Steven Torrisi

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City: Livingston
Country: United States

Joined: Nov 2007

Playing the starving artist, I become an observer of life rather than its participant. Making the cafe (well, Starbucks anyway) my studio where the simple beauty and pleasures taken for granted congregate, fascinates and drives me, subject-wise, not to mention attracts the curiosity and admirers among patrons and staff. Women epitomize that philosophy. Portrait or figurative, before I draw, my models have to have the look of the every-woman, what I call the face. When I can’t find the face my focus not mood swings; triptychs, still-life, and now t-shirts being the latest itch.

Lines, darkness, light — defines and confines these depiction’s much like life. How each plays off the other dominates my little gray cells where imagination and possibility await realization or frustration. Simple graphite and white charcoal sells this artist’s conundrum nicely. Two-tone constraints does wonders for stoking creativity and difficulty, a perception shaded by the Dürer grid method but an absolute rule broken when circumstance and effect demands color’s power absolutely. Sticking with the Renaissance masters, I don’t care for ultra-realistic fine pencil work. Impressive, but I want my scribbles looking like drawings not faux photographs. Drawing inside and outside the box, subtle cross-hatching affords enough detail reproduction to awe not mislead the senses.

So if you live in the Livingston/Madison/Summit/Millburn New Jersey area respectively stop by and say hi) on the weekends (friday:Madison 7-10pm/saturday: Millburn: 2:30-4:30pm/ Summit: 5:00-7:30pm/Madison: 8-9:30pm/Livingston: 10-11:30pm): sunday: Livingston: 11:30-2:30pm/Summit: 3:00-500pm/Madison: 5:30-7:30pm)

And if you see anything that tickles your fancy, help a starving artist and go for it…buy something. An expanded line of double-sided t-shirts are available at http://www.printfection.com/thecornerartist

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