Emma Butler Gallery
111 GEORGE ST WEST | ST. JOHN'S NL | CANADA | A1C 6K2 | 709 739-7111 | emmabutlergallery@nl.rogers.com


Historical Works
Anne Meredith Barry RCA
Anthony Barton
David Blackwood RCA
Grant Boland
Patrick Canning
Ting Ting Chen
Alistair Drysdale
Lori Doody
Yevhenii Fedorenko
Jean Claude Girardin
George Horan
Kathleen Knowling
Jessica Levman
John McDonald
Robert Mellin RCA
Shawn O'Hagan
Susan Paterson
Barbara Pratt
Christopher Pratt RCA
Mary Pratt RCA
Steven Rhude
Bill Rose
Jean-Claude Roy
Olaf Schneider
Dave Sheppard
Wally Shishkov
Lotti Thomas
Krista van Nostrand
Darren Whalen
Michael Young

Steven Rhude

Steven Rhude has steadily pursued his vision of vernacular imagery with an imposing strategy. Set in unconventional situations, he employs familiar coastal icons like sheds and boats that help Steven elbow his way into the viewers mental space. Although based on real places, Rhude considers the settings in his paintings as ficticious - intended to evoke a cultural or social perspective. Aided by his use of realism and the modernist canon, Rhude's imagery can leave one wondering what the protagonist's strengths really are and whether the objects and subjects viewed have more than just utilitarian characteristics.

Steven Rhude was born in Rouyn Noranda, Quebec in 1959. His father was a Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot and traveled extensively throughout Canada before settling his family in Scarborough,Ontario. Steven attended the Ontario College of Art and Design inToronto where he studied fine arts and graduated in 1983 with honors in drawing and painting.

Steven also attended the colleges off campus program in Florence, Italy for one year which included an intensive study of the Italian and Northern European renaissance. This year of study was made possible by receiving the Elisabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. A recent survey of his work was held at Acadia University in Wolfville, the town where Steven lives and works today. Steven's work can be found in numerous private, public, and corporate collections.