|
ALAN STEIN CSPWC, SCA, OSA
41 Church Street, Parry Sound, Ont. P2A 1Y6
(705) 746-4199 - alanstein@cogeco.ca - www.alanstein.ca
Education
1970-74 Fine Arts, Humber College, New School of Art, Toronto.
1976 Burleighfield School Great Britain, studied with Patrick Reyntiens,
Studio Experience
1977-87 Personal glass studio, Toronto
1984-87 Head designer The Glass Studio
1987 Established The Church Street Press, painting studio, Parry Sound
Teaching
1973-85 Humber College, Sheridan College, Toronto Board of Education Ontario College of Art
Grants
1993 Reflections Grant, Ont. Ministry of Culture and Communication
1976 Ontario Arts Council; study grant
1993 Individual visual arts grant
1999 OAC Fine Crafts grant
1994, 2001, 2005 Exhibition assistance grants,
2001 OAC Special Project grant, “Ink Paper Lead…”
2006 Canada Council: Travel Grant, Leipzig, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 Quiet Snow, Amsterdam Canals Roberts Gallery Toronto
2011 Reefs:Water:Rocks Bohemia, Barrie, Ontario
2010 Alan Stein TheLodge on Amherst Island
2009 Georgian Bay, Petrushka, Further Explorations, Roberts Gallery, Tor.
2007 Venice – Georgian Bay Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2007 Place, Reflections on Venice and Georgian Bay Station Gallery, Parry Sound
2005 Into the Night Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2004 In Town – On the Bay Station Gallery, Parry Sound
2003 New Work pastels on paper Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2001 Paris Day & Night Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2000-01 Home Country, Parry Sound Museum, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville
1997-98 In Mexico, Toronto Reference Library, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas Grimsby Public Art Gallery
1995 Inner Islands-Outer Islands WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Art Gallery of Windsor, Ont. BookFest 2010, show travels to Berlin
2011 OSA annual open exhibition Juror
2000-11 Annual Sketches and contemporary artists exhibits, Roberts Gallery
2010 Beyond Words Carnegie Gallery Dundas Ont.
2010 Breadth 2010, Arts & Letters Club members Roberts Gallery, juried
2010 85th Anniversary of CSPWC Arts & Letters Club, curated B. Mitchell
2010 Sense of Place G7 Summit Centre Huntsville Ont.
2010 Scandanavian Suite, live performance projections - Festival of the Sound
2009 Poetry Broadsides TD Gallery, Toronto Reference Library
2009 Petrushka, live performance projections Festival of the Sound 2009 Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada,
Juror
National and International venues, touring
2009 Ex Libris MacLaren Art Gallery, Barrie
2008 100 Years of Art at the Arts & Letters Club Varley Art Gallery, Ontario
2008-09 Art of the Book ‘08 National touring exhibition
2008 Vseradice International Artists Symposium, Czech Republic
2006 Stifung Buchkunst Frankfurt, Leipzig, Germany
2005-10 Impressions of Massasauga Park, C.W. Stockey Centre, Parry Sound
2005 Beyond the Book Grimsby Public Art Gallery
2004-05 Alcuin Society, Exhibition of Excellence in Book Design in Canada Emily Carr Institute of Design. WAC Bennett Library, Simon
Fraser University, Redpath Library, McGill. University of Alberta. Design Exchange, Toronto. Memorial Library. Acadia
University. Third Prize
2003-04 Art of the Book ’03 York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Organized by CBBAG, National touring exhibit, Juror
2002-10 Painted Sound Charles W. Stockey Centre
2002-03 Ink Paper Lead, Board Leather Thread Touring exhibition Canada Trust Gallery, Toronto Reference Library, W.D. Jordan
Special Collections Library, Queens University Kingston. Gallery Stratford, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
2001-05 Drawing John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2001 The Eye and The Hand Etobicoke Civic Art Gallery First Prize
2001-02 Alcuin Society, Exhibition of Excellence in Book Design in Canada Vancouver Craft Museum, Acadia University, Emily Carr
Institute of Design, Redpath Library, McGill First prize
2001 The Book an Evolution in Meaning. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
2000-02 SCA Open Juried Exhibition John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2001 The Library Project University of Manitoba
Touring
2000 A Brush With History, 75th Anniversary Exhibit CSPWC Art Gallery of Mississauga
2000 Arts 2000, RCA juried exhibit, Gallery Stratford
1999 If you go down in the woods today… Works by members of the North American Wood Engravers Network Line Gallery,
Scotland
1998 Artist Members Exhibition of Contemporary Bookworks Centre for Book Arts, NYC. Connecticut University, USA
1998-99 Art of the Book ’98 National touring exhibit Organized by CBBAG, Fine Printing Award
1995-97 Fine Printing: the Private Press in Canada National touring exhibit, opening Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library
1993-05 Open Water annual CSPWC John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto (juried)
Hand Printed Limited Edition Artist Books
2009
The Golden Lilies, Eight new glosas by P.K. Page, edition 50, 10 wood- engravings. dedication and launch ‘PK Page - Irwin
Room’, Trent University
2007
In Venice, compiled by Alan Stein. edition 15, 5 stone lithographs, 32 pages
2005
In Smoke, Ten Variations on Eugenio Montale, by Gary Michael Dault, edition 80, 4 wood engravings, 38 pages
2001
Say the Names, by Al Purdy. edition 5, 1 wood engraving 6 pages
2000
Home Country, by Al Purdy. edition 105, 13 wood engravings 101 pages. o/p
1998
Towards the Open, Georgian Bay Poems, by Douglas LePan edition 75, 10 wood engravings, 62 pages, o/p
1996
In Mexico, by Al Purdy. edition 50, 10 wood engravings, 80 pages, o/p
1994
Islands, compiled by Alan Stein. edition 50, 17 wood engravings 40 pages, o/p
Memberships
Canadian Book Binders and Book Artists Guild. Centre for Book Arts, NYC
Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, past director
Society of Canadian Artists. Ontario Society of Artists.
Wood Engravers Network of North America. Festival of the Sound, past president Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, fine arts committee
Selected Collections
Canada: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Massey College and Victoria Library,
University of Toronto; Toronto Reference Library; McGill Univ. Library Rare Book Collection. Redpath Collection, Montreal; MacKimmie Library, Univ. of Calgary; Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, Univ. of Alberta; libraries at UBC; Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University, B.C. National Library of Canada, Redpath Collection, Grimsby Public Art Gallery. Government of Ontario Art Collection. Four Seasons Hotels, Irving Oil
USA: New York City Public Library, Rare Book Dept.; Wellesley College Library, NY.
International: National Library of Ireland; National Library of New Zealand, Book and Type Museum, Leipzig. National Library of Germany. Vseradice, Czech Republic. Meermanno Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
Publications
Lori Steiner, Arabella, Canadian Art, Architecture, Design magazine Fall 2011
Gryski, Chester Wayzgoose, Amphora, Alcuin Society #155 July 2010
Smart, Thomas Dreaming of Dorsets, Saint John Telegraph Journal 2010
Stein, Alan Amphora #147, “Alphabet Stories” Herman Zapf 2007
Fraser, Lynn Canadian Bookseller magazine 2006
Arseneau, Laura Beyond the Book 2005
Dault, Gary Michael, Globe & Mail ‘At the Galleries’ review 2003
Donelly, Judy Devils Artisan #52 2003
Ink Paper Lead, Board Leather Thread, catalogue Coach House Press 2002
Lichen, Spring 2001
Govier, Katherine, Devil’s Artisan 2001
Purdy, Al. “The 30,000 Islands of Georgian Bay”. Imperial Oil Review 1999
Queens Quarterly, volume 103, #2 1999
Upcoming Exhibitions, Events
Festival of the Sound, exhibition, brochure cover, Parry Sound July, 2011
Represented in Canada by;
Roberts Gallery Toronto, www.robertsgallery.net
Masters Gallery, Calgary, www.mastersgalleryltd.com
|
