Steve Paddack
A graduate of the Herron School of Art and Design and the University of Illinois, Steve Paddack was part of the first wave of Massachusetts Avenue artists that helped breathe life into the nascent downtown cultural awakening in Indianapolis in the 1980s and 90s.
After many years of making large expressive paintings with oils and house paints, Steve turned to acrylics in the mid 2000s and has more recently been working at a very small scale. He has developed a visual vocabulary that frequently employs mundane images in such a way as to render them iconic. By altering the familiar visual context usually associated with everyday things, objects such as covered bridges and discarded carpet rolls become suffused with symbolic or poetic possibilities.
'In the Boundary Water', Acrylic on panel, 6" x 6" framed, $1400
'The New Year', Acrylic on panel, 6" x 6" framed, $1400
'The Offshoring', Acrylic on panel, 6" x 6" framed, $1400
'Personal Island 2', Acrylic on panel, 6" x 6", framed, SOLD
'Personal Island 6', Acrylic on panel, 6" x 6" framed, $1400
'Brazil, IN', Acrylic on panel, Unframed with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4", $1200
'Flying Past Remington on a Summer Evening', Acrylic on panel, 4" x 4" unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 8" Diptych, $1800
'Late Afternoon in Whiteland', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame , 4" x 4", $1200
'Pleasant Prairie', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4", $1200
'Beloved Tower at New Point', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4"
'LaGrange, Illinois', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4"
'Passing Through Shelbyville', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4"
'Wisconsonia', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4", SOLD
'Left. Bottom. Corner. Fleeting. Tower', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4", $1200
'Morton Grove", Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4", $1200
'Peru', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4", $1200
'State Rd 135 and Main St.', Acrylic on panel, Unframed, with a wooden backing support frame, 4" x 4", $1200