Seth Tane's artwork shares a personal history of the places he has lived, which include unique geographies such as New York City, the Pacific Northwest, and coastal South Carolina. 

He paints scenes of busy subway stations and bustling city sidewalks, as well as highways, railroads, shipyards, buildings, and wide-open spaces, frequently from unique vantage points. LewAllen Galleries is pleased to present an exhibition of Tane's work, which blends realism, with an occasional touch of the surreal, as he places unlikely subway station entrances into a desert landscape, or a mossy, rock-lined creek over the tracks of a subway train.  

Tane’s appreciation of realist painters is evident in his art, as he paints his subjects and settings with meticulous detail. He counts as influences the work of artists like Edward Hopper, George Bellows and the Ashcan School painters, as well as more recent realists including Richard Estes and Rod Penner. 

Born in New York City in 1953, Tane has been fascinated with the sights and sounds of the urban environment since childhood. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1970s, working in mixed media. While he has painted throughout his life, he has also lived and worked in the marine industry, serving as a captain on a variety of vessels, and doing marine salvage. 

Seth Tane lives and works in New York along the Hudson River on his liftboat studio. In addition to his oil paintings, he also creates a variety of assemblage sculptures using steel, wood, and mixed media. His work has been featured in galleries and museums and can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout the US.