Additional Images

Provenance:

Grace Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Note:

STEVE MENNIE (1945 - )

“In a time where we all seem to be involved in relentless and near-hysterical “doing” I think of my artistic practice in terms of Heidegger’s “being-in-the-world” and the resulting works as, to quote Mark Kingwell, “slabs of existence”. These slabs are not pieces of equipment subordinate to the concept of “usefulness” but are instead openings or spaces in which we are called to remember what it means to be.”

- Steve Mennie -

Steve Mennie was born in 1945 in Revelstoke, British Columbia, and graduated in 1968 from the Ontario College of Art, in Toronto, Ontario. He worked as a freelance illustrator in Toronto for two years before retuning to BC in 1970. Mennie has worked in various media, including hand-pulled silkscreen, acrylic, oil and watercolor. He has exhibited since the 1970’s both nationally and internationally and his works are part of major corporate and public collections across Canada. In addition, Mennie has been commissioned twice by Canada Post to design commemorative postage stamps.

Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections

BC Lottery Corporation
BC Telephone
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
Claridge Collection, Montreal, QC
Connor Clarke and Company, Toronto, ON
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Ernst and Young, Toronto, ON
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
Prestige Inns, Salmon Arm, BC
Westin Hotels, Whistler, BC
Weyerhauser Canada Ltd.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011 Mechanics of Art, SAGA Public Art Gallery, Salmon Arm, BC
2000 Recent Work Porch Furniture Series John Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1999 Recent Work, John Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
Domestic Exotica, Vernon Art Gallery, Vernon, BC
1998 Salmon Arm Art Gallery, Salmon Arm, BC
New Paintings, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
1997 Isolated Incidence, Oasis Gallery, Kamloops, BC
Fish Princess, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
1996 Langham Cultural Centre, Kaslo, BC
1995 Following Directions, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, B
1994 Following Directions, Centre d'Exposition du Vieux Palais, St. Jerome, QC
1993 Following Directions, Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College, New Westminster, BC
Following Direction, Smash Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1992 Following Direction, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
1987 Grace Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1986 Bonnie Kagan Gallery,Toronto, ON
1984 Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
1983 Graffiti Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1980 Hett Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1979 Devooght Galleries, Vancouver, BC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 Jen Dyck & Steve Mennie, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
Winter Salon 2013: Selected Works and Beyond, Chazou Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2012 The Gaze of History, Burnaby Art Gallery, BC
2011 Okanagan Eyes Okanagan Wise Okanagan-ise, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
2001 Co-Incidence, Salmon Arm Art Gallery, Salmon Arm BC
1999 The Future Ain't What It Used to Be: The Victoria School Exhibition Project, Edmonton Art Gallery, AB
1998 Hockey Night in Canada, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC
1996 The Grass Menagerie, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
1993 Visible Language, New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
1991 Little Picture Show, Oasis Gallery, Kamloops BC
1988 Anniversary Show, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, Kamloops BC
A Fish Story, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
1980 Stolen Moments, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2nd Biannual Canadian Print and Drawing Council
1979 Kids and Cows, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC

Selected Commissions and Awards

1990 Received Explorations Grant from Canada Council
1974 Commissioned by Canada Post to design series of postage stamps commemorating the 100th Anniversary of postal service in Canada
1973 Commissioned by Canada Post to design postage stamps commemorating the 100th Anniversary of birth of Nellie McClung
1970 Awards of merit from Toronto/Montreal Art Directors Club


Selected Links

Steve Mennie Video on The Mechanics of Abstraction