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Steven Lustig

Steven Lustig was born and raised near the North Shore of Chicago where he began drawing at a very early age. In high school he met a regionally known sculptor and began his fine arts education. During that time Steven was given a copy of Gray’s Anatomy. Becoming fascinated by what he saw, he immediately began to draw directly from the book, changing the course of his life and starting a lifelong study of the human form.

Steven received an art scholarship to Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, completing his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with an emphasis in Biotechnical Illustration. While at the University of Illinois, Steven began to work for the Biomechanical Engineering department. His early work combining computers, art, and human motion became the genesis of Steven’s fine art, regardless of media. He would go on to draw, paint and sculpt thousands of interpretations of the human form in his own distinctive style.

In 1982 Steven moved to Southern California to work at an Olympic research center focused on Sports Medicine and Biomechanical Engineering. Steve quickly recognized the promise of what computer illustration could bring to traditional graphic design techniques. He founded BioDesign Communications in 1989, a highly specialized computer graphics company supplying creative illustrations to the Life Science, Medical Device, and Healthcare industries. For fifteen years Steven produced medical and life science images for companies around the world, illustrating four books and a series of life science illustrations for the Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

Throughout this time Steven continued to draw and sculpt, dedicating his life to the arts. His fascination with drawing human and natural forms continues to ignite his creative talent and provides him with an endless supply of material. Steven’s art is powerful, passionate, and embraces the human form and natural forms from the California coastline using both abstract and realist techniques. In motion or still, in wood or in stone, his figures and objects take on an ethereal form, coming alive in a way that is meaningful to all who view them.

In addition to working as an artist and a scientist, Steven teaches art to elementary school students in Huntington Beach, California, is an active arts and legislative advocate for education, and studies Kempo Karate. He lives in Huntington Beach, California with his wife and two children.