BIO: Steve Coron

BACKGROUND:

I was born in the wild and rugged landscape of nothern Michigan, and grew with a strong and lasting connection to water, land, and an attraction to natural beauty. As a child, and through adolescence, I was involved in the artist process through art classes and involvement in local arts organizations. I began teaching art at the age sixteen. My interest in studying art took me to the Detroit area, earning a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Eastern Michigan University, with certification in Visual Art Education. My areas of concentration included sculpture, drawing and painting, and photography. Currently I study photographic processes at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI. I am head of the Visual Arts Department at Community High School in Ann Arbor, MI., where I teach courses in photography, digital imaging, drawing and painting, multi-media, and Italian Art and Culture. I am owner and operator of Format Framing and Gallery with my wife Karie. We live near Ann Arbor with our two children and many pets.

CURRENT WORK:

My recent work is based on our perception of landscape, environments, places, and formal properties of surface, color, patterns, textures, marks, graffiti, and notions of beauty. I construct my images in panoramic, linear orientations while intending to replicate our perceptual and visual patterns. I enhance and isolate areas, patterns, textures, alternate views, surface marks, human violation and ebelishments, while challenging the viewer to examine various ways of seeing and perceiving.

While driving, traveling walking, I capture single images, which I arrange in a digital collage format in the studio. I print my own images on Epson paper, with archival inks.

COLLECTIONS:

University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI.
St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI.
Bank of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI.
Benz Insurance Inc., Ann Arbor, MI.
Dr. and Mrs. Geoffry Jacquez