JOSEPH STEININGER
IN CONTEXT
APRIL 25 - JUNE 6, 2020
VIRTUAL OPENING APRIL 25, 5-6PM
In Context is an exhibition of new spray-painted works on panel by artist Joseph Steininger. On view April 11 – May 23, 2020. Opening Reception, Saturday April 11, 2020 from 3-6pm and First Thursday May 7, 2020 5-8pm. Artist in attendance.
Working from photographs taken of rough urban landscapes, graffiti, condemned buildings and overgrown parking lots, Joseph Steininger elevates typically unnoticed or seemingly decrepit subject matter to the level fine art.
In Context explores Steiniger’s process of painstakingly reducing images to abstracted shapes through intricate hand-cut stencils. This not only lays the groundwork for his elaborately spray-painted compositions, but the act of rebuilding the image through multiple spray-painted stenciled layers imbues each piece with a new life and context as a work of fine art.
Seattle native, Joseph Steininger is an artist and innovator interested in the constant changing space found in cities. His work is influenced by a mixture of street art culture and printmaking processes. Using traditional and time-honored forms of fine art, his pieces are remarkably complex and masterfully represent this contemporary medium.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a digital catalog will be published with an essay written by arts writer and editor Lauren Gallow.
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Based out of Seattle, WA, Joseph Steininger is an artist and innovator. Using intricately detailed and hand-cut stencils applied with spray paint, his personal work is influenced by street art culture and printmaking. Using traditional and time-honored forms of fine art, his pieces are remarkably complex and masterfully represent this contemporary medium.
Spray paint is still seen by many to be an artistic medium incapable of creating fine art. Joseph, through his work, aims to bridge the gap between preconceived notions of what can and cannot be defined and exhibited as fine art. By using a contemporary medium, like spray paint, and creating a body of work using traditional subject matter, the artist forces the viewers to expand their assumptions about the ever-expanding possibilities to be found in the fine art world.
Similar to many forms of printmaking, the artist creates his work by meticulously hand-cutting intricately detailed stencils. The stencils are then layered to create a distinct body of work which displays his mastery of the craft.