Steven Shearer : sleep, death's own brother

Addressing nearly twenty-years of work to-date, in painting, drawing, printmaking, assemblage, and poetry, Canadian artist Steven Shearer touches on such diverse themes as ancient civilization, allegory, modernism, and popular music, along with the alienation of youth cultures. Although Shearer never paints directly from life, life - in all its complexity - is implicit in each canvas, seamlessly rendering an authentic twenty-first-century practice, while drawing on the traditions of classical and modern subjects. Shearer’s non-hierarchical exploration of the ways in which we see others and the world around us is a profound contributor to the dialogue of this century.