HEMPHILL is pleased to share an interview with Steven Cushner, Balancing Act for Home & Design Magazine by Tina Coplan.
His paintings, large-scale and muscular, bristle with grand motifs that appear to float on textured backgrounds. These central subjects often reference landscape painting, flattened and simplified into abstract patterns. Color struts from brashly singular to rainbow-hued, or may be absent entirely, replaced by swirling black lines and drips. Dominant subjects are typically shown in pairs or in a symmetrical or orderly progression illustrating raw energy in balance.