I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active…

- Stephen Beal

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in dif…

- Stephen Beal

Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

- Stephen Beal

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 was a very …

- Stephen Beal

I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced …

- Stephen Beal

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

The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity…

- Stephen Beal

I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wa…

- Stephen Beal

My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the experience of working at an exciting art schoo…

- Stephen Beal