About the Artist

Steven Silverstein gained a significant reputation photographing fashion and beauty for over 30 years, known for his conceptual and graphic style.

His new exploration of abstract photography is a natural progression for an American artist who spent the greater part of his career in Paris working with leading artists and designers, and whose personal aesthetic has been featured in Vogue Living, Elle Decor and Modernism magazines. Silverstein began his career with help from photographer Sarah Moon and her husband, art publisher Robert Delpire, who introduced his work to Peter Knapp, the legendary art director at French Elle. He went on to create over 50 covers and nearly 1000 editorial pages for top international publications such as Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, as well as ad campaigns for Yves St. Laurent, Givenchy, Ungaro, Carolina Herrera, L'Oreal and many other prominent brands. Silverstein's work has been exhibited and published internationally. He has been profiled by Nikon Pro Spotlight, Nikon World Magazine and PhotoArt Magazine, and has garnered press in many other art, design and mainstream media outlets.

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Artist's Statement

Control of light, along with the graphic composition I was tasked with on a near daily basis for top fashion magazines and advertisers, has allowed a transition in 2013 into new works of art. I've taken fashion models out of the equation and have been concentrating on light and color fusion in my work.

These abstractions have quickly become a near obsession. Particularly, in exploring the interaction of space, form and color and its effects on human perception, I'm intrigued by the blurring of distinctions visually - the illusion of depth with infinity, luminosity versus flatness, vibrations against texture, shapes and forms. More recently, I've started painting, infusing the photographic works with this additional element, to create mixed-media compositions. All of my work is captured in-camera with one exposure, and without digital manipulation.

As I continue the exploration, the works are constantly evolving. As the physicist Schrödinger said, "What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space." Just as the light in my work often makes a transition or quantum leap, I believe that theory applies to my own trajectory as well, as I've moved from one state of photography to another, an energy redistribution process.

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