Steve Starr

“My artwork’s primary focus is on human experience, the body positive, sexuality and gender identification, relationships and connections.  My medium is printmaking, photography, painting on paper and canvas.  The most important thing about my work is my unflinching interrogation of the human body as a site of identity, gender, sexuality, body positivity and our relationships with the nonhuman environment and our past. 

I am inspired by printmakers such as Nathalie LL, Andy Warhol, abstractionists such as Mark Rothko and Martin Kippenberger, musicians such as David Bowie, Lou Reed and Anton Newcombe, the figuration popart of Pat and Richard Larter and the photography of Cindy Sherman and David Mist.  I was drawn to marking art from my natural inclination to visual language, from my training as a lithographic print maker and a congenital need to be creative.”