Stephanie Deshpande Explained

Stephanie Deshpande
Birth Date:.[1]
Birth Place:United States
Nationality:American
Field:Realism

Stephanie Deshpande (born 1975)[2] is a contemporary American painter, best known for her portraits and narrative paintings. She currently lives in northern New Jersey.[3]

Education

Deshpande attended high school in Massachusetts, and completed a BFA with honors in painting at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1997. In 1996 she studied at the Ingbretson Studio in Framingham and was instructed in the Boston School method by Meg Mercier. She was awarded the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 1996. She continued her studies at the New York Academy of Art, earning her MFA in 1999. While attending NYAA, she studied under Vincent Desiderio and Steven Assael.[4] She is an instructor at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey[5] and at the Teaching Studios of Art on Long Island.[6]

Biography

Deshpande is involved in promoting recognition of women in the arts. From 2016-2018 she chaired the New Media Relations committee of the Portrait Society of America's Cecilia Beaux Forum.[7] Her articles about the importance of classical training in the arts have appeared in Artists on Art Magazine and on the Cecilia Beaux Forum blog. Her work has been included in several Women Painting Women gallery shows[8] [9] and in the Women Painting Women: In Earnest museum exhibition which traveled from the Clarksville-Montgomery County Museum in Tennessee to the J. Wayne Stark Galleries at Texas A&M University.[10]

Deshpande has received recognition for her paintings by the Portrait Society of America,[11] the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club,[12] the Art Renewal Center,[13] Allied Artists of America, and Oil Painters of America.[14] Her work has appeared in publications including Poets and Artists Magazine,[15] Fine Art Connoisseur,[16] [17] American Art Collector,[18] The Artist's Magazine,[19] Artists on Art, Artists Network,[20] Southwest Art,[21] and International Artist.[22] Her paintings have been shown nationally in juried and invitational exhibitions in New York,[12] New Jersey,[8] Florida,[23] South Carolina,[9] and California.[24] In 2019, her paintings were shown internationally at the MEAM in Barcelona, Spain as part of the Painting Today – International Women’s Day exhibition[25] . In 2021, she was also included in the exhibition, Women Painting (All Over the World), at the MEAM.[26] Her work is included in the permanent collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art and the Cynthia Graham Hurd St. Andrews Library in Charleston, South Carolina. She is represented by Haynes Galleries in the United States[27] and by Arundel Contemporary in West Sussex, England.[28]

Deshpande's work is included in The Peregrine Collection, "a time capsule to be archived on the moon via Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander. Launching 4th quarter 2021 on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket." [29] Her work appears in four issues of Poets Artists: Issue 100 Figurative Realism, Issue 68/ Goss 183 (2015) Devotion, Goss 183 (2018) Sight Unseen, and Goss 183 (2018) Miniatures.[30] The collection is part of the third payload called Annex 9. It contains art files of 800 creatives on a memory card with space reserved by Dr. Samuel Peralta.[31]

Art

Deshpande works in oil, painting figures, portraits, narratives, florals and still lifes. She often uses chiaroscuro to create a dramatic tone in her paintings.[19] Her work is inspired by John Singer Sargent, and deals with personal allegorical themes.Her depiction of female characters is realistic and focuses more on an internal dialog than on the external beauty of her subjects. Her themes often include playing cards, games, electricity, light/shadows, dolls, children, religion, and the dynamics between people.[32] In The Fall (2013), Deshpande explores darker themes inspired by life and dreams.[33] Using a predominantly warm palette and closely related values in The Fall was a choice Deshpande made to "up" the thematic intensity but also to establish the figure as having an equal part in the narrative as the child's toys. The young girl in the painting is Deshpande's daughter. It is an intimate scene Deshpande imagined one day in the car, but it is also slightly sinister, made all the more so by Deshpande's other inspiration for the painting—a nightmare in which she witnessed a child falling to the ground (that child is represented by Raggedy Andy).[19] [34]

In 2016, Deshpande was one of the nine artists, including Mario Robinson, Judy Takács, Laur Tilden, and Terry Strickland, who participated in the Emanuel Nine Portrait Project at Principle Gallery, honoring the victims of the Charleston church shooting. She painted the portrait of Myra Thompson, one of the nine victims.[35] In 2018, Deshpande was commissioned to paint a portrait of Cynthia Graham Hurd to be displayed permanently in the Cynthia Graham Hurd St. Andrews Library Branch in Charleston, South Carolina.[36] [37]

Awards

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stephanie Deshpande . Coppen. Maya. Arundel Art Room . 2015-02-25.
  2. Web site: Stephanie Deshpande . Coppen. Maya. Arundel Art Room . 2015-02-25.
  3. Rosenblum. Chris. Living Local: Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Images 2012. Centre Daily Times, Centredaily.com. July 1, 2012.
  4. Web site: Deshpande . Stephanie . The Search for Academic Training . Artistsonart.com . Randy Mellody . 17 March 2015.
  5. News: NEW! One-Day Realistic Portraits in Oil . www.augusoft.net . Augusoft, Inc. . 2018-06-23 . en.
  6. Web site: The Teaching Studios of Art . www.teachingstudios.com . The Teaching Studios of Art . 25 September 2015.
  7. Web site: Portrait Society of America, The Cecilia Beaux Forum . portraitsociety.org . Portrait Society of America . 15 January 2016.
  8. News: Women Painting Women . 28 September 2015 . Atlanticville . GMN News . 26 September 2013.
  9. Web site: Carlson . Jeffrey . Women Painting Women Juried Show in Charleston . www.fineartconnoisseur.com . Streamline Publishing, Inc. . 21 March 2015.
  10. News: Women Painting Women: In Earnest—A Traveling Museum Exhibition . 2018-06-23 . en.
  11. Web site: 2014 Members Only Competition Winners. The Portrait Society of America. 8 October 2015.
  12. Web site: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc.. clwac.org. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc.. 25 September 2015.
  13. Web site: Art Renewal Canter. www.artrenewal.org. Art Renewal Canter. 25 September 2015.
  14. Web site: OPA Online Showcase Competition Finalists (Summer 2014). www.opaonlineshowcase.com. Oil Painters of America. 25 September 2015.
  15. Maidman . Daniel . Devotion . PoetsArtists . November 1, 2015 .
    1. 68
    . 12–13 . 18 January 2016.
  16. News: Webster . Andrew . The New East . 7 October 2015 . Fine Art Today . Streamline Publishing, Inc. . October 2015.
  17. Web site: Carlson . Jeffrey . Women Painting Women Juried Show in Charleston . www.fineartconnoisseur.com . Streamline Publishing, Inc. . 28 September 2015.
  18. Web site: Upcoming Shows Online . upcomingshowsonline.com . American Art Collector . 7 October 2015.
  19. Graham . McKenzie . Portrait/Figure . The Artist's Magazine . December 2014 . 41.
  20. Web site: Haas . Cherie . Portrait/Figure Winners in the 2012 Annual Art Competition . Artistsnetwork . F+W . 18 January 2016.
  21. News: Artistic Excellence 2017 Honorable Mention: Stephanie Deshpande - Southwest Art Magazine . 2017-11-15 . Southwest Art Magazine . 2018-06-23 . en-US.
  22. Egnoski . Christine . June 2018 . Honoring Dedication to Their Craft . International Artist . June/July issue . 35–43.
  23. Web site: 24th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils . www.oilpaintersofamerica.com . Oil Painters of America . 1 March 2016.
  24. Web site: Punnoose . Rency . American Artists and the Allure of the East . www.schomburggallery.com . Schomburg Gallery . 1 March 2016.
  25. Web site: Editor. Logopress-. 2019-03-06. El MEAM reivindica el papel de la mujer en el arte figurativo contemporáneo. 2020-09-24. Revista de Arte - Logopress. es.
  26. Web site: Women Painting . www.meam.es . MEAM . 10 March 2021.
  27. Web site: Artist Biography . haynesgalleries.com . Haynes Galleries . 24 July 2017.
  28. Web site: Coppen . Maya . Stephanie Deshpande . Arundel Art Room . Arundel Art Room . 17 March 2015.
  29. Web site: Art: A Manifest for the Moon . www.peregrinecollection.com/ . Artists on the Moon . 14 March 2021.
  30. Web site: Manifest . www.peregrinecollection.com . Artists on the Moon TM . 14 March 2021.
  31. Web site: The Time Capsule . www.peregrinecollection.com . Artists on the Moon . 14 March 2021.
  32. Web site: Takács . Judy . Our Portraits Our Selves…The Youthful Doppelgänger . portraitsocietyceciliabeauxforum.blogspot.com . 11 January 2015 . Portrait Society of America . 28 September 2015.
  33. News: Rosenblum . Chris . Living Local: Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Images 2102 . 28 September 2015 . Centre Daily Times . centredaily.com . July 1, 2012.
  34. Bloomfield. Maureen. Portrait/Figure. The Artist's Magazine. December 2012. 60.
  35. News: Charleston portrait project pays tribute to Emanuel 9 . 10 June 2016 . counton2 . News2 . 2016 Media General Communications Holdings, LLC. . May 28, 2016.
  36. News: West Ashley Library honors Emanuel Nine victim Cynthia Graham Hurd with portrait. Lunsford. Erica. WCIV. 2018-06-23. en-US.
  37. Web site: St. Andrews Regional Library will unveil a portrait of Cynthia Hurd on Wed. June 20. Hardaway. Connelly. Charleston City Paper. 7 June 2018 . en. 2020-02-04.
  38. Web site: 2019 Awardees . www.oilpaintersofamerica.com . Oil Painters of America . 25 October 2019.
  39. Web site: 2018 ONLINE EXHIBITION FOR ASSOCIATES . www.alliedartistsofamerica.org . Allied Artists of America . 25 October 2019.
  40. Web site: Portrait Society of America. Portrait Society of America. en. 2018-06-23.
  41. Book: Allied Artists of America, Inc. 102nd Annual Exhibition. September 3, 2015. Typography and Printing: Commercial Printing Company. New Castle, PA. 17.
  42. Web site: RayMar Art Painting Competition 2014-2015 8th Annual Competition Winners. www.raymarartcontest.com. RayMar Art, Inc.. 18 February 2016.
  43. Web site: 2014 Non-Commissioned Winners. www.portraitsociety.org. The Portrait Society of America. 18 February 2016.
  44. Web site: 29th Annual Art Competition: Portrait Figure. www.artistsnetwork.com. F+W. 19 February 2016. p 60.
  45. Web site: Raymar Art Painting Competition Finalists (8th Annual Competition Month #3 - June 2014). www.raymarartcontest.com. RayMar Art, Inc.. 18 February 2016.
  46. Web site: Additional Awards. www.artrenewal.org. Art Renewal Center. 18 February 2016.
  47. Web site: Haas. Cherie. Portrait/Figure Winners in the 2012 Annual Art Competition. www.artistsnetwork.com. F+W. 18 February 2016.
  48. News: Rosenblum. Chris. Living Local: Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Images 2012. 18 February 2016. Centre Daily Times. centredaily.com. July 1, 2012.

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