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 Steve has received a prestigious grant from the Princeton Area Community Foundation: "The Thomas George Emerging Artist Fund," awarded annually to a local young artist for living and travel expenses.
Steve will be graduating from The College of New Jersey on Friday, May 16 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art.
Steve Buzash is a professional artist who has decided to return to school. He is currently an undergraduate student in the Fine Arts department at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.
He has been painting since 1998 and works with acrylic paint and mixed media. His subjects range from portraits to figures to landscapes to illustrations to abstract design. Steve is a master of color and his paintings exude beauty, strength, and intensity.
He is currently teaching three weekly art classes to young children. These classes are organized by the Montgomery Center for the Arts in Skillman, NJ, where Steve works. This past summer he taught art to young children at the MCA summer camp program.
Steve held solo exhibitions in March and October, 2006. These exhibitions include jazz piano (performed by Tara), gourmet catering, and discussion about the art with audience involvement. Steve enjoys speaking with viewers about his paintings in order to convey his own thoughts and to discover their interpretations.
His paintings have appeared in several juried exhibitions. In 2000, The Washington Post called one of Steve's works "a swirling, surreal portrait in bile colors... as spooky as the best outsider art."
Steve has studied with internationally known Hungarian painter Sy Mohr. Among his influences, Steve counts Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Pollock, Duccio, Simone Martini, Fra Angelico, David, and TCNJ student Diane Polchinski. Some of his favorite paintings include Van Gogh's "The Sewer," Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus," Simone Martini's "The Annunciation," Da Vinci's "Last Supper," Duccio's "Maesta Altarpiece," and Monet's "Footbridge" paintings after 1920.
For several years, Steve has worked and volunteered at local art galleries including the Montgomery Center for the Arts and the American Hungarian Heritage Center in New Brunswick, NJ. His work for these galleries includes hanging shows, preparing installments, and speaking to viewers about the art.
His career has taken him down many diverse paths including printing, landscape work, nursing, and the Army.
Steve was a collegiate soccer and track athlete and now enjoys various indoor and outdoor sports. He also appreciates poetry and history.
IN STEVE'S WORDS
"My style would be considered colorful, essential, honest, inspirational, abstract-ish, loose, emotional, spontaneous. I mix up colors that I absolutely love first, and then I look to the canvas where to put it. Any leftover paint is used to begin a new canvas to create interlocking pieces."
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