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Steven Csorba is known for his paintings of sports legends like Wayne Gretzky and Muhammad Ali and his commemorative works celebrating historical events like the Olympic Games, and famous teams like Notre Dame Football. You can find his paintings in the Natio nal Art Museum of Sports, and in other prominent public and private collections. He is a longtime Edmontonian who has devoted countless hours of community service and who campaigns to encourage others to become involved in the lives of Edmonton children.
In 2003, Steven was diagnosed with cancer and went through 14 hours of surgery, seven weeks of radiation treatments, and a full year of recuperation. As part of his cure, he created art. It helped him transcend the experience. Since his recovery, he’s created over 60 new pieces that express both a powerful energy, as well as the heroic struggle he went through. They’re like nothing he’s ever done before. There’s an energy — reflecting a glorious celebration of life — that seems to radiate from within each painting.
Celebrating Rotary's 100 years of service, Csorba has donated the use of one of these paintings called ‘Inner Peace’ as a symbol of success in improving lives, in building understanding and in fostering peace around the globe. |
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Artists Technique :
Csorba’s NeoPopArt paintings take inspiration from Andy Warhol but offer much more texture and layering through an overload technique inspired by American Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg and outsider artist Thornton Dial Sr. Csorba’s use and experimentation with visual layering by overlapping numerous imaged sheets of clear vinyl and acrylic give his NeoPopArt paintings a very distinct 3-dimensional effect on a flat surface.
The energy lies within the surface and comes out at you taking on the appearance of a plugged in liquid plasma screen – with an organic painterly feel. The colours seem to float in the suspended layers of the flat modernist picture space and the eye is fooled into believing that the art is plugged in when it is not. He is able to hold the viewer’s attention though the pure physical aspect of the art.
Steven “plays” with the following materials.
- Acrylic
- Mixed Media
- Technology
- Unique Substrates
- Plexiglass
- Epoxy
- Found Objects
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