Steven Rhude - Paintings/Drawings

I'm pleased to announce my new representation in St. John's Newfoundland with the Emma Butler Gallery. Please check out the gallery on line. http://www.emmabutler.com/ Battery Shed on a Road,  oil on canvas, 32"x 42", Emma Butler Gallery Red Boat, Ochre Pit Cove, oil on canvas, 29.5"x38", Emma Butler Gallery Buoys on the Edge of Burnt Point, oil on canvas, 38"x50", Steven Rhude Cantwell's Fence, Cape Spear Primary, oil on canvas, 38"x59", Steven Rhude Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS.

Last Dogs Hung, oil on canvas, 34"x48", Steven Rhude                           Intervention Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, September 14th to October 2nd Opening: Friday, September 14th - 7pm.  1559 Barrington Street, Halifax. tel. 902.425.9456  Resistance - Last Dogs Hung Contemporary Realist Painting continues to evolve largely outside of the mainstream  establishment. Although championed by independent artists and galleries, a new generation of  Realist painters have been largely ignored by an artistic management intent on blurring the boundary between art and life - what T.S. Elliot referred to as “the dissociation of sensibility”. Today  (with a few exceptions), humanism and emotion combined with the innovation required to carry  out the creation of a Realist painting, have generally been overlooked. Possibly because of an art  establishment more concerned with their own shifting hagiography and the elevation of  spectacle. As a painter, I have noted in the p