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Steven Shearer (b. 1968, New Westminster, Canada) lives and works in Vancouver. He studied at Emily Carr in Vancouver (1992) and at the NASCAD New York Summer Studio Programme (1991).
Steven Shearer has become well known for his paintings and drawings, photo collages and text-based works.
His pieces construct a consistent dialogue between his upbringings and that of early 1970s pop and heavy metal, as he draws on themes of adolescent rebellion, frivolous energy and teenaged boy angst. Bubbling beneath an iconic aesthetic surface, his world is one of alienation from, and repulsion to, everyday existence.
Steven shearer biography
Focusing on a melancholic vision of youth, the heroic protagonists of Shearer’s works are prefab boy bands, amateur glam-rockers and guitar-wielding teenaged suburban dreamers. He is disinterested in the fame of his stars, finding more inspiration in their downfalls.
As manifestations of the artist’s own suburban youth, by depicting these subcultures he aims to reveal the vulnerabil