Stephen Linhart - About My Artwork

About My Art

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I work in digital collage, algorithmic art and vector art using a camera, a scanner and a computer. My source materials include my own photography as well as stock photography and timeless art of the past. Starting with scans, photographs, and mathematical abstractions, I blend, combine and compose to create images that move me.

I’m making some of my newer work available as fine photographic poster prints and stretched-canvas posters. These prints and canvases are up to 36x24 inches and come to you directly from Printroom.com for $15 and up.

Self Portrait

Because I create my art on a computer, there are no physical originals. I make limited editions and monoprints using a LightJet printer operated by Calypso Imaging. These prints are the primary physical form of my work. The LightJet prints directly to photographic paper using colored lasers. I print on Fujicolor matte Crystal Archive paper, which provides an excellent, long-lasting print. I mount them on acrylic for stability and frame without glazing because I prefer the prints to be immediate, not secluded behind glass. These prints are a durable media which can be handled with the same care you would use with a varnished oil painting. I’m currently pricing my limited edition prints and monoprints at $1000, mounted, signed and framed.

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I think of my work as exploration more than expression. The mimetic tangle that is 21st century art is full of discoveries waiting to happen. Ever-increasing exposure to the art of many times and cultures leaves us surrounded by so many styles and techniques that it would be hard to accept any one dogma or system, any one answer to “What is Beauty?” or “What is Art?” The construction and manipulation of aesthetic systems is the great plastic medium of our time.

In the digital manipulation of fine art and photography, I’m exploring the relationship between collage, pop art and algorithmic art. I’m not following one school or path, but exploring a wilderness of possibilities. I process and combine images to create an image-space, which I explore to find what I’m seeking. It’s something like finding pretty shells on a beach, except that first I have to make the beach. I find a glimpse of something—a shell—then I compose and edit the image to capture that glimpse. Sometimes it works and I keep it. Sometimes it doesn’t and I start again.

Some of my works are inspired by myths and stories. For others, I use a more abstract method of pure exploration. Working by experimentation and serendipity helps me explore aesthetic systems more freely.

I’m currently working on several techniques, each of which is represented in this portfolio. I collage from extreme close-ups of flowers and of the human form. I digitally sketch photographs into pop-oriented vector art. And I also use art that I’ve ‘found’ in the works of great painters. It has been common in recent decades for prominent artists to ‘find’ material in the output of lesser-known artists and designers. I reverse that process.

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Digital Collage Double Flowers (2005) detail Combining two or more images using computer software.	Vector Art Urban (2004) detail Drawing with mathematical shapes instead of pixels or brush strokes.
Algorithmic Art Twirl (2006) detail Making art using a program or algorithm rather than drawing or photography.	Flower Portrait Lilly (2006) A photographic portrait of a flower with minimal editing on the computer.

Biography

About My Art

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Biography

Stephen Linhart was born in 1960 in New York where he designed his first computer game at the age of 8. His education at Oberlin College and the University of Pennsylvania was eclectic in the extreme. Since 1982 his creative work has included digital collage, interactive entertainment, algorithmic art, screensavers and Web art.

Over two million visitors have seen his work on the World Wide Web.

Linhart’s awards for animation and design include Cool Site of the Day, The Apple Quicktime Web Challenge, and the International After Dark Contest. He also had a brief moment of glory at the top of the heap in Core War, and once dominated an international RoboWar competition.

Permanent Collections

IMCAC Fort Worth, TX
Artcolle Sergines, France
The Learning Connexion Wellington, New Zealand
Hill Country Arts Foundation Ingram, TX
Turchin Center Boone, NC
Centre for Adult Education Melbourne, Australia

Group Shows

Algorithmic Art 1994

Xerox PARC, Silicon Valley

Can You Digit 1996

Postmasters Gallery, Soho, New York

Florence Biennale 2003

Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy

Baker’s Dozen Collage Exchange 1999-2007 (an annual event)

Museo de Collage, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Subtaranian Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Artcolle, Sergines, France
The Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
Durango Art Center, Durango, CO
The Learning Connexion, Wellington, NZ
IMCAC, Fort Worth, TX

International Collage Exhibition & Exchange 2006-2007 (an annual event)

Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX
Turchin Center, Boone, NC
Real TART, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne, Australia

Human Artefakts 2006-2007 (a traveling exhibit)

Art Works, Richmond, VA
Artful Gatherings, Lemont, IL
Gallery Atelierhof, Bremen, Germany

The Learning Connexion, Wellington, NZ
The Framing Workshop, Hamilton, NZ
Expressions, Upper Hutt, NZ
Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, NZ
Christchurch Arts Festival, Christchurch, NZ

Mini Artefakts 2007

Borrelli Space Gallery, San Diego, CA

White on White 2007

IMCAC, Fort Worth, TX