Steven Tassin

Steven Tassin is a Boulder-based artist whose works focus on the manipulation of forms and space to show relationships, contrast, and movement. His work often features meticulously planned painted or lasered lines and exposed paint. Series and areas of very thinly etched lines, either horizontal or vertical, are used to express how objects, people, or even ideas, can be translated into a certain context, expressing “this is what’s happening,” as well as “here’s the area where things could happen.” Using a commercial laser cutter, lines are ‘scorched’ directly onto wood panels. Every detail, every line is controlled down to the 1/100th of a millimeter. And then the painting itself: after mounting layers and layers of different colors of very thin paint one on top of the other, sandpaper is then used to ‘carve’ into the painting to ‘express’ the color underneath. The process is inherently a little chaotic, an inexact science, an exciting contrast to the rigorous placement and control of the lines. Self-taught, Steven’s career as an artist began in earnest in 2023.