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Steve Storz
Creative Consultant, Gallery Consultant, Artist
Steve Storz PO Box 1213 El Prado, NM 87529 575-751-0642 steve@storzart.com
Exhibitions (Partial List)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Gold Leaf Gallery, group show, steel and electronic sculpture December 2008
Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Tentacles", Goldleaf Gallery solo show, October 2008
bronze sculpture, drawings, paintings
Taos, New Mexico, Parks II Gallery, group show, September 2007
Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Retreat", Goldleaf Gallery group show October 2007
Taos, New Mexico, Wisdom Cup Gallery, Cinco de Mayo May, 2006
Group show. mixed media sculpture- Grunge Machines
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Wired Glass Gallery, “Scary Art Horrors” October 2005
Two Person show with Jared Kohn. Mixed media sculpture, packaged Halloween themed items
Taos, New Mexico T.C.Lillick Studio, “Some of the Parts, The Sum of the Parts” May 2004
Two person show with T.C.Lillick. Mixed media electronic sculpture and drawings
Taos, New Mexico Taos Talking Picture Festival “ Embrace” April 2002
Independent short film using multi-media (film, video, stop motion, CGI)
Taos, New Mexico Pure Gallery. “Embrace” World Premiere. October 2002
Independent short film using multi-media (film, video, stop motion, CGI)
Taos, New Mexico Pure Gallery. “Pure Voyeur” May 2001
Group show Electronic sculpture/ installation w/original sound
Taos, New Mexico Studio. “Esoteric Erotic” August 2000
Group show. Electronic sculpture.
Taos, New Mexico Studio. “ Acts of Senseless Art” May 2000
One man show. Steel and electronic sculpture.
Taos, New Mexico “Taos: The Next Generation” curated by David Witt March 1998
Group show. Steel and Electronic Sculpture
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico Art Lab, “The Haunted Carnival” October 1997
Curator/ participant group show. Sculpture installation, performance art.
Oakland, California Head Royce School. “Recent Works” November 1997
One man show.Steel and electronic sculpture, sculpture demonstration classes for students.
Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn Water Front Coalition. “Pier Show” April 1997
Group show. Steel and electronic sculpture.
San Jose, California San Jose Institute of Contemporary art. “14th Annual Invitation Valentine Exh.” Group show. Steel and electronic sculpture February 1996
New Orleans, Louisiana Siggraph 96 “Digital Bayou” August 1996
One man show. Steel and electronic sculpture.
Eugene, Oregon Maude Kerns Art Center. “Essence” May 1996
Group show. Steel and electronic sculpture.
San Jose, California ESQ Business Center. “Hades Ventilators” June 1995
One man show. Steel and electronic sculpture
A list of other shows dating back to 1981 is available upon request.
Steve Storz, born in 1960, originally from the industrial Gulf town of Texas
City, recalls his first
awakenings as an artist when he picked up a rusted spring from the alleyway
behinds his parent’s home. The spring started a collection in a junk drawer
in his, normally, immaculate room. By the time he had entered early adulthood,
his first electro-mechanical sculptures, monster heads with moving mouths and lights in their entrails, had been shown in the first science fiction convention in Eugene, Oregon where most of his ordinary schooling occurred. During the 1980's and 90's he maintained a cavernous studio in a San Jose cannery left over
from the 1930s. The nearby Silicon Valley became a mountainous supply of
electronics and cast-off industrial materials that became reshaped and combined into mechanical and electronic sculptures inspired by mad scientist oddness. His work included large scale installations for haunted houses, night clubs, film and performance-art
companies, electronic and steel sculptures, avant-garde music, the World's
Largest Top Hat and drawings.
He currently lives in Taos, New Mexico where he concentrates on the steel and electronic
sculptures, constructions resembling ancient-futuristic architecture,
while another line are Grunge Machines made of mechanical VCR and answering
machine scraps, that he refers to as “the teeth of darkness melted down
to a waxy smear”. Drawings in graphite, ink and oil pastel continue to be a basis for much of Steve's work and bronze sculptures are being cast of his mixed media materials resulting in permanent forms of haunting strangeness and detailed textures.
awakenings as an artist when he picked up a rusted spring from the alleyway
behinds his parent’s home. The spring started a collection in a junk drawer
in his, normally, immaculate room. By the time he had entered early adulthood,
his first electro-mechanical sculptures, monster heads with moving mouths and lights in their entrails, had been shown in the first science fiction convention in Eugene, Oregon where most of his ordinary schooling occurred. During the 1980's and 90's he maintained a cavernous studio in a San Jose cannery left over
from the 1930s. The nearby Silicon Valley became a mountainous supply of
electronics and cast-off industrial materials that became reshaped and combined into mechanical and electronic sculptures inspired by mad scientist oddness. His work included large scale installations for haunted houses, night clubs, film and performance-art
companies, electronic and steel sculptures, avant-garde music, the World's
Largest Top Hat and drawings.
He currently lives in Taos, New Mexico where he concentrates on the steel and electronic
sculptures, constructions resembling ancient-futuristic architecture,
while another line are Grunge Machines made of mechanical VCR and answering
machine scraps, that he refers to as “the teeth of darkness melted down
to a waxy smear”. Drawings in graphite, ink and oil pastel continue to be a basis for much of Steve's work and bronze sculptures are being cast of his mixed media materials resulting in permanent forms of haunting strangeness and detailed textures.