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JOSEPH T. STEvEnS | UsA
www.stoneartist.com

I am Californio, born in Santa Monica, raised in OC and elsewhere; fine art drawing skills honed at the Art Students League of nYC ,
living in a high desert south of the Sierras. I have studied art with where a strong foundation emphasized an autodidactic close study
Frank Tauriello, Jose De Creeft, Robert Beverly Hale, Lewis Cohen, and passionate exploration of art as deeply as one’s perception
Anthony Amato, as well as many others including the wisdom and temperament would permit . This stern focus yielded a
and support of Master Stone Mason Ed Lohr Sr. of Carnevale & lifelong appetite for the plastic arts with added meaning in a world
Lohr. named and unnamed comrades in and out of urban studios increasingly without . I earned my bachelors in English drafting as an
worldwide continue to inform my hope for some understanding of aerospace designer for 13 years of a 20 year college journey. writing
beauty. To my parents and other creative soldier-souls who have is for me as chewing, so i feel nourished by expression. I mean to
provided strong links to the art chain of human history on which to learn and devise a way to infuse the inevitable regeneration of our
hang my humble offerings, I thank you. My work is as honest as my planet after we are gone with some idea of what beauty the human
nature will allow. I strive for fine art product that welcomes all who race had been capable of the regardless of the scalding madness
come and go - changed or no. I hope there remains a place in our and destruction from a peril as ancient as the Sirens of Odysseus.
world for contemplative art; I work to provide a window in which An irony too great that the unquenchable human spirit be subdued
each may consider hers / or his mind free from headings found on by the Siren twitch from a +/- 5v electrode affixed to the remnants
the ” venal chart .” Any facility of mine for objet d’art derives from of a once free people, ” say it ain’t so Shane, say it ain’t so .”

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