ginstevens

Matthew J Gardocki City: Los Angeles State: California Country: US  ginstevens RSS Feed ginstevens Personal Website		View works by this artist
Biography
Abandoned on the steps of a Baptist Church in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Gin Stevens Art career was born. Gin has been influenced by the deep southern culture that had surrounded him at an early age. Upon turning seventeen he took the Greyhound north for Chicago carrying with him dreams of enrolling at The Art Institute of Chicago. Where he soon found out that school was not for him and opted for the punk rock theory of doing it yourself. His work has echoes of certain literary and musical archetypes: the visionaries and hucksters that populate Flannery O? Connor?s Gothic southern landscape or the fevered imaginations that drive Faulkner?s characters, along with the songs of early Delta Blues musicians such as Charley Patton or Son House. The work is done all on scratchboard a primitive style of etching. Here he captures the mood of the dark and mysterious history of the south with haunting beauty. Gin now resides in Los Angeles where he has been creating work for private commission, album covers, and rock posters on top of also showing his art over the past several years at galleries in and around Los Angeles.