On many occasions, to find beauty we do not have to resort
to the extraordinary, the sublime or what is extremely delicate; beauty can be
in all that makes up the most absolute normality.
And an indisputable proof of this are the oil paintings of Charlie
Steg, a Hoboken, NJ painter who collects in his work, with incredible realism,
the magic and the spectacular nature of the intimate and daily moments that we
live.
Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, Charlie celebrates the unexpected
beauty of the mundane in his oil paintings that resemble photographs of faint
and fragile atmospheres.
In his creations, he brings to life interior scenes of
people sitting at cafeteria tables, nocturnal compositions of streets full of
cars or captures moments of modern life that are familiar to everyone and that
are more typical of street photography.
His most recent exhibition, entitled “Fear the Real',
attests to the fascination that the creative has for sober urban life
reminiscent of an updated version of the great Edward Hopper.
Charlie Steg graduated from the Montclair State University
with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts. “My main source of visual inspiration
comes from my own photographs, which mostly work in Photoshop or collage to
obtain the final composition," explains the painter about the process of
creating it.
"I am fascinated by the seeming coincidence in
cross-references within cultures, in advertising, literature, music titles,
history, art history, words, fashion, social policy, and religion.
"Realizing this turns everything into a kind of poetry;
which in fact it is, our absurd world is dizzyingly determined to injure
itself, it is so interesting and beautiful and I am a part of it."
Many of his paintings invite us to be observers of those who
do not know that they are being observed, however, in others, the protagonists
look at the camera as if appealing to the viewer, inviting them to look at the
world with another look, the one that you will discover beauty in almost
anything around you.
Charlie Steg’s work has been shown in numerous galleries and
institutions across the US, Canada, France and in China. HIS work has been
featured in a variety of publications.
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