Steven Corsano

The artist Steven Corsano blends abstract shapes and dreamy yet refined poetry with childlike words and images resulting in mixed-media works that are startling in both their innocence and their complexity. Declaring that "honoring the fidelity of the soul" is at the core of his approach to making art, Corsano makes works on paper like Start with a Faucet, where bright and fanciful narrative abstractions respond to the natural landscape, accompanied by a poem. In another series, Everyman's Daughter, marks of grey, white, and black are made on brown paper and then mixed with handwritten or typewritten words that tell the story of a girl who seems to have created the works. "It's exciting how the images transform," Corsano says, "like veils being lifted back to reveal what's true, truer, and truest." He has had exhibitions at Broome Street Gallery and Galleri Urbane, among venues.