Steven Arnold populates his elaborate tableaux with the objects and individuals of mankind’s collective cultural memory: figures from a Caravaggio painting; a dancer seen in a Cecil Beaton photograph; plastic swans from a Woolworth’s Five and Dime Store. Through the artist’s haunted eyes these images and artifacts are seen new again, with humor, melancholy, wit, sadness and above all, great artistry.
twelvetrees press september 1993 11 x 11 inches 45 full page halftones 96 pages
