Gregg Steffensen
Mixed Media | Painting
Gregg Steffensen considers himself a mixed media artist, musician, and carpenter.
Born in Westlock, Alberta, Canada to a working-class family, Gregg quickly learned the value of hands-on work. This ethic eventually brought him to the arts as a carpenter, props builder, and technician of audio, as a graduate of the Douglas College Stagecraft Program for Technical Theatre.
For ten years, Gregg pursued music as an after-work outlet, as well as created the occasional painting. In 2008 he decided to switch his main artistic focus from music to painting. “I had just completed my third album with Hinterland and felt it was time to give in to the continual rush of ideas I’d been having.”
Gregg considers himself a self-taught emerging artist, influenced by the industrial. “I am drawn to the mechanical environment; especially decommissioned sites and structures. I feel they have something to teach us about self-being and our passage as end-users.”
Gregg is a graduate of the Fine Arts Certificate program at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He also has completed some private studies with Elizabeth Barnes and has been featured in two group exhibitions, The Drift 2008 & 2009.
His current projects include Control, an acrylic and photo transfer series on small plywood blocks. “The images in this series are an attempt to give voices to industrial structures, most of them abandoned by their user. My inspiration or goal is to convey how the unknown knows.”
Gregg Steffensen lives and works in East Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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