Steve Pauley

Who is Steve Pauley?

Steve Pauley is an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Pauley earned his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. He received his MA from Marshall University, WV and BA from West Virginia State University.

Bridging sculpture with photography, printmaking, painting, installation art and performance art, Pauley’s work evolved organically from his profession as a headstone carver and as a photography teacher. He explores engraving anamorphic images into polished granite, which are then projected onto a wall by bouncing light off the stone’s surface. Fusing the time-intensive labor of hand engraving stone and the mechanical reproduction of photography, Pauley’s current investigations include projecting that image onto light sensitive paper in a darkroom without the use of a camera or film. Joining stone’s hard durability with the immateriality of light and shadow, Pauley creates work at once spiritual and worldly; tragic, hopeful and eternal.

His most recent exhibition Transcriptions in 2014 was at the Saint Mary the Virgin Gallery in Times Square, NY.