The Red Feather Studio
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things” ~ Tom Waits
Recent Paintings
To Togo
2022
Watercolor and Oil on melamine
48” x 96”
A tribute to Ku Stevens’ great grandfather Frank Quinn.
“Paeans To The Maidu”
To Frank Day
~ Frank Day was a self taught Konkow painter who depicted stories and images from his memory of pre-contact California. A survivor of the Residential Schools program at The Greenville Mission School. I am a huge fan of his work so to show my appreciation I decided to offer a tribute. This is the first of my paintings in the series, “Paeans To The Maidu”.
2021
Oil on canvas
48” x 48”
To Nellie Johnson
2021
Oil on canvas
48” x 48”
The Songs of Herb Young
2022
Oil on canvas
48” x 48”
The Greenville Incident
“Paeans To The Maidu”
To Edith Buckskin
2022
Watercolor and oil on melamine
71” x 48”
To Kathrine Dick
2022
Watercolor and oil on melamine
36” x 48”
To Molly Lowry
2022
Watercolor and oil on melamine
48” x 36”
To Elweeza Coalstone
2022
Watercolor and oil on melamine
36” x 48”
To Rosa James
2022
Watercolor and oil on melamine
71” x 48”
These particular paintings are Paeans, songs of tribute, to five girls that ran away from the Greenville Mission School.
The paintings are nonobjective because music has no physical form. I am asking the viewer to contemplate rather than reason.
Gallery
Beckworth Pass
2021
Oil on melamine
48" X 48”
Ordinary Magic
2004
Oil on canvas
116” x 72”
Paradoxes and Possibilities
2005
Oil on canvas
76” x 144”
Elegance and Menace
2005
Oil on canvas
36” x 48”
Cooking With Quanta
2006
Oil on canvas
48" X 48”
The Proof is the Pudding
2005
Oil on canvas
60” x 48”
Award - 2011 California State Fair - Fine Art Exhibit
Award of Merit
Special Award - University Art Award
Juror’s Statement: “I chose this work because of its subtle tonal
variations and its aggressive application of paint.
It has an energetic quality which generates
an atmosphere of expression and emotion.” Juror: Suzanne Adan
After the Fall
2005
Oil on canvas
60” x 47.75”
From The Medical Journal of Dr. M Violet
2014
Oil on board
?” x ?”
Welcome to the Dance
2018
Oil on board
36” x 48”
They Feed On Gods
2004
Oil on canvas
38.5 x 53
An Invitation To See
2004
Oil on canvas
36” x 48”
Sans Metaphor
2005
Oil on canvas
72” x 48”
Birdland Breakdown 2
2004
Oil on canvas
65” x 113”
Collected Works
Perhaps They Are Leaving The Village
2001
Watercolor on board
36” x 30”
The Anxiety of Influence
Model Four
Anisoptera
Mars Hotel
Melamine Composition #2
Grandfather
Stray Toasters
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Birdland Breakdown
2004 Oil on canvas 113” x 65”
I Am Your Chief
A collaboration with Patricia Mills
Currently on view at
University of Nevada Reno
Multicultural Conference Center
I Am Your Chief
Michael Rowden -Deportola
Pat Mills
Opening
Detail - signatures
2013 California State Fair - Fine Art Exhibit
Golden Bear Juror’s Award
Juror’s Statement: “When I first walked into the exhibition hall on the day when we were called in to make our final selection of the show, I Am Your Chief was standing against the wall along with the rest of the many other paintings. I had an impulse to walk across the room to see this painting immediately. When I stood in front of it, the painting started speaking to me. There was a story that connects to a history, a culture and a place. My excitement of seeing its texture, the colors and the brushwork that it brings me back to the present; the richness of imageries confronts me but it allows me to think and to breath; the darkness in the space allows me to hide and to seek; the directional movements of the white dots guide me back to the right way from each twist and bend in between paths. This work was a collaborative effort by two individual hands and minds, yet, their final work is a seamless whole..”
Juror: Brenda Louie