I start with photographs and do pure photography or apply artistic modifications using computer software. Some images are born in my imagination and are created in the computer. However I do it, the final image is printed using pigment ink on canvas or perhaps lustre paper or matte paper. The paper images are framed and the canvas images are put on stretcher bars for hanging in domestic and corporate environments. Some images get further treatment using oil pastels, markers, colored pencils, or other media. i love to experiment and see what happens and often get wonderful surprises!

I've continued to expand my Islamic tile series this year in a different shape/format. I've also returned to one of my first loves (sumi ink + watercolor) created both on paper and on canvas.

My show will be part of Hunter's Point on 10/29 and 10/30; hope to see you there!

I am driven by a need to make sense of the world around me, which I see as fragmented, contradictory, and anxious. I seek to capture the cartoonishness that runs through American society wherein the individual is not only bombarded by an excess of choice, information, and rampant consumerism, but is also in a constant state of wanting more. Flotsam from this perpetual cycle of consumer pop culture is woven into my paintings, embedding my figures in an intricate web that suggests the non-stop movement of the mind, as well as the depth, complexity, and interconnectedness of life.

My work is influenced by music, cartoons, and dreams: I am fascinated with their spatial, temporal and structural components which I see as analogous to contemporary consciousness. I work primarily with layers of paint and collage that are woven together to create a dense network of relationships ripe with narrative possibilities. By using disparate and often ambiguous images, the flow of ideas becomes disrupted, meaning is subverted, and logic is obfuscated. My work becomes infused with an elusive visual poetry that seeks to inspire viewers to make their own connections based on personal associations.

In my work I am constantly translating a story I have in mind into images. My process involves building a surface, then scratching away most of what was originally painted. As I scratch I become in touch, literally and metaphorically, with the painting. Using colors, lines and shapes it often reflects in a whimsical and playful imagery.

After classical drawing and painting studies in Munich and Berlin,Germany my work began to develop into the more abstract form that it has today. Concerns in my work are time, pressure, change and fragility. Matter collides and interacts in a fusion of color and geometry which contrasts with free nature forms. Lines are important because they exert a uniquely human influence over natural shapes. I use many materials - mixed media. The basis is usually acrylic paint with the addition of paper, pastels, charcoal, pencil and sometimes oil paint. Also ideas borrowed from physics "quantum mechanics" and "string theory" are integrated into the work.

For almost three decades Sharon Steuer has pioneered the merging of traditional and digital art forms. Sharon's recent work weaves together her oil paintings, drawings, digital paintings, photographs, and personal artifacts to explore and reflect fragmented memory. Awards for her artwork include the national Faber Birren Color Award, a Windsor Newton Painting award, and a Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her studio is in the 60-artist building Workspace Limited, studio 14a, 2150 Folsom Street (between 17th and 18th).

Sharon is also is an author who teaches how to use digital tools to create artwork in books (The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Books, Creative Thinking in Photoshop), videos (lynda.com/SharonSteuer), and as a regular contributor CreativePro.com.

This year I will be featuring images from a new body of work, still in process. These are mixed media pieces on both canvas and water color paper incorporating multiple mediums including acryllic, ink, spray paint and water color as well as my own photography, found images,objects and text.The work is evocative and intended to provoke the imagination of the viewer. I hope you will join me for the launch of this new work!

Bio: Scientist by education, programmer by trade, artist by necessity, Mr Rogers has been creating art for most of his life. After spending 15 years as a photographer, both journalistic and artistic, he put away his camera in 2000 in favor of building, painting and creating art featuring Bunnymatic and friends. These characters have served as subject matter and inspiration for Mr Rogers to experiment with different media (including paint on canvas, wood sculpture, collage, recycled material constructions and more).

Most recently he's been focused on wall hanging sculptural pieces with wood, paint and other recycled materials.  

My recent paintings are driven by process and improvisation. My initial compositions are informed by photographs of cellular or satellite images chosen for their color and complexity, but I depart from the source imagery as a a painting takes on a life of its own. Building upon material phenomena and accident, I consciously incorporate unpredictable elements into the work. In balancing spontaneous mark making and drips with controlled calligraphic line, I create structure and beauty from chaos and uncertainty.

My palette is connotative, evoking states that range from violent transformation to calm serenity. Building layer upon layer of color produces atmospheric depth that reinforces these sensations by implying history and location.

Partly a meditation on light and form within macroscopic and microscopic worlds, my work is an intuitive reaction to the process of painting itself: an inward search for presence and immediacy.