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Stephen Magsig



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Stephen Magsig, May 22 - June 18, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2009
Stephen Magsig, April 28 - May 23, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Stephen Magsig, May 10 - June 4, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

2003
Stephen Magsig, March 4 - March 29, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

2001
Stephen Magsig, City Views, June 26 - July 13, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

2001
Stephen Magsig, Views of New York, March 3 - April 27, Manhattan Athletic Club, New York, NY

Stephen Magsig,Urban Landscapes, Lemberg Gallery, Birminghan, Mi

1998
Stephen Magsig, Street Scenes, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, Mi

1997
Stephen Magsig, Ten Year Retrospective Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland Univ., Rochester, Mi

Stephen Magsig, Urban Landscapes,Paintings of New York, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY

Stephen Magsig, Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA

1996
Stephen Magsig, Images of New York, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY

1995
Stephen Magsig, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1992
Stephen Magsig, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1990
Stephen Magsig, Young & Rubicam, Detroit, MI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Summer Group Show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

Architecture and Industrial Realism, Washington County Museum, Washington, DC

2009
Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

Stephen Magsig, George Billis Gallery/Manhattan Athletic Club, NYC

Michigan Masters Invitational,Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

The Grand Bazaar, Benefit for Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit,Detroit,MI

Large Medium Small, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2008
City Lights, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2007
Rocky Mountain Invitational, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY

In the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

Driven: Art from the Motor City, Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock,MI

AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY

Good Night Sun, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

 Pop Realism, George Billis Gallery LA, Culver City, CA
2006
Carl Schlosberg, Los Angeles, CA

In the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

The Pavilion, New York, NY

Fort Wayne Museum of Art 2006 Biennial, Fort Wayne, IN

Landscapes, Real & Imagined, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

 Local Color: Contemporary Realism, Downriver Council for the Arts, Taylor, MI
 Wish You Were Here, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI

  Art Works for Life, Dearborn, MI
2004
Affordable Art Fair, New York, New York

Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI

Carl Schlosberg, Los Angeles, CA

Inaugural Exhibition, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA

Industrial Beauty, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

 New NYC Artists, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Actual Size Biennial, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI

Alumni Art Auction, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Art New York, New York, NY

Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI

Inaugural Exhibition, A &C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI

The Selecti Show, Detroit Artist Market

Member's Invitational, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

Urban Landscapes, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2002
Palm Springs International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA

The 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA
2001
Arts Works for Life, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
A Survey of Sculpture: Antiquities to Contemporary, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks,CA
Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Views from the Landscape, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
2000
Manhattan Contrasts, New York Historical Society, NY

Urban Aesthetics, Stephen Magsig and David FeBland, Bender Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

Polk Art Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI

Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY

Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary Gallery, Detroit, MI

Views from the Landscape, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI

1999
New NY Views, Recent Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, NY

Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY

1998
New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Painting, The Gallery, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI

1997
Douglas Bulks, Susan Logan, Stephen Magsig: Images of the city, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1996
Willis Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI

Works for Young Collectors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1995
Small Works, Juried Exhibition, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY

Land, Group Exhibition, Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 84, New York, NY

Works for Young Collectors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

In, On, and Around the Box, Third Annual Benefit Exhibition, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI

1994
The Detroit Show: Objects For and About Detroit, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI

New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Bitmingham, MI

Sketchbooks, Group Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

1993
Works for Young Collctors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Friends for Focus, Benefit Group Exhibition, Detroit Focus Gallery at ARTPACK, Farmington Hills, MI

Group Show, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

New Work, Group Exhibition, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1992
Jef Borgeau and Stephen Magsig, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Drawings, Wayne State University Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI

Images Unfold: Contemporary Screens, Detroit Artists Market at Troy Place, Troy, MI

Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images Part II, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

1991
Eye for Art II, Group Exhibition, The Detroit Insitute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1990
Five-Person Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI



SELECTED AWARDS

2000
Polk Competition Purchase Award



EDUCATION

1985
Center for Creative Studies - College of Art and Design, Detroit, MI
1974
Associate of Arts, Ferris State College, Big Rapids, MI


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007
Gail Leggio, Stephen Magsig, Exibitions, American Arts Quarterly Winter 2007,  pp. 59-61

2006
Rose, Joshua, Stephen Magsig, Collectors will respond to nostalgic glimpses of Los Angeles. American Art Collector, June, pp. 150-153

2004
Guten Cohen, Keri, Painter Stephen Magsig lightens up, The Detroit Free Press,Sunday, May 2

2003
Mannisto, Glen, Intimate Vistas; Landscapes are cityscapes in the show at Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Detroit Metro Times, Feb. 19, p. 22-23

2002
Cohen, Keri, Ferndale Artist Stephen Magsig Gains National Attention For His Paintings, WhichCapture The Beauty and Soul of The Urban Landscape, April 26, pp 1E, 12E.

2001
Sefton, Barbara Wylan, Emerging Artist, Art & Antiques, October, pp.58-60.

2000
Wing, Diana, Art and technology merge in this competition, The Mirror Newspapers, Detroit, May 18

1998
Carducci, Vincent, Magsig's Detroit, Trait, Introductory Issue

Hoover, Barbara, GM on canvas, Detroit News, Sept. 17

Crawford, Lynn, Posed Structures, Metro Times, Detroit, Apr. 15

People making the news, Detroit Free Press, Apr.7

Provenzano, Frank, Revealing the lasting presence behind a neglected urban landscape, The Eccentric Birmingham, MI, Apr. 5

Keri Gutan-Cohen, Painter lets urban architecture tell his story, Detroit Free Press, Jan. 4

1997
Henry, Gerrit, Stephen Magsig at Chuck Levitan, Art in America, Oct.

Colby, Joy Hakanson, Artists paint Detroit in romantic colors, The Detroit News, June 19

Galleries, New York Observer, New York, NY, May 12

Dellolio, Peter, Stephen Magsig, NY Arts Magazine, Issue No. 10, May

Kampel, Traci, Down-to-earth Midwesterner captures the 'real' Soho, The Villager, New York, NY, Apr.16

1996
Miro, Marsha, Young Collectors Favor Older Artists at Lemberg Show, The Sunday Journal, Detroit, MI, Jan. 28

Colby, Joy Hakanson, Young Collectors, The Detroit News, Jan.18

1995
Mannisto, Glenn, The Year in Review '95: Fine Arts Live, Metro Times, Detroit, Dec.20

Colby, Joy Hakanson, Earthy theme show lands a top cast of artists, The Detroit News, July7

Miro, Marsha, Paintings: Magsig's Element is the City, Detroit Free Press, Apr.24

1994
Miro, Marsha, Motor City Muse, Detroit Free Press, June 10

1992
Eckstrom,Kevin, Detroit Letters, Contemporanea, No. 23, Dec.



SELECTED COLLECTIONS

    Ameritech, Detroit, MI

    Colorforms Incorporated, Detroit, MI

    Conway, MacKenzie and Dunleavy, Birmingham, MI

    The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

    Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Detroit, MI

    General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI

    The Museum of the City of New York, NY

    New York Historical Society, NY

    Polk Company, Southfield, MI

    Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC, Detroit, MI

    Ross Roy Advertising, Bloomfield Hills, MI

    The Skyline Club, Southfield, MI

    United States Embassy, Norway




2005
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City, NY

Summer Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

  Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI

Represented by The George Billis Gallery
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