Steve Breerwood

Biography

Steve Breerwood has exhibited his art in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Florida, New York, Georgia and Germany. He won third place in the 2007-08 Seven State Biennial, first place in the Art Interview Sixth International Online Artist Competition and has had his work published in Tallahassee Magazine and Tallahassee Democrat. He was the recipient of an Artist Enhancement Grant from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.

Before joining the USAO faculty in 2007, he served as an adjunct faculty and graduate teacher of record at Florida State University, and as an art tutor at Nicholls State University. He has presented visiting artist lectures at Nicholls State University and Florida State University.

"My work is most often about human nature and the human experience in the modern context. There’s also the reoccurring theme of people dealing with their space," Breerwood says in his artist statement.

"The Human Resources series could be described as modern worker genre paintings. These images were compiled from memories of my own experiences working for two years at a Wal-Mart Supercenter.

"My intention was to create pictures that are at the same time personal and universal, timeless and contemporary. The figural compositions elude to classic worker genre paintings of the 19th and early 20th centuries in order to affirm the lingering presence of the working poor in modernized society. The corporation appears in these paintings only through inanimate forms such as security cameras, printed displays, and merchandise."

Education

M.F.A., Painting and Drawing, Florida State University, 2006 
B.A., Painting and Photography, Nicholls State University, 2002