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Steve StorzSteve Storz, originally from the industrial Gulf town of Texas City, recalls his first awakenings as an artist when, at age 5, he picked up a rusted spring from the alleyway behind his parent’s home. The spring started a collection in a junk drawer in his normally immaculate room. By the time he had entered early adulthood, his first electro-mechanical sculptures, monster heads with moving mouths and lights in their entrails, had been shown in the first science fiction convention in Eugene, Oregon, where most of his ordinary schooling occurred. For about 15 years he maintained a cavernous studio in a San Jose cannery left over from the 1930’s. The nearby Silicon Valley became a mountainous supply of electronics and cast-off industrial materials. His work included large scale installations for haunted houses, night clubs, film and performance-art companies, electronic and steel sculptures, avant-garde music, the World’s Largest Top Hat, and two dimensional works. He currently lives in Taos, New Mexico, where he makes drawings and the steel and electronic sculptures. Some are welded fine art constructions resembling ancient-futuristic architecture, while another line are Grunge Machines made of mechanical VCR and answering machine scraps that he refers to as “the teeth of darkness melted down to a waxy smear.”Steve works with an art group that meets monthly called the ReconstruXion Society. Current activities can be found at his web site: www.storzart.com He shows periodically in New Mexico and across the United States and markets most of his work to individual collectors. |
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