Moving Landscapes II: Steve Kean | Contact Photo Festival | Project Gallery Exhibition
9 May - 7 June 2025
  • Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #4, ed. of 7, 2024 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #5, ed. of 7, 2024 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Steve Kean, Lonely Road, ed. of 25, 2024 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Steve Kean, Pastoral River (2025 edit), ed. of 7, 2025 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #1 , ed. of 7, 2024 (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #4, 2024

  • Exhibition Statement

    The images in this exhibition reflect on the energy states of the landscape: from serene to highly kinetic. Taken over the course of the artist's multiple transits on Canada’s highways and byways, these images were all created by harnessing his movement through the land on trains and buses. Intended to portray the ethereal feeling of being in-between dream states of not-quite-asleep-not-quite awake, Kean's images blur reality just enough to allow us to contemplate our place within nature. The exhibition posits a question about our place in a fast-paced world and how we experience the land. It challenges us to reflect on our increasingly tenuous relationship to our natural environment, our one and only home.  

    • Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #4, ed. of 7, 2024
      Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #4, ed. of 7, 2024
      CAD 2,400.00
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    • Steve Kean, Follow Me, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Follow Me, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 525.00
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    • Steve Kean, Alberta Dome, ed. of 7, 2025
      Steve Kean, Alberta Dome, ed. of 7, 2025
      CAD 795.00
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    • Steve Kean, Autumn Brushes, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Autumn Brushes, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 450.00
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    • Steve Kean, Autumn Run, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Autumn Run, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 450.00
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    • Steve Kean, Calm, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Calm, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 525.00
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    • Steve Kean, Cusp of Winter, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Cusp of Winter, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 525.00
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    • Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #1 , ed. of 7, 2024
      Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #1 , ed. of 7, 2024
      CAD 2,400.00
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    • Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #5, ed. of 7, 2024
      Steve Kean, Digital Landscapes #5, ed. of 7, 2024
      CAD 2,400.00
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    • Steve Kean, Glass Lake, ed. of 7, 2025
      Steve Kean, Glass Lake, ed. of 7, 2025
      CAD 795.00
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    • Steve Kean, Lonely Road, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Lonely Road, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 525.00
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    • Steve Kean, Magnetawan Sunset, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Magnetawan Sunset, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 450.00
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    • Steve Kean, Metamorphia #1, ed. of 7, 2024
      Steve Kean, Metamorphia #1, ed. of 7, 2024
      CAD 2,400.00
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    • Steve Kean, Metamorphia #2, ed. of 7, 2024
      Steve Kean, Metamorphia #2, ed. of 7, 2024
      CAD 2,400.00
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    • Steve Kean, Passing Winter, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Passing Winter, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 525.00
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    • Steve Kean, Pastoral River #2, ed. of 7, 2025
      Steve Kean, Pastoral River #2, ed. of 7, 2025
      CAD 795.00
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    • Steve Kean, Pastoral River #3, ed of 7, 2025
      Steve Kean, Pastoral River #3, ed of 7, 2025
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    • Steve Kean, Pastoral River (2025 edit), ed. of 7, 2025
      Steve Kean, Pastoral River (2025 edit), ed. of 7, 2025
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    • Steve Kean, Right of Way, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Right of Way, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 525.00
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    • Steve Kean, Storm Light, ed. of 7, 2025
      Steve Kean, Storm Light, ed. of 7, 2025
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    • Steve Kean, Summer Dream #1, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Summer Dream #1, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 450.00
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    • Steve Kean, Summer Dream #2, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Summer Dream #2, ed. of 25, 2024
      CAD 525.00
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    • Steve Kean, The Boathouse, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, The Boathouse, ed. of 25, 2024
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    • Steve Kean, Tree Lined Path, ed. of 7, 2025
      Steve Kean, Tree Lined Path, ed. of 7, 2025
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    • Steve Kean, Twins, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Twins, ed. of 25, 2024
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    • Steve Kean, Vanishing Point, ed. of 25, 2024
      Steve Kean, Vanishing Point, ed. of 25, 2024 Sold

  • About the Artist

    I am an artist working in photography. Most of my work involves images made in the ever-shrinking green places and...

    I am an artist working in photography. Most of my work involves images made in the ever-shrinking green places and spaces between and inside cities. 

     

    The profound beauty of nature has always moved me. I grew up surrounded by plants, trees and animals and was taught from an early age to respect them. Having a disability that requires me to use a wheelchair has often made it difficult to interact with nature. But I have found ways. Most notably traveling through it on trains and automobiles. 

     

    My work that as a whole I call, "Moving Landscapes" is inspired by a diverse group of artists. Photographers like Peter Dusek, Ansel Adams, Ed Burtynsky and Freeman Patterson. I also find myself drawn to gifted painters including Mark Rothko; John Constable; Claude Monet; Vincent Van Gogh; Paul Cezanne; Georgia O'Keefe; Canadian painters the Group of Seven, especially honourary member, Tom Thompson; Steve Driscoll and artists of the Hudson River School. 

     

    In 2017, I received the Best in Photography and Digital Media award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, and I am honoured to have my photographs hanging in corporate collections and private homes. 

     

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