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RESUME
BIO:
Steve Spencer didn’t get serious about creating art until he was well past forty. Then he dove headfirst into creating exuberant acrylic paintings and three-dimensional assemblages that mash together folk and pop art in a musical fashion.
As a child, Steve’s art was shown in museums in Little Rock and Memphis, but his school only offered two years of art class. After careers in investment banking and advertising, free-lancing gave Steve pockets of time to explore painting again.
Steve has synesthesia, music makes him see colors and forms. He is working to create exuberant canvases, with rhythms and moods and feelings akin to those evoked by the music of Earth, Wind & Fire, Charles Mingus, Phillip Glass and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Spencer’s unique outsider style and storytelling bent have drawn regional and national attention, and presented him with a range of expressive avenues.
RESUME:
Mid-America Arts Alliance, Catalyze grant recipient, Kansas City, MO June 2024
Annual Juried Exhibition, SAAA, El Dorado, Arkansas June 2024
The Other Art Fair, Dallas, May 2022, October 2023
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, May - September 2021
62nd Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, June 19 - August 25, 2020
Permanent & Natural, Carnegie Center for Art and History, featured artist, February 22 - April 18, 2020
Pop-Up Art Shop: Nov. 7 - 10, 2019, Little Rock Pop-Up Art Shop: Nov. 7 -10, 2024, Little Rock
Guest Artist, Google doodle. September 16, 2019, B.B. King.
Behind the scenes video about the Google Doodle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTb4wUZhBRA
Gestalt Projects - Spectrum Gestalt Small Works of a predominent color, Santa Monica. Gestalt Projects: 2018, 2019, 2024
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art: Dec. 1, 2017, March 31, 2018. In conjunction with the Stuart Davis retrospective and The Soul of a Nation, Crystal Bridges asked Steve to create a painting onsite, while several paintings and limited edition prints were sold in the gift shop. Bentonville.
Historic Arkansas Museum: February, 2016. Honored as recipient of a grant for visual arts. Little Rock.
PUBLICATIONS:
Brand International, Brand Design Magazine. Issue 56, Guangzhou, China
Artist of the year "Jazz Colours" magazine, Anno VII, n.10 Milan, Italy
"Spitball" quarterly, Baseball Artist of the Year. Cincinnati, Ohio