Earth Day: Environmental Advocacy Through Art |
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On this Earth Day, Stride Arts is honored to present Mr. Stephen Hall, whose captivating paintings scream the importance of environmental sustainability. Let us take these powerful artworks as a warning and awaken everyone to love and protect our planet! |
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Stephen Hall, Contemporary Artists. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, moved to New York in 1978 and began exhibiting his work in the East Village in the early ‘80s. Stephen Hall has had a long and successful career since his arrival in New York, exhibiting in the USA, the UK, Mexico, and Japan. His work is in numerous prestigious private and corporate collections worldwide, such as the private collection of Andy Warhol, Diana Ross and Johnny Depp. |
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Stephen always loved painting and drawing. His paintings appear photorealistic albeit with a surreal twist. In his work he believes his responsibility as an artist is not only to document our times but to also express and highlight the important issues in our lives especially in his recent works. Given the fragility of our environment and the threats to individual freedom he never hesitates to express his concerns about gun control, global warming and environmental issues affecting our society in an artistic and humorous ways. |
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Fat-Free Ocean, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 56 x 46 in “Obvious commentary on the polluting of our oceans. We as artists must take a stand and document our collective involvement.” |
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Bad Habitat, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 in This animal is the Great Kudu, I've placed him in a plastic environment with a can of oil to highlight the loss of habitat and extinction of so many species globally as a result of fossil fuels and plastics and human encroachment. |
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The Last Narcissus, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 52 x 43 in A young eco-warrior, defending the last Narcissus against the backdrop of a tire dump. |
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“I am interested in showing the relationships we all have, whether in time or place. I also try to show the pattern in chaos and, perhaps, the overload of information that we are bombarded with in our modern times." - Stephen Hall |
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