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Stephen is
the son of a nuclear physicist and a learning-disabilities teacher. He grew up
in East Tennessee hill country in a town called Oak Ridge, whose original
purpose was to develop technology for the first atomic bomb.
He went to
school with children from families of scientists or of coal-miners. He spent
some years traveling the United States as a performing musician; he has also
worked as a composer, an actor, a writer, a massage therapist, and a teacher of
kinesiology, pathology, photography, and dance.
An enthusiasm
for art and its history led to street photography, then to Photoshop and
digital painting.
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Artistic approach:
Stephen’s ‘digital
paintings’ use captured and appropriated images that are processed (re-formed,
re-lit, re-surfaced) using automated applications and other digital means;
altered and augmented with virtual brushes; then blended with other digital
images that have undergone similar treatments. The images that result may be
processed further.
These are
then printed on a variety of substrates, including wood, canvas, and aluminum;
once printed, marks using brushes or pens with acrylics or inks may be added.
Some images
are accompanied by stories, written by the artist; and even for those works
that have only a title, the title is an integral part of the work. His images,
and especially their titles or stories, are meant to create dialogues with
history, literature, anthropology, myth, and other cultural phenomena.
https://www.stephenpare.art
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