Artist Statement

Steve Javiel, born and raised in Los Angeles and now a resident of San Francisco

is a passionate artist devoted to offering his perspectives on what he believes

to be beautiful.

Most of his work is non-representational due to his attraction to color, shape,

form and texture. The textured walls, graffiti, and posters of the urban streets of

San Francisco have been a great influence on his own painting style.

His concepts will come into being through his own photography. With his own

images he is able to compose a preferred direction which he creates a small

study from and finalizes as larger works.

He strives to create richly textured surfaces using a variety of materials such as

oil paint, acrylic, pumice, joint compound, paper, liquin, galkyd and spray paint. In

this way, he is able to translated a multitude of urban textures into the painting

surfaces both canvas and wood paneling. Ultimately, his passion is to communicate

how one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

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Education

2008 | BFA /Painting, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 | “New Art ‘08”, Hotel Des Arts, San Francisco, CA

2008 | “Group Show”, Roe Restaurant, San Francisco, CA

2008 | “Group Show”, Artist x-change Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 | “Spring Show”, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

2008 | “Stories of the Urban City: Urban Inspired Art”, San Francisco, CA

2008 | “Three Man Show”, Littler Mendelson, San Francisco, CA

2008 | “Junior League Fundraiser”, San Francisco, CA

2007 | “The Diversity of Possibility”, 625 Sutter Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 | “Junior League Fundraiser”, San Francisco, CA

2007 | “Avant Grande Show”, Terra Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 | “Three Man Show”, Littler Mendelson, San Francisco, CA

2007 | “Caffe Trieste Group Show”, San Francisco, CA

2007 | “Spring Show”, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

2006 | “Mio Rio 610 GPS”, Varnish Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 | “Auction for Jimmy V. Cancer Foundation”, ESPN & X-Games, Los Angeles, CA

Articles

2006 | Academy of Art University Website: Jimmy V. Cancer Foundation,

ESPN & X-Games, Los Angeles, CA

Commissions

2005 | “Hollywood Urban Project”, Mural, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Private Collectors

Anna Vazquez, San Francisco, CA

Larry Elder, Charlotte, NC

Eric J. Vizcaino, Washington DC

Tom Wills, San Francisco, CA

Ray Orquiola, San Francisco, CA

Walt Jennifer J. San Francisco, CA

Kurt Bockes, San Francisco, CA

Ernest Bauer, San Francisco, CA

Kipley Bruketa, San Francisco, CA

Marcus Garcia, San Francisco, CA