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I was educated in art, BFA U Texas 1980, and worked on a MFA, U Houston 1982, but never finished.  Why should  that matter?  Because of my education in art, my work has a connection to the study of art history and the craft of making it.  Many of my artworks have meaning behind them.  What my work is not, is fashionable, nor driven by the art market, nor is it  what most art galleries want to show.  

 

As further context to show, is that  my artworks largely coalesced along-with social patterns born out of changing times in the 1960's.  My works are a fusion, as most art is, out of what came before and is also influenced my contemporaries.  The style of my works are a mashup ranging from El Greco, to Van Gogh to Pollack and abstract impressionism,  new age post modernisms.    

 

I was born in the 1950s. My family were among the atomic bomb makers.  I grew up with the collective consciousness implications to living in world which likely would be destroyed by such horriffic weapons should they be utilized.  Why does this matter.?  Context for how and why I became an antiwar advocate/activist.  A re-occurring theme with my works are  a conscious effort to exposing such an insane and shortsighted system which devotes so much money energy to our military industrial complex.  

 

There was a brief time in the 1960s when our society realized the machinications behind continued wars was a dead end narrative, and therefor sought to change the trajectory.  That narrative was assassinated along-with the ideologies which sought to change the march to total destruction by use of nuclear weapons.     

 

We fund our own ultimate demise while at the same time ignore the impact these very systems  have on our ecosystems.  We are like a monkey on a tree branch with a saw,  cutting the very branch upon which he sits.  IF you see it, one cannot just ignore the path off the cliff without saying something.  War is a linear path to our awn demise.  Why do we spend so much time devoted to destruction of perceived,  manufactured and  or ideological enemies,  as to cause destruction of our very civilization?   

 

Fact of the matter is we all came from the same source branch, and we are all related by history,  by DNA,  and by our collective unconscious mixing relationships.  Those "enemies"  are our relatives and fact of the matter is we need each other if we ever intend to reach a harmonious state. 

 

And that my friend, is why you will not often see my art hanging in the local galleries.  My job as an artist is to report in visual terms the things I see,  not to try and match the curtains, nor promote the latest money making gidget.  

 

Therefore I are, and my artworks be.  These particular works range from the 1970's up to current.  Thanks you for taking the time to view them.  I hope they inspire you in some way and move you into taking some action to help making a better world.  I suppose that is the theme of my works, exposing the ugly into the light so we can make this world a better place.  Peace. 

-Steven Frank Gary

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