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Image: © Doris Steider
“Out in the Meadow” Egg tempera, 9" x 12", $2400 |
An art career is a choppy ride. Some thrills. Some spills. Much agony. Some ecstasy. One day you win the sweepstakes in the national competition and the next you are rejected from a local one. You sell out at one gallery show and bomb out at the next. And after each experience on the teeter-totter comes soul-searching. Is the work itself not good enough, prices too high (or too low), too large, too small, too foreign or too local or is it the times or the time - the big ball game on that night, the week of the State Fair, the day before taxes are due or the day after or the week the stock market fell 50 points?
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And the thing that makes it all so excruciating of course is that it is so intimate - so much you. It's not the stamped-out toy car or from the great cosmetic vat. It's the expression of you and your choices and your understandings. What many an abstract painter does not realize is the basic emotion also involved in creation of a realistic or representational work. There is still the choice of what to paint, whether serene or churning or questioning, story-telling or simply mood-setting and the forms and directions necessary to embody that emotion you want to convey to the viewer. It's all you. You saw it. You composed it, and you painted it and if you're not very careful to keep the Deep Self of you safe and separate, a rejection of it is a rejection of you.
"Gift of Gold"
Egg tempera
9" x 12"
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"This wildly accelerating land we live in requires a new idiom. I'm painting about the invisible worlds that are the playground of the visible...about the miracles of sunsets and dew on the dandelions and rainbows that end the other side of the mountain or almost at your fingertips...about mountains that exist magnificently and majestically for a moment and then disappear into a curtain of lowering mist." -from A Vision of Silence: The Egg Tempera Landscapes of Doris Steider
"From Here to Eternity"
Egg tempera
26" x 16"
$6700
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"I'm painting from my heart's vision of our land. You don't see my sunset, but perhaps you will see in my painted description the colors your world needs for its own harmony. If we believe in the miracles all around us, we'll begin to see the magic happening. This is what I'm stretching my mind and my heart and my deepest inner self to paint." -from A Vision of Silence: The Egg Tempera Landscapes of Doris Steider
"A Tree in Summer"
Egg tempera
18
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Education |
1965 M.A. in Fine Art, Univeristy of New Mexico
1945 B.S. in Applied Design, Purdue University
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Selected Solo Exhibitions |
2008 Dartmouth Street Galleries (DSG), Albuquerque, NM
2001-2008 Henington Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992, 1999 Purdue University
1972-1983 Nebraskaland Days, North Platte NE
1967-1981 Baker Gallery, Lubbock, TX
Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Over 125 gallery shows across the USA
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Selected Group Exhibitions |
2004-2005 Featured Artist, National Exhibitions Foundation, Lubbock, TX
2002 First Prize, American Academy of Women Artists Exhibition, Contemporary Southwest Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2001 American Academy of Women Artists Exhibition, Merrill Johnson Gallery, Denver, CO
2000 American Academy of Women Artists Exhibition, Contemporary Southwest Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1997 American Academy of Women Artists Exhibition, Clymer Museum, Ellensburg, WA
1996 Western Academy of Women Artists, Canyon City, CA
1987 The Rio Grande Exhibition, A New Mexico Tapestry
1985 Focus International, American Women in Art, Nairobi, Kenya
1978 10th National Art Show, La Junta CO
1976 Fort Robinson Professional Western Exhibition, Ft. Sill, OK
1965 Sun Carnival, El Paso, TX; Museum of Fine Arts Biennial, Santa Fe, NM;
Invitational Traveling Show, Portland OR
1964 Witte Museum of Western Art, San Antonion, TX; Army Traveling Print Show;
Museum of New Mexico Traveling Show (also '65, '67, '68, 69, '73)
1963 National League of American Pen Women, Smithsonian Institution
1959 National Representational Art Annual (Honorable Mention), Gilcrease Institute, Tulsa OK
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Selected Public and Private Collections |
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Time, Inc.
University of New Mexico Art Museum
New Mexico Governor's Collection
New Mexico State Fair Collection
Loewen Group, British Columbia, Canada
Horizon Laboratories, Columbia MO
CFS, Inc. Austin, TX
Over 2500 private collections in the US and abroad
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Selected Publications |
Who's Who in American Art, since 1973
Who's Who in America, Special Index Edition, 44th through 60th ed.
Female Artists of the American West: A Resource & Research Guide, Rutgers University
Artists of the American West, Doubleday
The Women Artists of the American West, 1850s-1970s , Kovinik
1997 A Vision of Silence: The Egg Tempera Landscapes of Doris Steider, Mary Carroll Nelson
1984 American Artists, An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1984 Masters of Western Art
1981 World Who's Who of Women
1980 Directory of Distinguished Americans
1977, '72 Two Thousand Women of Achievement
1975 Dictionary of International Biography
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Honors & Awards |
2008 Grand Canyon purchase award from 2008 Paint the Parks 100 National Annual Exhibition
2000 Distinguished Alumni Award, Purdue University
1989 First Prize, Painting, Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA
1983 National Invitational Award of Excellence, National League of American Pen Women
1977, '71 Governor's Purchase Award, New Mexico
1960, 1963-65 First Prize, Southwest Biennial, Museum of New Mexico
1959 Honorable Mention, Gilcrease Institute
'Doris Steider Street' named in her honor.
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Memberships |
National League of American Pen Women, 1961-1987
The Society of Layerists in Multi-Media, 1982-2006
American Academy of Women Artists, 1997-2006
Artists Equity, 1963-1985
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