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Biography

Steven Alexander (b. 1953) is an American artist who makes abstract paintings characterized by luminous color, sensuous surfaces, and iconic configurations. His works are composed as sensate visual events that embody potential states of being. They present uncomplicated color situations that mirror the viewer. The situations allude to rhythms, tensions, and dualities of the body and psyche. They invite meditative encounters with one's perception and imagination.

Born in west Texas, Alexander spent his early years observing the vast skies and flat expanses of the southwest plains. He studied art at Austin College before He moved to New York in 1975 to obtain his M.F.A. in painting from Columbia University. There, he studied with Richard Pousette-Dart and Dore Ashton. Alexander became an elected member of the American Abstract Artists group. He has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Belin Foundation. He maintained a studio residency at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, and Studio Art Centers International in Italy. He has also been awarded numerous public commissions. 

As well as exhibiting his own works, Alexander has curated exhibitions and written critical essays on contemporary artists. His works have been featured in more than one hundred exhibitions, most recently in one-person shows in New York at Spanierman Modern and David Findlay Jr Gallery, as well as in numerous solo and group exhibitions and art fairs throughout the United States and abroad. He maintains a home and studio in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania.