Summarized Biography

Stephen Pusey was born in London in 1952 and graduated from St. Martins School of Art in 1975. While his formative work had affinities to Abstraction and Surrealism he later created monumental public murals in a Photo-Realist style between 1977 and 1981. In 1982 he returned to studio work and was invited by PS1 to exhibit in New York in 1986. New York City then became his domicile and in the following years, Pusey experimented with various forms, including digital and networked media. In 1994 he founded the online art and discussion hub, Plexus (plexus.org), with curator Yu Yeon Kim and was a founding member of the Foundation for Digital Culture (1996). He was a contributing artist to Arsdoom (with Peter Weibel, et al) for Ars Electronica, 1995. In 1997 he co-curated, OMNIZONE, Perspectives in Mapping Digital Culture, featured on the Guggenheim Museum's, Cyberatlas website. Concurrent with these various experimentations the artist continued to paint. Between 2003 - 2004 he exhibited a 20 x 9 foot graphite mural at the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. In 2005 his paintings and graphite installations were the inaugural exhibition that began a series of artists' collaborations with Hermes, New York - that have included Doug Aitken, Lou Reed and others.

Stephen Pusey's work is in many private and corporate collections including the Neuberger Berman collection.

Michael Steinberg Fine Art presents a solo exhibition of Stephen Pusey's paintings from September 27th through October 23rd 2007.

Description of Work

Stephen Pusey's large acrylic paintings are a vibrant combination of line and color that suggests transparent forms that are constantly shifting and changing. Pusey builds this interlace of brush marks at speed and in an autonomic, random, manner. The result - though never a set symmetry - gives the sense of a morphing architecture that continues beyond the boundaries of the canvas. The artist's quest is to intuitively codify a universal energy which flows through existence. He is particularly interested in the resonance of organic and inorganic forms and how these are reflected as a persistent signature in the things we create and investigate.

While Stephen Pusey's work reflects an inner journey, he is intrigued by those scientific theories that coincide with what is explored in his paintings.

Stephen Pusey
Spilling Genesis
September 27th - October 23rd 2007