Steven

About the Artist

I have lived in the Baltimore area most of my life, while I also spent short periods in Pennsylvania and Michigan. I went to Penn State for graduate school and Towson University for my undergraduate degree. I received a Ford Foundation Grant for the Arts and a teaching assistantship to attend Penn State. While at Towson University I studied with Enrique Montenegro, learning a great deal about color and brushwork. I also studied with Richard Meyhew, learning what he liked to call the "Color grid" during my time at Penn State. I admire the work of the social realists in particular Philip Evergood. I also love the work of Maurice de Vlaminck and Oskar Kokoschka. I taught Lithography for several years at Towson University as well as painting, drawing, and watercolor at Penn State. My art moves from impressionistic to expressionistic styles and is a mixture of landscape and social observation. I feel art is about the journey, it's exploration. I love art that excites my eye and mind.My work can be seen at https://www.saatchiart.com/putter and https://www.instagram.com/is_this_still_life/.