Steven Solomon, (b. NYC 1961)

I'm a visual artist who studied sculpture and created a series of cartoon-influenced figurative work through the early 2000s. My work since the middle of that decade has morphed into text-based painting.

In 2008 I co-created Terroir wine bar and have since been responsible for all its pop-influenced design. Nominated for Beard award for Best Restaurant Graphic Design nationwide 2009 and 2010.

Beginning in 2012, as Speed Paste Robot, transposed graphics experience back into painting, featuring gestural typography and visual poems. Since 2015 have participated in Gowanus Open Studios in a storefront eponymously titled series of “Laundry Room” shows.

Since 2016 Speed Paste Robot has conducted original graphics fundraisers to support various political causes including immigrant rights, police reform, responses to the Pittsburgh synagogue attack and Hurricane Maria relief.

The 2018 exhibit was featured in a Hyperallergic post “Gowanus Artists Paint a Mangled and Messy Image of America”.

In November 2019 Wayfarers in Bushwick, NYC hosted a solo Speed Paste Robot painting exhibit called “READ ME”, centered on a set of door-sized scroll paintings with titles like “FOR THE CHIMP’S SAKE/THESE JOKES ARE SHIT” and “TIDY MESSY”.

2022: Rethinking Identity at The History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo: Kafka-inspired stop action animations addressing pandemic existence. Featuring unreliable painting process videos of the “making of” accompanying series of *squeeek* paintings.
Videos at https://tinyurl.com/speedpastevideo

Steven Solomon
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