Steven Arcella
Steven Arcella is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography and sculpture. His work explores concepts of time, consciousness, and memory. Arcella graduated with a BFA from the Cooper Union in 1989. He has worked as a furniture and product designer and has developed a proprietary printing process for the building materials industry. He enjoys facilitating global workshops on the techniques of analogue photography, most recently with the Penembra Foundation at VCU’s QATAR Tasmeem Doha, Bi-Annual conference.
AWARDS
AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers
The Type Directors Club: TDC 46 Typographic Excellence
NJ Governor’s Award for Volunteerism
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work as an interdisciplinary artist and designer allows me the ability to collaborate with artists, designers, film makers, musicians, architects, and engineers.
Light, time, perception, and memory are reoccurring themes running throughout my work. We move through space and time seemingly seamless but what are our memories? What is our vision? Fracture, composite interpolated bits reconfigured into a rendition of what we choose to accept as reality. We see the continuous beach rather than the individual grains of sand.
To see it all as one, all at once
To live all the entanglements
All the waveforms
All realities at the same time
All possible pasts, presents, and futures collapsed as one expression