Erik Steen
Eric Steen's work takes the form of socially engaged projects that explore leisure, pedagogy, and the microtopias that exist in our daily lives. Recently graduated from Portland State University's Art and Social Practice program, Eric has exhibited work and facilitated events in galleries and public venues including: Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art in Glasgow, Scotland, Portland Art Museum, Klondike Institute for Art and Culture in the Yukon, B.C., Apexart in New York, the PICA Time Based Arts Festival, Ox-Bow, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, California College of Arts, Portland City Hall, Igloo Gallery in Portland, Disjecta in Portland, and Worksound Gallery in Portland. As a supplement to his work, Eric runs http://beerandscifi.com and http://thegreenwashingblog.com. His work is being published in Paul Butler's book through Vantage Art Projects. Eric was a panelist at the San Francisco MoMA as part of the Art and Participation: 1950 to Now exhibition and recently presented at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Conference about implementing social practice into the Foundations classroom.
