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Prof. Steen is a multi-degreed Independent Art Historian
(full 66 page Resume on request) working on the paintings
of the Seventeenth Century Dutch master and ancestor, Jan
Steen. He is a specialist and conducts classes on
Seventeenth Century Dutch painting as well as Nineteenth
Century French and Twentieth Century painting, drawing,
sculpture, architecture, photography, graphics and
cinema. Most of his research is conducted at The Getty
Research Institute. He is also an art and museum
educator, critic, curator, former museum director, and
former instructor of art history at California State
University at Fullerton, U.C.L.A. Extension and has been
an adjunct lecturer for the J. Paul Getty Museum
Education Department. He has conducted art
history lectures, classes and tours in Southern
California and art study trips to Northern California,
New York, Chicago, and Europe, including France, Holland,
and Italy. He conducts four private art history study
classes in the spring and fall and a contemporary art
salon on Southern California art in the summer of each
year as part of Steen Art Study (see About
Steen Art Study section). He has lectured in all major
Southern California museums as well as national and
international museums. In 1982, Prof. Steen received the "Outstanding
Achievement in Museum Education Award,"
from the Museum Educators of Southern California
organization and in 1997 he received the "Founding
President 1979-1982 Award" from the same
organization. Currently he is documenting Post
Modernism: Supra-Naturalism in the work of
Southern California painters and sculptors. This is a
realist and figurative movement on the west coast,
specifically abundant in Southern California, San
Francisco, Seattle and San Diego, and in that order of
prominence. Some of the movements characteristics are
realism, figuration, still-life, landscape, high
craftsmanship of drawing, painting, sculpture, execution,
as well as the elevation of contemporary late twentieth
century and early twenty-first century philosophical
issues relating to moral, ethical and spiritual themes. Prof. Steen is also Curator of Exhibitions and Director of Programming and Education at The Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art at Judson Studios, Los Angeles, since April 2000. See www.JudsonStudios.com |
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