Geoffrey Stein
Geoffrey Stein · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Collage, Acrylic Paint, Pencil
- Based in
- New York City
- Practice
- Collage, Drawing, Painting, Works on Paper
Geoffrey Stein is a former lawyer, who has been painting full-time since 2000. He received a Certificate in Painting from the New York Studio School in 2004 and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2007. … Full biography
Biography
Geoffrey Stein is a former lawyer, who has been painting full-time since 2000. He received a Certificate in Painting from the New York Studio School in 2004 and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2007. Stein has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries throughout the United States and in London, Dublin, Paris, and Reykjavik. He was the first Artist-in-Residence at the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, White Plains, NY from 2022-23. Stein lives and paints in New York City.
Artist statement
I paint, draw and collage to find out what I think about the world; to discover the things I do not have words for. When painting, I savor the slips of the hand that express one’s unconscious feelings about the subject, and in collage, I love the randomness — the snippets of text and photographs appearing and disappearing that become the subject’s likeness. I am interested in the conversation between abstraction and realism. My work explores the tension of what needs to be shown and what does not, the seen and the unseen.
