STEVEN SEINBERG

Love at First Sight

Steven Seinberg is an exceptional artist. The American creative works across painting, drawing, and collage, often blending graphite and oil to produce breathtaking compositions on canvas. His bold strokes and poetically flowing lines merge the external world with a sense of perpetual motion, inspired by biological instincts, environmental forces, and emotional responses to his surroundings. Earthy tones and expressive brushwork are his preferred means of expression. Seinberg’s works leave viewers suspended in a state of transcendence—beyond time and space.

Born in Brooklyn, Steven Seinberg later moved to Georgia, where he attended the Atlanta College of Art and Georgia State University, earning his Master of Arts degree in 2001. His work draws inspiration from groundbreaking Abstract Expressionists such as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Clyfford Still, while also paying homage to masters like Claude Monet, J. M. W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollock.

At the heart of Seinberg’s art lies the act of observation – not only of what is seen, but also of what is heard and felt. His collages and paintings share certain recurring elements: coarse botanical silhouettes, informal and repetitive mark-making, and visual experiences that vary dramatically in composition, scale, and texture. While his paintings may convey a sense of enveloping calm, his collages offer another form of meditative repose.

Expressionist forms of painting have, in recent years, taken new directions—particularly within American art. Artists seem increasingly driven to explore new dimensions of openness in painting, free from self-imposed constraints. Yet within Steven Seinberg’s work, one encounters a rare equilibrium: his defined yet delicate forms emerge through his profound ability for self-reflection, enabling him to visualise his painterly process at every stage. His paintings require no theoretical framework. Rather, they offer the sensitive viewer an invitation to engage with the act of seeing on a level of visual tactility—where all senses are involved, and experience and knowledge become wholly translatable.

“Seinberg’s art is a journey through layers of colour,

texture, and light – a meditative balance of intuition and precision that captivates the viewer.”

Seinberg’s paintings exist on the threshold of the unforeseen – a painterly ethos that lends the texture of his surfaces a sense of precision, and a heightened openness to the very reality of what makes a painting a painting. His works radiate a sense of transcendence and sublimity that few painters today are able to achieve. Each composition embodies a complex process of addition and subtraction, as Seinberg passionately explores the preparatory act of liberating form from rigid boundaries.

What may appear as an impulsive splash of ochre pigment is, in fact, far more intricate – and, in a sense, inherently understated. The true challenge lies in uncovering poetic insight through various methods of manipulating the materiality of pigment, thereby granting the surface a distinct and compelling visual resonance that moves beyond the obvious.

Steven Seinberg is a gifted painter who transforms the way we see. In works such as Begin, Return, Inside Passage, Sunken, and In a Perfect World, he renders space and atmosphere, form and rhythm, in ways that are both unpredictable and ineffable. His art invites us to perceive nature anew – to become one with it as we gaze upon a moody, mist-laden Seinberg canvas.

His airy, measured, and deliberate sense of composition allows us to uncover multiple layers of existence within each work. This effect arises not only from visual observation, but also from the breadth of sensory responses his paintings evoke. Steven Seinberg is, above all, a visual artist – an heir to the Western artistic tradition that continually seeks to expand the horizon of vision.

Learn more about Steven Seinberg’s art at Galerie Benjamin Eck: www.benjamin-eck.com