• Painting in the Columbia River Gorge near Hood River, OR 2009
  • Ex NYC Tanker as studio - home Jersey City, NJ 1979 - 1989
  • Assembling parts for big bore main engine rebuild Jersey City, NJ 1983
  • My truck crane for art rigging (L. Borgeois work) NYC 1984
  • Raising a barge near Battery Park City, NY 1987
  • At our pier in Hastings-on Hudson, NY 1988
  • Raising a sunken 70' shrimper offshore of Charleston, SC 1991
  • Building a tugboat upper pilothouse and tower in Portland, OR 1999
  • Building our steel house, Portland, OR 2005
  • Building our steel house, Portland, OR 2005
  • Kayaking in the Columbia River near Scapoose, OR 2008
  • Serving as Federal Court Appointed Monitor on supertankers 2008-2010
  • Working on Stockton & Clay, SF in the studio in Portland, OR 2011
  • With installation Floating Bales at Industry & Art Portland, OR 2012
  • Building sculpture 2 a T Portland, OR 2013
  • Image mining near Halchita, UT 2013
  • Dawn patrol on the Kill Van Kull, Staten I., NY 2014 (photo W.Van Dorp)
  • The studio aboard my liftboat Legs III, near Hastings-on-Hudson NY, September 2022
Contact

Mail: 245 8th avenue #120 New York, NY 10011
info@sethtane.com

My origins are in NYC, but I was bound for the west coast as soon as I could get there...making sculptures and paintings of industrial and urban scenes while enjoying a wild ride of a life on land and at sea. My hands-on experiences in a world I find visually fascinating drives my desire to create detailed paintings of ships, trains, bridges and industry. My gradual return to residency in NYC has renewed a fascination with the global mix of people that surround me as I live in and travel throughout the city. The crowds and faces, the clothes and things transported, that 24/7 intensity in contrast with the views I find at the deserted margins, all make for endless inspiration.

Exhibitions

2024 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM solo show: The Painted City
2022 350 Bleeker, NY, NY solo show
2021 ABFA Gallery, Binghamton, NY Palm Beach Modern + Contemp. virtual fair
2021 ABFA Gallery, Binghamton, NY Pocket Sized, virtual group show
2020 ABFA Gallery, Binghamton, NY, virtual solo show Shifting Horizons
2020-2023 Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Muscat Oman, group show
2020 ABFA Gallery, Binghamton, NY virtual group show, Urban/Rural
2020 ABFA Gallery, Binghamton, NY Art Wynwood Art Fair
2019 350 Bleeker, NY, NY solo show
2019 Louis Meisel Gallery, NY, NY group show Food for Thought
2019 ABFA Gallery, Binghamton, NY Palm Springs Art Fair
2018 ABFA Gallery, Binghamton, NY Scope Miami Fair
2018 ABFA Gallery, Binghamton, NY group show
2018 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA solo show
2017 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art Miami Fair
2017 Helena Fox Fine Art, Charleston SC solo show: In a New York Minute
2017 SFCC Gallery, Spokane, WA, group show: Landscapes
2017 Bernaducci-Meisel Gallery, NY, NY, group show: Size Doesn't Matter
2016 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art Miami Fair
2015 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art Miami Fair
2015 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco Fair
2015 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA group show
2015 GBD Architects Gallery, Portland, OR solo show
2015 CentrlOffice Workspace Gallery, Portland, OR solo show
2015 No Ad digital curated app exhibit on NYC Subway by the Subway Art Blog, group show
2014 Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, CT. group show: Contemporary Realism
2014 Cavalier Galleries Project 3W57, NY, NY. fall group show
2014 Industry & Art, Portland, OR. group show
2014 William Rolland Gallery, CA Lutheran U., Thousand Oaks, CA. group show: the Beautiful
2014 Deborah Berke Partners, NY, NY. solo show: Above & Below
2013 Victory Gallery, Portland, OR, solo show: New York + New Work
2012-2013 PDX Int. Airport Terminal B group show
2012 Industry & Art, Portland, OR. juried group show featured artist
2011 Industry & Art, Portland, OR. juried group show 2nd place
2011 Atlantic Gallery, NY, NY. group show Concealment & Disclosure
2010 PDX Gallery, Portland, OR. group show
2010 Atlantic Gallery, NY, NY. group show Water
2009 Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR. group show Town & Country
1991 Trident Chamber of Commerce, Charleston, SC. solo show
1991 Owensboro Mus. of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY group show: S.Carolina Contemporary Images
1990 City Gallery, Charleston, SC. solo show
1990 Gibbes Gallery, Charleston, SC. group show Charleston's Maritime Heritage
1989 Gibbes Gallery, Charleston, SC. solo lecture/show the Artist and his Style
1987 Piccolo Spoleto Charleston, SC. group invitational show
1985 Nassau Cty. Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Hbr, NY. group show, The Tradition in Steel
1979 Keenlyside Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. group opening show
1978 N.W. Artist's Workshop Gallery, Portland, OR. two person show
1977 Linfield College, McMinnville, OR. solo show
1976 C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT. group juried show
1976 White Gallery, PSU Portland, OR. solo show
1975 Winter Gallery, Portland, OR. solo show
1972 RISD Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI. two person show
1970 Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. group show Young Realists Show

Collections

Sheldon Museum, Lincoln NE, Contemporary American Painting Permanent Collection
Private collections:
San Francisco + Los Angeles + Oceanside CA
Chicago, IL
Mission Hills, KS
Worcester, MA
New York + Port Washington + Great Neck + Floral Park, NY
Portland + Hood River + Ashland, OR
Charleston, SC
Houston, TX
Arlington, VA
Quechee, VT
Vancouver, Canada
Paris, France

Grants and Commissions

2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1989 Painting Commission, U.S. Navy Charleston, SC
1989 Special Project Grant, SC Arts Council
1989 Small Project Grant, Charleston Area Arts Council, Charleston, SC
1983 NJ Humanities Council Film Grant

Collaborations

1976 Film Collaboration: Railroad Turnbridge 19 min B/W (With Richard Serra)

Representation

My wonderful gallery representation: LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
And as always, you can also contact me directly by email: info@sethtane.com and follow my occasional photo posts on: Instagram

Press

03/20/2024 Fine Art Connoisseurhttps://fineartconnoisseur.com/2024/03/seth-tane-the-painted-city/
03/20/2024 American Art Collector Online https://www.americanartcollector.com/issues/222/seth-tane
05/11/2018 Artsy press release
04/19/2018 Wall Street International Magazine https://wsimag.com/art/37549-seth-tane
04/09/2013 KBOO Art Focus radio interview
09/20/2012 Oregonian article Portland Oregonian
06/11/1991 Charleston, SC News and Courier article "Salvor's art reflects his work"
12/23/1990 Charleston, SC News and Courier article "Artist redefines his reality"
02/10/1989 Charleston, SC Port News article "Hooked on painting the waterfront"