CHARLIE JAMES GALLERY | Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert

SHOWS @ CJG:

Miami Project 2012
It’s Time to Fight and It’s Time to Stop Fighting
Dallas Art Fair 2012
PULSE Miami 2011
Art Toronto 2011
Texas Contemporary
Art Aspen 2011
NEXT Chicago 2011
If These Walls Could Talk – A Conversation
Group Exhibition in Conjunction with Marine
Pulse Miami 2010
Art San Diego 2010
Art Aspen 2010
NEXT Chicago 2010
Pulse NY 2010
Pulse Miami 2009
Beyond the Border Art Fair
Everything You Want, Right Now!

Artist's Resume (pdf, 145.74 Kb)

Artist's Catalog (pdf, 1.79 Mb)

Artist's Website

BIO/STATEMENT:

For Steve, art is a bridge that connects uncommon, idealistic, or even radical ideas with everyday life. Steve carefully crafts various conditions where he can discuss these ideas with people and have a mutually meaningful exchange. Often this means working collaboratively with the audience, bringing them into the process or even having them physically complete the work.

Steve wants his art to be relevant to those outside the gallery – say, at the nearest bus stop – to reach them in ways that are engaging and fun. He intends what he does to be funny, but at the core of each piece there is also a solemn critique. It’s important to be able to laugh while actively questioning the various power structures at work in our daily lives.

He has the unabashedly optimistic belief that art changes the way people look at the world. That belief fuels a pragmatic approach to bring about those changes.

Steve Lambert’s father, a former Franciscan monk, and mother, an ex-Dominican nun, imbued the values of dedication, study, poverty, and service to others – qualities which prepared him for life as an artist.

Lambert made international news after the 2008 US election with The New York Times “Special Edition,” a replica of the “paper of record” announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other good news. He has collaborated with groups from the Yes Men to the Graffiti Research Lab and Greenpeace. He is also the founder of the Center for Artistic Activism, the Anti-Advertising Agency, and Add-Art (a Firefox add-on that replaces online advertising with art) and SelfControl (which blocks grownups from distracting websites so they can get work done).

Steve’s projects and art works have won awards from Prix Ars Electronica, Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, and others. His work has been shown at galleries, art spaces, and museums nationally and internationally, and in the collections of The Sheldon Museum, the Progressive Insurance Company, and The United States Library of Congress. Lambert has discussed his work live on NPR, the BBC, and CNN, and been reported on internationally in outlets including Associated Press, the New York Times, the Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, The Believer, Good, Dwell, ARTnews, Punk Planet, and Newsweek.

He was a Senior Fellow at New York’s Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology from 2006-2010, developed and leads workshops for Creative Capital Foundation, and is faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Steve is a perpetual autodidact with (if it matters) advanced degrees from an reputable art school and reputable state university. He dropped out of high school in 1993.

Steve Lambert solo show walkthrough from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.

5050, 2011. Edition 1/1. Mixed media. 60 x 70 x 6 inches installed.

Steve Lambert

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Steve Lambert, Capitalism Works For Me! True/False, 2011, 9 ft x 20 ft x 7 ft, Aluminum and electrical
Tell The Truth Aluminum, neon, enamel, electronics, software, 30 x 59 x 7.25 inches, Edition of 3, 2012
Enduring Values, Aluminum, acrylic, vinyl, electronics, software, 17 x 42 x 7.25 inches, Edition of 3, 2012
Wealth or Happiness Aluminum, neon, enamel, electronics, vintage knife switch, 14 x 54 x 7.25 inches, 2012
Wealth or Happiness Aluminum, neon, enamel, electronics, vintage knife switch, 14 x 54 x 7.25 inches, 2012
Give and Give and Give Aluminum, acrylic, plastic, Jewelite, electronics, software, 60.5 x 31 x 8.5 inches, Edition of 3, 2012
How Change Happens, Wood, latex and casein paint, electronics, software, 24 x 77 x 5.25 inches, Edition of 3, 2012
Steve Lambert Installation "Everything You Want, Right Now" at CJG, April 2009
Trust Me, 2011. Edition 1/1. Mixed media. 30 x 44 x 5 inches installed.
5050, 2011. Edition 1/1. Mixed media. 60 x 70 x 6 inches installed.
Park and Spend Ed 1/5 | Pine, Oil Enamel, Laser Cut Acrylic, Sign bulbs, Wiring, Single-Channel Flasher | 40 5/8 x 29 inches
Private Property Ed 1/3, 2009 | Birch Plywood, Casein, Water-based Enamel, Sign Bulbs, Wiring, 4-Channel Flasher | 110 x 45 x 12 inches
You Are Still Alive, 2009. Edition of 25 | Archival Pigment Print | 30 x 20 inches
Out of Cars, 2009. Edition of 25 | Archival Pigment Print | 30 x 20 inches.
No Trespassing, 2009. Edition of 25 | Archival Pigment Print | 30 x 20 inches
Sand Ocean Sky, 2009. Edition of 25 | Archival Pigment Print | 30 x 20 inches
Do It, 2009 | Edition of 10 | Mixed Media | 6 x 10 x 5 inches
Lost Cat, 2007 | Ink on paper. Hung somewhere in Philadelphia | 11 x 14 inches
It's About Power, 2009 | Mixed Media.
Everything You Want, Right Now! Ed 1/5 | Pine, Oil Enamel, Laser Cut Acrylic, Sign bulbs, Wiring, Single-Channel Flasher | 41 ¬æ x 29 7/8 inches
Look Away Ed 1/3, 2009 | Birch Plywood, Casein and Tempera, Sign Bulbs, Wiring, 4-Channel Flasher | 121 x 84 x 5 inches
Eyes For Cash Ed 1/5 | Pine, Oil Enamel, Laser Cut Acrylic, Sign bulbs, Wiring, Single-Channel Flasher | 41 x 17 3/4 inches
Cash Rewards Ed 1/5 | Pine, Oil Enamel, Laser Cut Acrylic, Sign bulbs, Wiring, Single-Channel Flasher | 65 x 17 7/8 inches
Cash 2 Trash Ed 1/5 | Pine, Oil Enamel, Laser Cut Acrylic, Sign bulbs, Wiring | 61 5/8 x 20 1/8 inches
100%, 2009 | Edition of 3 | Mixed Media | 30 x 42 x 6 inches
Invisible, 2009 | Edition of 3 | Mixed Media | 22 x 7 x 5 inches
Unstoppable, 2009 | Edition of 7 | Mixed Media | 6 x 29 x 6 inches
Money Laundered Ed 1/5 | Pine, Oil Enamel, Laser Cut Acrylic, Sign bulbs, Wiring, Single-Channel Flasher | 41 ¬æ x 25 7/8 inches
The Special Edition (aka the Fake New York Times) 14 page newspaper, 2008 | Co-coordinated and developed with Andy Bichlebaum of the Yes Men. Distributed throughout New York one week after the election, as well as in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC. International news coverage.
Will You Marry Me, 2007 | Edition of 100 | Screen Printed Coffee Mug | 11oz