My current landscapes are based on digital terrain models of the Adirondack High Peaks, collected by NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, and processed in NIH Image, a medical imaging program developed by the National Institutes of Health. The resulting files are printed with archival ink and paper, and then overworked with watercolor or tempera. In my work, I am looking for a threshold of recognition, where aspects of our experience of the landscape become discernable, absent perspective. The vertical point of view and mathematical filtering of the elevation data reveal coherent, engaging, and unanticipated patterns across the terrain. These works explore the emergence of information from apparent noise, the tension between digital and analog means of expression, and the appearance of the knowable within the unfamiliar. There is a strong correlation with my GIS work at the Highlands Environmental Research Institute, mapping ecological and geologic constraints, to help foster informed land use decisions. I have a strong affinity for the landscapes of the early modernist painters, particularly Cezanne and Kandinsky. I was deeply influenced by my friendship and collaborations with Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Rauschenberg, on prints and multiples in the early 1970’s at Gemini GEL in Los Angeles, and thereafter on projects in New York City.

DONALD STEINMETZ EMPLOYMENT

EXPERIENCE

2004-Present 2003-2004 1998-2000 1996-1997 1995-1996 1980-1995 1979-1980 1975-1979 1973-1975 1970-1971

Highlands Environmental Research Institute, Tuxedo, NY GIS_Director Wildlife Trust Palisades, NY Project Leader, New York Bioscape Project SUNY Rockland Suffern, NY Adjunct Professor of Art History and Painting

School of Visual Arts
Instructor, Drawing Workshop Guggenheim Museum
Exhibition Lighting and Installation Blum Helman Gallery
Curator and Gallery Manager Charles Cowles Gallery Exhibition Design

New York, N New York, NY New York, NY

New York, NY Freelance Construction, Design and Installation

Betty Cunningham Gallery New York, NY Assistant Director Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles, CA Curatorial and Collaborative Assistant

COLLABORATION: The Hudson River Project, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University 3-D Visualization and animation of benthic mapping data The Palisades Learning Team, Wildlife Trust, Palisades, NY Assessed of the role of GIS in the Palisades Landscape Highlands Environmental Research Institute GIS Director Designed and completed projects studying biodiversity, critical habitat, cultural resources, landuse and water quality; supporting initiatives by the NYS OPRHP, NYS DEC, PIPC, Trailside Museum, The Highlands Coalition, NYS Invasive Plant Council, and Hudson River Watershed Alliance

EDUCATION

EXHIBITION DESIGN AND INSTALLATION Ellsworth Kelly: Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Carnegie Institute, Whitney Museum, Vassar College Art Gallery, Laura Carpenter Gallery Bryan Hunt: The National Museum of American Art, The Orlando Museum, and the Williams College Museum. Steve Keister: The Rotterdam Arts Council, and the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris. Ettore Sottsass: The Museum des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal. Collaborated on printmaking, and site specific projects with Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Sol Lewitt, Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Serra Organized “Artists for Amnesty” (1990) Exhibition and sale of work donated by over 100 prominent artists for the benefit of Amnesty International. EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS Bomb Magazine
Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, N.Y. Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, N.Y. The Workspace, New York, N.Y.

1969–1973 Bachelor of Arts

Bard College

Annandale on Hudson, NY Donald Steinmetz 1020 Rt. 9 W Nyack, N.Y. 10960 845-358-4082 dhsteinmetz@gmail.com