I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next. — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the experience of… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio,… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it. — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
“On Becoming a Poet in the 1950s" There was love and there was trees. Either you could stay inside and probe your emotions or… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
