, Juried Exhibit