“This work would have looked perfect...in the Bauhaus or in Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of this Century gallery...But Silverstein’s works, by and large, brim as they might with fleeting references, don’t look like anyone else’s paintings, much less photographs.”
Artist Steven Silverstein.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
In 2013, photographer Steven Silverstein began creating experimental, non-representational abstract photography, created in-camera. He deploys an exploration of light, often with symbols, color fields and geometric abstraction. The images are not created as computer art or with chemical processes. They are not photograms. The finished artwork is printed with hands-on attention using archival pigment inks on rag paper, canvas, and other substrates.
PHOTOGRAPHY BACKGROUND
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Steven Silverstein studied fine art photography at Art Center College for a year in his native Los Angeles and after apprenticing, supported himself as a photographer for several years before moving to Paris in the 1970s. There, photographer Sarah Moon and and her husband, Robert Delpire, art publisher and former director of Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, saw his conceptual work and made an important introduction to pioneering art director Peter Knapp. It was the start of a long career creating images for the highest levels of international fashion magazines and advertising spanning four decades. In 2013, he began exploring non-representational photography with the creation of inventive, in-camera photographic abstractions.
Silverstein’s photography has been exhibited worldwide and published in exhibition books in Paris, New York, Montreal, Seville, Madrid, Turin, Los Angeles, Houston, Austin and Palm Springs, including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville), La Venaria Reale - Reggia (Turin), CentroCentro (Madrid), and other museums and galleries. Additionally, his work has been published in numerous retrospective books and held in private and corporate collections, and archives. Media profiles include Nikon Pro Spotlight video, Nikon World magazine, PhotoArt magazine (cover) and Zoom magazine (cover), among others. In addition to guest-lecturing at leading universities and art institutions, he was the creator/co-director of a photography educational program in Paris and Los Angeles.
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