“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.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Photographer Steven Silverstein’s accomplished career photographing fashion and beauty spans over four decades. In 2013, he began creating experimental abstract photography, created in-camera. These images are an exploration of light, often with symbols, color fields and geometric abstraction. They are not created as computer art, scans, 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. Read his Artist Statement.
PHOTOGRAPHY BACKGROUND
Steven Silverstein studied fine art photography at Art Center College for a year in 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 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 at French ELLE. It was the start of a long career creating images for the highest levels of international fashion magazines and advertising. In 2013, he began exploring non-representational photography with the creation of inventive, in-camera photographic abstractions.
Silverstein’s photography has been exhibited and published in exhibition catalogues 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 Museo de Arte y Costumbres Populares (Seville). Additionally, his work has been published in numerous retrospective books and held in private and corporate collections, as well as archives. Media profiles include Nikon Pro Spotlight video, Nikon World magazine, PhotoArt magazine (cover), Zoom magazine (cover), Elle Decor, Vogue Living, Modernism, ShoutOut LA, and Palm Springs Life, among other press. 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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