Steve Banks

Promised Land (of Sky Blue Waters), Brightly Colored Pop Art, Mixed Media

2021

Using bold imagery and a bright color palette, Steve Banks takes pieces of popular culture to create this work entitled "Relative Location (Redux)". He creates a scene with animated comic book characters and imaginative uses of commercial products. Several layers of paint and raised lettering give the piece three-dimensional quality adding to the overall aesthetic. Steve Banks Relative Location (Redux) mixed media 66h x 34w in 167.64h x 86.36w cm STB015 STEVE BANKS b. Cedar Rapids, IA, 1972 EDUCATION 1997 MFA – Florida State University 1995 BFA – Northwest Missouri State University SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Pop Culture Palimpsest. Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA 2014 A More Refined Mayhem. Cortona Gallery, Ashford University, Clinton, IA Ill-Suited For The Pleasantries. Black Hawk College Artspace, Moline, IL 2013 Dutiful Citizen. Maquoketa Art Experience, Maquoketa, IA 2009 Carry-on Baggage. University of Western Illinois, Macomb, IL 2008 Funky Aftertaste. Moressey Gallery. St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA 2005 Surfacing. Next II Gallery, New Orleans, LA Process, Perception and Clandestine Skivvies. Bucktown Ctr for the Arts, Davenport, IA 2004 Last Gasp. Midcoast Art Under Glass at The Parker Building, Davenport, IA 2003 B.M.O.C. and Nitzles. Peanut Gallery, Rock Island, IL 2002 Walls and the Mask. Peanut Gallery, Rock Island, IL 1997 The Faces of Masks: Color Photographic Studies. Tallahassee Airport Gallery, Tallahassee, FL 1996 Masks. Oglesby Gallery, Tallahassee, FL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Dr. Portmanteau's Galorium Emporium. Black Hawk College ArtSpace Gallery, Moline, IL Faculty Art Show. Catich Gallery, Saint Ambrose...

This 3-dimensional collage stories the trials and tribulations of Chicago's West Side Hispanic community the artist resided in for many years. Found ephemera and novelty items decorate the surface of this beautiful collage. It is floated in a simple black frame measuring 34h x 49w inches. Marcos Raya...

Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city in Caria, in Anatolia. It was located in southwest Caria, on an advantageous site on the Gulf of Gökova, which is now in Bodrum, Turkey. The city was famous for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, ranked as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Halicarnassus was loyal to the Persians and formed part of the Persian Empire until Alexander the Great captured it at the siege of Halicarnassus in 333 BC. Here, the Kupjack Studios have meticulously researched the era and have gone to painstaking detail to present this miniature version of Alexander's Tent. Based on a scale of one foot equals one inch, each piece of furniture, rug, decoration is fabricated with exacting detail. Kupjack Miniatures Alexander's Siege Tent, Halicarnassus, ca. 333 BC, circa 2003 mixed media 24.50h x 22.75w x 18.50d in 62.23h x 57.78w x 46.99d cm KJK004 Eugene Kupjack and his sons Hank and Jay created museum quality miniature rooms...

Marcos Raya's artwork has deep connections to Rasquache or Rasquachismo– an aesthetic tied to the working-class Mexican art exemplified by the statement "Make the most of the least"....

Marcos Raya's artwork has deep connections to Rasquache or Rasquachismo– an aesthetic tied to the working-class Chicano and Mexican art exemplified by the statement "Make the most of the least". His work is heavily influenced by Mexican Folk Art, Surrealism, and Symbolism. His work also has ties to DADA Art and artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. And, of course, his contemporaries, The Chicago...

Marcos Raya's artwork has deep connections to Rasquache or Rasquachismo– an aesthetic tied to the working-class Mexican art exemplified by the statement "Make the most of the least"....

Mixed media signed and hand embellished with inks and paint, print on paper. Edition 1/1 Fantastic bright red pop art featuring James McQueen's most loved quote. Expertly framed an...

Photographic Mosaic Joel creates thousands of small images of the female form to express irony or sarcasm which empathises what society invades on a daily basis. The piece is pre...

Alighiero Boetti (Turin 1940 - Rome 1994), Untitled (Time) (1985) Mixed media on paper 70 x 50 cm signed in the bottom center, also at the bottom is an openwork inscription I vedent...

Francisco Bartus is a Spanish painter born in Valencia. His high school professors saw his vision and talent and encouraged him to pursue art in his higher education. Since, Fransisc...

Mixed Media 3D painting of a beach from aerial view

People Speaking (2017), Mixed Media: Watercolor, Tempera, Acrylic on Paper Fabriano 600 g, 41,5x57,5 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambro...