Steve Mizel Where color moves and stories begin.

Each work touches on themes of time, memory, and emotion. I strive to ensure that every piece carries two fundamental characteristics: spirit and movement.

By spirit, I mean that each work tells an interesting story—but not the entire story. When a piece is successful, it engages the viewer, who completes the narrative or invents their own through an ongoing, nonverbal conversation with the work.

When I am working on a painting or monotype, I am drawn to the physical process itself: moving paint or ink across the canvas or plate, pushing it forward, pulling it back, selectively removing it, and blending it so that each color embraces its neighboring colors. When things go well, the colors begin to float above the foundational forms.

In the end, the work is alive. Everything is in motion. Everything becomes possible.