“I view my work as a distinctly personal journey of discovery. My studio is a laboratory where I can pull together a host of disparate things - field sketches, photos, memories, imagination, and even a bit of science in the form of color theory and compositional geometry. These things all blend together in my exploration of an idea. When the process works it creates a canvas that contains an evocative glimpse beyond the surface of subject and artist and into the essential character of both.” - Stephen C. Datz
Stephen C. Datz - Southwest Sojourns
Stephen C. Datz One Man Show - Canyon, Buttes, and Beyond
New Perspectives • The Landscapes of Stephen Datz
Landscape Painter Stephen Datz - Desert Notes exhibit at Medicine Man Gallery of 20 small works
Western Art Collector January 2022
Published online courtesy Western Art Collector, January 2021
Courtesy Western Art Collector Magazine January 2020
Courtesy Western Art Collector, November 2017
This podcast is about a show he had worked on for several years in the Grand Tetons. It was a prestigious plein-air show that he had helped start. Well, the show was canceled suddenly in 2019 and Stephen didn't get closure with this body of work. He wanted to show all these paintings, and enhance some of the ones he really hadn't finished yet. So he spent the time and energy to not only finish the paintings but to write an article about each one and then put it in book form.
Steve Datz's second visit to the Art Dealer Diaries; on this special episode we discuss what it takes to be an artist and pull off a major art exhibit. This time around, Stephen and Mark go in-depth about the lifestyle of the modern landscape painter. We hear about the choices that have to be made beyond the canvas to have a successful exhibition in a southwest gallery setting, and how being a "precisionist" can both help and hinder your art career.
Landscape artist Stephen Datz discusses his life story of growing up in Colorado and his struggles to become an artist, the son of a philatelic dealer. Stephen explains his path of becoming an artist first in plein air art before turning his art style into a more modern aesthetic.