Biography
Pieced together from the fragments of the chaotic media landscape we all inhabit, Gorman's work is concerned with addressing the lapsed optimism and exhausted future promised by a space age that ended over thirty years ago. Cheated out of the utopian vision promised by technology, we now sleepwalk through a haze of media-induced numbness and sensory overload. The subsequent demand for psycho-pharmaceuticals, fueled by a pop psychology based on endless self-examination, has become the new frontier.

The pieces are first created as collages in a sketchbook using logos for drugs and other consumer products, diagrams from self-help books, photos of iconic media figures (such as Patty Hearst and Neil Armstrong) images pulled from the internet, as well as the artist's own drawings and photographs. The collages are then scanned and converted into digital images so that additional elements may be added or removed. They are ultimately printed on paper or canvas and subject to further intervention by hand. While striking a balance between the cool graphic design style of the 1950's and the more volatile abstract expressionist elements of the same era, (while evoking Saul Bass and Robert Rauschenberg), Gorman maps the move from outer to inner space.

Steve Gorman has exhibited in New York at White Columns and other alternative spaces, including several group shows organized by Kenny Schachter. Gorman currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007 Learned Helplessness, Milo gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Antidepressants, Antacids and the Space Program, AAA Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2001 Changes, Jeffrey, New York, NY (Curator: Paul Ha)
1999 Space 1999, Videoland Art Space, New York, NY
1999 Outer Boroughs. White Columns, New York, NY
1995 Either/Or, Flamingo East, New York, NY (Curator: Kenny Schachter)
1995 225 Days Follow, 5-20 46th Road, Long Island City, NY
1994 Art Amok, Common Boundaries Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
1994 Preexisting Condition, Puffin Room, New York, NY
1994 Fetish and Shaman, Indianapolis Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN
1993 Shooting Blanks, 81 Greene Street, New York, NY
1993 Pernod Liquid Art, Artnext Gallery, New York, NY
1993 For Sale, 81 Greene Street, New York, NY
1992 The Body Politic, 10-on-8, New York, NY
1992 Social Stigmas, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
1991 New Work/Group Show, Water Street Studio, New York, NY

AWARDS

1993 Pernod Liquid Art Program, Semi-Finalist (Judges: Carlo McCormick, Walter Robinson, Lisa Spellman and Mary Anne Staniszweski)

PUBLICATIONS

1998 Village Voice, May 12, "Voice Choices"
1995 Now Time #4, "God:Total Religion and Madness" Issue (reproduction)
1994 Barbara Desmond, "Preexisting Condition", www.newnyart.com, review
Leslie Seifert, "Art Attack", The Record, September 2, 1994, Review
Sharon Calhoun, Dialogue, March/April, Review
1993 Julia Muney-Moore, Fetish and Shaman, Indianapolis Art Institute, Catalog
Richard Johnson and Timothy McDarrah, Page Six, New York Post
Pernod Liquid Art, Exhibition Catalog, (reproduction)

EDUCATION

1985 BFA, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY