Steve Kuzma studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York City. He graduated with honors from Parsons and was awarded fellowships to study overseas in Sienna, Italy and Paris, France.

During his 12-year New York City illustration career, art directors were particularly fond of his work as it incorporated a strong sense of color and motion, reflecting Steve’s strong interest in sports and his great love of the outdoors. The New York Times, New York Marathon, and Sport Monday commissioned his artwork and it has been featured in numerous publications including: Harper Collins “Sports Pages” (children’s book featured on Reading Rainbow) Sport Magazine, Time, Art Direction Magazine, Backpacker, and Boating.

Steve’s work has been used internationally to most notably commemorate the Sarajevo Olympics and the 1986 World Cup Soccer events in his extensive travels overseas and throughout the continental United States,

Steve has developed a growing connection to nature and is profoundly inspired by beauty. This love and appreciation of nature, coupled with his deeply spiritual art, form the foundation of his unique style and sublime message. A strong sense of color and a free-flowing painterly method blend with a masterful use of layering techniques, to provide the depth and dimension inherent to all of his paintings. Steve works professionally in the areas of illustration, graphic design and advertising.

He further accepts commissions and creates murals. Often sought after to lecture on his experimental painting techniques, he conducts various workshops and teaches. Active in many art organizations, Steve continues to show in both group and solo exhibitions. He is represented in permanent, private, corporate and museum collections. Steve maintains studios in Ventnor City and Bridgeton (New Jersey). www.stevekuzma.comteve Kuzma Artist Vision Statement

My aspiration as an artist is to connect to positive influences and to share the positive connection, via painting, with the viewer. My background as a New York-trained (Parsons) artist, and within the American contemporary impressionist style, gives me leeway to interpret the world exactly as I see it. All genres can convey the positive message. In florals, there is joy. In landscapes and seascapes, there is a feeling of openness, or of expansion of consciousness. In sports-related and mystical paintings, there is the dignity and nobility of the human spirit. My work comes from a place of clarity, simplicity, study, and meditation. Painting becomes an answer to a prayer, or a solution for a creative problem. Maximizing the amount of information and inspiration in the simplest way, with the guidance of meditation, the paintings document my full artistic and spiritual process and leave grace behind for the viewer to imbibe freely.