About

Steven Alexander is an American artist who makes abstract paintings characterized by luminous color, sensuous surfaces and iconic configurations. His work has been exhibited and collected extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He holds an MFA in painting from Columbia University, where he studied with Richard Pousette-Dart and Dore Ashton. A member of the American Abstract Artists group, his awards include a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Belin Foundation grant for painting, and a studio residency at PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, as well as numerous public commissions including major works for the Hines Building in New York, the Liberty Mutual Building in Boston, and the MD Anderson Medical Center in Houston. In 2012, he collaborated with renowned Brazilian poet Lêdo Ivo to create Mormaço, a 224-page volume of selected poems and original paintings. He has been Artist-in-Residence at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, and Visiting Artist at Parsons the New School for Design. Currently Professor of Visual Arts at Marywood University, he maintains a home and studio in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania.