“I started the Great Moments series in 2014 to take a break from sculpture, and just couldn’t quite quit painting. The paper mache painters simply represent my thoughts while doing the painting (and this seemed like a good way to learn how to paint).The project started with a Rothko, and the notion that one’s life work might have been accomplished one brilliant weekend with a roller. What if artwork really was, well…work, and paintings were done by painters? It had never occurred me, until I became involved in this project, to pretend to be someone else for a few days. It is a bit like a holiday, though I would recomend Matisse over van Gogh.”

Stephen Hansen

Born: 1950, Seattle, WA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

Ric Michel Fine Art, Southampton, NY
Museum of New Mexico, Governors Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces NM
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
Xanadu Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
London Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI
Gilman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Xochipilli Gallery, Birmingham., MI
Hibbard McGrath Gallery, Breckenridge, CO
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

Adams National Bank, Washington DC
AES, Washington, DC
Amalgamated Bank, Chicago, IL
Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Kansas City, MO
Borg-Warner, Chicago, IL
Canberra Industries, Inc., Meridian CT
Capitol Records, Las Angeles, CA
Checker Motors, Kalamazoo, MI
Continental Air Transport, Chicago, IL
First of America Bank, Kalamazoo, MI
Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Hechinger Company, Landover, MD
Herman Miller, Inc, Zeeland, MI
Hughes Aircraft, El Segundo, CA
Luss Kaplan & Associates, Ltd, New York, NY
Mark Twain Banks, St. Louis, MO
McDonald’s Corporation, Oakbrook, IL, Toronto
Pennsylvania Power and Light, Allentown, PA
SIT Group S.A., Luxembourg
Standard Oil of Indiana, Chicago,IL
Sterling Oil, Detroit, MI
Upjohn Pharmaceutical, Kalamazoo, MI
WDIV, Detroit, MI

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian, National Museum of American History
Capitol Arts Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC
Institute of Aesthetic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, MI
Musee Civilisation, Quebec
National Association of Homebuilders, Washington, DC
National Building Museum, Washington, DC
Town of Breckenridge, CO