Steven Nesheim

medium: painting

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Confession 2011 Painting	Forgiveness 2011 Painting	Memory Field 2011 Painting
Secret Door 2009 Painting	Trepidation 2011 Painting

Contact information
90845 Peterson Hill Rd
Bayfield, WI 54814
Email Address: stevenesheim@hotmail.com
Web site: www.mnartists.org/Steven_Nesheim

Artist statement
Inspired by research as a fellow at the Yale Divinity School, Steven Nesheim developed a personal vision for how symbols create points of contact for our minds and spirit. Teaching captured his imagination and the phenomenon of learning, from which he designed a method of teaching which engages thinking skills, art and symbols. Currently, Steven is creating a series of paintings based on 1940s educational flash cards and contemporary newspaper images. Juxtaposing these with each other transcends their original meanings to become expressions of a child-felt, adult world of persuasion and memory, suggesting rites of passage. He is also working on a series of flash cards symbolizing 57 essential chapters of the Bible. His landscape paintings are extensions of a concept involving our fields of vision, fields of memory and places where our souls may reside.

Biography
Steven Nesheim is a Bayfield artist and teacher whose career spans over 30 years in the U.S. and Asia. He began painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and continued to work in that medium while teaching in Iowa, Connecticut, Minnesota and Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, he helped to establish an outreach ministry to artists and opened a Christian art center, focusing on the identification and support of artists in Vietnamese refugee camps. Currently, Steven is a member of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA), Chequamegon Bay Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board, as a roster artist; is co-founder of the outreach ministry artREACH, co-curator of the Art of Passage Gallery, and an active participant in the Door2Hope ministry. A sample of his work is available at the Grand Hand Gallery in St. Paul, Minn.