STEPHEN LINSTEADT
Stephen Linsteadt is a California-born painter, currently residing in Brazil. Inspired by the Brazilian landscape, its people, and environmental challenges, he creates vivid imagery of nature, often in the framework of mythological motifs to address the various crises of contemporary society, such as changing environments, materialism, loneliness, and intolerance. He is known for his energetic brushwork and sensual use of paint and color.
Linsteadt's paintings represent the process of making art as much as the rumination of the message. He utilizes an armature of geometry and color from which he allows the work to change and evolve. He works and re-works the surface with an emphasis on the gestural as a tribute to the human condition.
"My work is inspired by the transformative journey that humanity undertakes either by choice or by outside influences, particularly when it causes us to be introspective. Covid-19 has brought change to our lives in ways we have not experienced as a global community since WWII. My recent work is inspired by these events and seeks to express how the human spirit rises to the occasion and in the process grows closer to each other with more compassion, love, and hope".
