Artist Brandon Steen paints highly detailed landscapes on wood panels. Drawn not to just the mundane, his interest lies in the beauty within it. A humble landscape painter, his painting subject always speaks to him and is caught with his keen eye. Steen’s interest is founded in structures and how they relate to its surroundings and the visible evidence of the structure having stood witness to time unfold around it.
Brandon has had many bull terrier companions over the years beginning with Clancy. He attributes his life to his childhood dog Tiger who pulled him out of the marsh from drowning behind his childhood beach house on Lake Erie. The bull terrier has become his muse, joining him in the studio while working on hundreds of paintings. The artist’s current dogs are painted into compositions creating both dialogue and tension. Birds are also depicted into his art, as a child Brandon observed the thousands of migrating birds making there way through Canada’s most southern point.
Painting for several decades, Brandon began painting pop surrealism showing in group and solo shows throughout North America and Internationally. During this time two characters came to him in a dream, Abe Weiner and Happy the bull terrier. They have been with him ever since, being painted like Easter eggs into his compositions. Be sure to look for them while viewing his paintings.
Born in 1970 in the small town of Leamington, Ontario. For nearly a decade Steen’s paintings have become highly sought after as a Canadian artist. Paintings have been placed in private and corporate collections and he has shown in both solo and group shows. He lives and works from his barn studio in the Eastern Northumberland Hills of Ontario with his artist wife Janie and their English bull terriers Dolores and Paddy.
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– Interview with the Toronto Guardian November 2022
– Breakfast Television live interview March 17th, 2022
– Breakfast Television live interview March 3rd, 2022
– “Someone is creating gorgeous paintings of popular Toronto locations and they’re selling out”
– “‘Skyline Diner’ painting brings us remembrance of meals past”
– “Catching Toronto’s famed streetcar…before it’s gone for good”
– “Brandon Steen – Waking Up” in The Artist and The Viewer – Toronto Art Newspaper
2023 June RGB - LOOK UP at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2022 October HISTORY STEEN at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2022 March GORTA MOR at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2021 September GHOST TOWN at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2020 September BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2020 April BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON - postponed due to COVID-19
2020 October TORONTO SAINTS at the Evergreen Brick Works presented by the
Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2019 April WAKING UP at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2018 April TODAY/YESTERDAY at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2017 November VANISHED at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2017 June AMBULATE at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2008 November GUNKY GAVE ME CASH at the MModern Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2006 October BUMP at the Compound Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 October GHOULS, GOBLINS, GHOSTS & GOURDS at the AWOL Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 December - FLECK FINE ART, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2020 December- FLECK FINE ART, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2019 December - FLECK FINE ART, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2018 December - FLECK FINE ART, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2018 April - FLECK FINE ART, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2017 December - FLECK FINE ART, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto ON
2013 July - NORTHERN LIGHTS, Rotofugi Gallery, Chicago IL
2009 March - EVERYTHING BUT THE KITSCH’N SYNC, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2008 December - M MODERN ART BASEL, M Modern Gallery, Miami FLA
2008 May/June - THE TIKI ART SHOW, M Modern Gallery, Palm Springs CA
2008 February - ABSTRACTION/DISTRACTION, M Modern Gallery, Palm Springs CA
2008 March - EVERYTHING BUT THE KITSCH’N SYNC, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2008 January - UNDER THE INFLUENCE - TRIBUTE TO STAN LEE, Gallery88, Los Angeles CA
2007 August/September - PERVASIVE ART NORTH, La Petit Mort Gallery, Ottawa ON
2007 March - PICKS OF THE HARVEST, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007 March - EVERYTHING BUT THE KITSCH’N SYNC, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2006 March - EVERYTHING BUT THE KITSCH’N SYNC, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2006 February - THE DECK SHOW, Knoxville Museum of Fine Art, Knoxville TN