Steven Jordan-Cohen - "Renk Personal Property, 2024"
Artwork Title, Year: Renk Personal Property, 2024
Medium: Spray paint and acrylic paint
Dimensions as Exhibited: 1’x1’6”
Price: 350$
Artist Bio: Emergning talent Steven Jordan-Cohen has been focused on visual artforms since before he was a young student at California High School of the Arts, also the site of a recent group exhibit containing his work. Now a student of Fine Arts at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, he has ample opportunity to make and market his works to a variety of individual buyers across the country. In addition to more traditional fine arts, in 2023 he produced a limited-edition line of shirts under the name of “Infernal.” Though having travelled cross country in search of graffiti over the years, he still prefers the urban confines of his life-long neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles.
Artist Statement: Style writing has always intrigued me. The smooth or sharp, and sometimes surprising connections between the letters. The characters have personalities like people. Some are large and bold. Others, thin or even barely visible—weak-looking. In the end, the slashes, strokes, and lines of all sizes tell the story of something beautiful that came from nothing.
I express myself through painting, including my favorite, a form of street art I translate onto a variety of mediums. Spray paint on urban canvases such as abandoned street signs and found metal scraps. Or even traditional acrylic paint on canvas.
I use words to create an image in the viewer’s mind. It’s a confluence of writing and freedom of speech. It’s a story in vibrant color that hopefully draws the viewer in.
It’s a lot of things, but it’s not always obvious.
Graffiti is a strong part of Los Angeles culture, yet it isn’t well represented beyond the vibrant, but transient aesthetic found on bridge piers and obscured street signs. My work attempts to capture those same fleeting urban values and translate them onto something of greater permanence.
My pieces do not overlook the irony, of course, that the removal of an unkempt urban style to the clean and warm confines of our homes and galleries is perhaps oxymoronic. However, the juxtaposition itself reminds us to expect the unexpected, especially the sometimes-tenuous boundaries between personal and public spaces.
Artwork Title, Year: Renk Personal Property, 2024
Medium: Spray paint and acrylic paint
Dimensions as Exhibited: 1’x1’6”
Price: 350$
Artist Bio: Emergning talent Steven Jordan-Cohen has been focused on visual artforms since before he was a young student at California High School of the Arts, also the site of a recent group exhibit containing his work. Now a student of Fine Arts at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, he has ample opportunity to make and market his works to a variety of individual buyers across the country. In addition to more traditional fine arts, in 2023 he produced a limited-edition line of shirts under the name of “Infernal.” Though having travelled cross country in search of graffiti over the years, he still prefers the urban confines of his life-long neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles.
Artist Statement: Style writing has always intrigued me. The smooth or sharp, and sometimes surprising connections between the letters. The characters have personalities like people. Some are large and bold. Others, thin or even barely visible—weak-looking. In the end, the slashes, strokes, and lines of all sizes tell the story of something beautiful that came from nothing.
I express myself through painting, including my favorite, a form of street art I translate onto a variety of mediums. Spray paint on urban canvases such as abandoned street signs and found metal scraps. Or even traditional acrylic paint on canvas.
I use words to create an image in the viewer’s mind. It’s a confluence of writing and freedom of speech. It’s a story in vibrant color that hopefully draws the viewer in.
It’s a lot of things, but it’s not always obvious.
Graffiti is a strong part of Los Angeles culture, yet it isn’t well represented beyond the vibrant, but transient aesthetic found on bridge piers and obscured street signs. My work attempts to capture those same fleeting urban values and translate them onto something of greater permanence.
My pieces do not overlook the irony, of course, that the removal of an unkempt urban style to the clean and warm confines of our homes and galleries is perhaps oxymoronic. However, the juxtaposition itself reminds us to expect the unexpected, especially the sometimes-tenuous boundaries between personal and public spaces.
Artwork Title, Year: Renk Personal Property, 2024
Medium: Spray paint and acrylic paint
Dimensions as Exhibited: 1’x1’6”
Price: 350$
Artist Bio: Emergning talent Steven Jordan-Cohen has been focused on visual artforms since before he was a young student at California High School of the Arts, also the site of a recent group exhibit containing his work. Now a student of Fine Arts at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, he has ample opportunity to make and market his works to a variety of individual buyers across the country. In addition to more traditional fine arts, in 2023 he produced a limited-edition line of shirts under the name of “Infernal.” Though having travelled cross country in search of graffiti over the years, he still prefers the urban confines of his life-long neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles.
Artist Statement: Style writing has always intrigued me. The smooth or sharp, and sometimes surprising connections between the letters. The characters have personalities like people. Some are large and bold. Others, thin or even barely visible—weak-looking. In the end, the slashes, strokes, and lines of all sizes tell the story of something beautiful that came from nothing.
I express myself through painting, including my favorite, a form of street art I translate onto a variety of mediums. Spray paint on urban canvases such as abandoned street signs and found metal scraps. Or even traditional acrylic paint on canvas.
I use words to create an image in the viewer’s mind. It’s a confluence of writing and freedom of speech. It’s a story in vibrant color that hopefully draws the viewer in.
It’s a lot of things, but it’s not always obvious.
Graffiti is a strong part of Los Angeles culture, yet it isn’t well represented beyond the vibrant, but transient aesthetic found on bridge piers and obscured street signs. My work attempts to capture those same fleeting urban values and translate them onto something of greater permanence.
My pieces do not overlook the irony, of course, that the removal of an unkempt urban style to the clean and warm confines of our homes and galleries is perhaps oxymoronic. However, the juxtaposition itself reminds us to expect the unexpected, especially the sometimes-tenuous boundaries between personal and public spaces.