Eduardo Benedeto,
Colin Burns,
Daniel Edwards,
Steve Ellis,
Johnny Fenix,
Steven Gagnon,
Jason Douglas Griffin,
David Hochbaum,
Justin Kirchoff,
Martina Kubinyi,
Travis Lindquist,
Brian Leo
GoldMine ShitHouse,
David Stoupakis,
David Tree,
Kevin Willis






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Steve Ellis is a long time East Village / Lower East Side, New York artist. Mr. Ellis’s work spans the globe of cultural symbolism in a dynamic and bold realistic painting style. By blending his own personal experiences and popular culture, Steve takes a dada approach to subverting pop iconography. The “Disposable Lighter Series”, all 6’ x 2’ oil paintings of butane lighters wrapped in various sticker packaging, are fire breathing idols of a disposable culture. Inspired by a personal experience in a car accident the “Crashed Car Series” depict cars in various states of post accident condition. The paintings are subversive evidence to survival stories and symbols of a lifestyle ethic. Other series include broken heels, knives, tv sets, and a variety of storytelling objects he fetishizes in oil paint.

Ellis has appeared in galleries in near every corner of New York including American Fine Arts, Brooklyn Front, Clampart, Clayton’s Outlaw Art Gallery, CBGB’s Gallery, Basement A.I.R.E.. He has been curated by Gracie Mansion, Anne Ellegood, and Colin de Land and has work in the collections of Harvard Art Appreciation Group, Elton John, Mistress Formika and many others. He is currently teaching painting at the School of Visual Arts.