STEVEN DALUZ

Steven DaLuz (b. 1953) is known for figurative works and imagined landscapes, using both encaustic, and a process he devised with metal leaf, oil, and mixed media. Born in Hanford, California, Steve retired from the Air Force after living 14 years abroad. He completed a BA degree in Social Psychology, and an MA degree in Management, before earning a BFA from UTSA in 2003. Identified as a “contemporary Luminist” on Wikipedia, his work is in private and corporate collections in 36 States and overseas. He has exhibited internationally and has been published in art books, and magazines, such as Art in America, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, The Huffington Post, Encaustic Art, Professional Artist, the International Drawing Annual, and The Artists. He is a frequent guest curator for Poets Artists magazine, and digitally-stored copies of nine of his paintings are scheduled to be launched to the surface of the Moon in 2022 and 2023. A finalist for the 2015 Hunting Art Prize, Best of Show in the Bold Brush painting competition in 2018, and listed in Buzzfeed’s “100 Figurative Oil Painters Working Right Now (2020)”, DaLuz is President of the Board of Directors for the Coppini Academy of Fine Art and he is represented by AnArte Gallery in San Antonio, Texas.

I strive to evoke a sense of mystery and spirituality in my work, whether the subject is inspired by a literal place, an imagined landscape, or the figure. While I share a similar sensibility with 19th-century luminism, I primarily focus on the sublime, and the expressive beauty of nature and humanity. -Steven DaLuz

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