Steve Sas Schwartz / sAsArT / Contemporary Painting & Sculpture

Steve Sas Schwartz Podcast — Episode 11, The Sentinels Series Steve Sas Schwartz Download Excited to drop the 11th Episode of the Steve Sas Schwartz Podcast. In this installment I discuss my Sentinels series from 2015 - 2019. The Sentinels are about alchemical magic, using prosaic materials and converting them to something utterly different, hopefully riveting. The concept, in essence, is product...

The Timemarkers are shaped canvas paintings, as they say, although canvas is a stretch applied to these, I did from 1987-1993. They are actually more like relief paintings, or dioramas, but we can get into that later. These pieces were based upon my sense of inherited history, how we stand on the shoulders or are crushed by the feet of what came before us, individually and as a culture. They are i...

Welcome to the 9th episode of the Steve Sas Schwartz Podcast (more notes from the underground). Tonight I talk about - or rather complain, ha - about the LA art scene, but then take a deep dive into my Wagon Wheel Mandala, an upgraded, intensely painted vintage wagon wheel.

Steve Sas Schwartz Podcast -- Episode 8, The NItrocels Series Steve Sas Schwartz Download Welcome to the Steve Sas Schwartz Podcast, where we discuss all things related to contemporary art. In Episode 8, I talk about what I call my Nitrocels, a cool word that describes this series of paintings and references the materials used. This may be a two-parter, but loosely, these paintings reflect my inte...

a bit before covid i was fortunate enough to go to Africa and do philanthropic work w hope chest international. my role was the social media guy, but i ended up drawing portraits of swaziland aids and civil war orphans, and rwandan genocide survivors. i would draw them and give them the drawings, and in some cases it was collaborative and the kids colored them in. it was incredibly satisfying. the...

In this installment I discuss my series of figure-based paintings, the Black Holes series. These are large-scaled, textured paintings of silhouetted figures immersed in abstracted environments. Here I share my thought and development process, and the why. Please enjoy, subscribe and share! Thank you so much, Steve

Steve Sas Schwartz Podcast -- Episode 6, in discussion with Holden Fuller, Contemporary Painter In this installment, Holden Fuller, contemporary painter , joins us for an in depth chat about his work. Holden's work inhabits a space that combines abstract shapes and process with figurative components parsed from today's world. Enjoy! Episode 6 -- Holden Fuller, contemporary painter Steve Sas Schwar...

In Episode 5 of The Steve Sas Schwartz Podcast I discuss my Soul Kitchen series. This is a conceptual / sculptural series loosely based upon the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi, where broken crockery is repaired with gold leaf, tracing the history of the break and fix. For those that don't know, I work in different genres at the same time, abstract, figurative, and conceptual. This is the conceptua...

Today i'm going to talk about my blister pack paintings, what they're about, why I do them, compulsion and components.

In this episode we discuss many facets of Cybele Rowe’s work.

In this podcast I discuss my Oar pieces, which are part of the Instruments of Agency series. These are antique wooden oars striped vigorously, which I display singly or with others, leaning floor-to-wall or hung on walls, many installation options. I also cart them around to openings, museums, and walking around downtown LA. I began the 'walking staff' kinda concept after discovering this artist A...

In this inaugural episode Steve introduces the podcast and explains why he's doing it, then jumps right in to discussing his current work in a compelling manner.