Steve Zolin

Steve Zolin continues to study the formal basics of art to develop his visual and written theory on perspective. Cityscapes, painting, drawing and figuration lead to his impressive sculpture, which forms a collision of dimensions in representational space. Rather than relying on the canonical vanishing point, Zolin alludes to infinite vanishing points of reality. Zolin literally draws sculptural works by altering traditional composition. The result renders buzzing angulations of city space installed overhead or in public space.

Beginning with a sketchbook and grease pencil, Zolin sketches his perspective en plein air. Brilliant color is added with oil pastel to highlight architectural features of his cityscapes. Determining the artist’s view of his space, Zolin creates hanging sculptures on painted flashing, hard plastic board, plastic shaped by wire and more. His three dimensional work remains the most conclusive proof of curved perspective’s existence.

Zolin (born in West Orange, NJ) earned his BFA in Painting and minors in the History of Art and Archaeology from Washington University in 1994 after attending courses through Rhode Island School of Design, RI, and Montclair State College, NJ. Following fieldwork at Colorado College in Archaeology and time spent in Santa Fe, NM, he received his MFA in Painting and Sculpture through a fellowship from the School of Art and Dance at Florida State University, FL, in 2005.

Zolin has shown nationally, is included in significant private collection and not only is the topic of art publication but also plans to write a thesis further explicating his view of circular perspective and delineating its historical presence.