Steve Spencer

Steve Spencer’s outsider-influenced painting combines vivid color with humor and subtle compositional structures.  Spencer uses the tactile, plastic nature of acrylic paints to create musical canvasses.  His images combine representation and abstraction creating a post-modern mesh. 

He is drawn to popular culture, urban life, music, baseball, and the way our memories work.  Many of his works appear obvious at first glance but reward viewers with deeper layers upon reflection.

Spencer’s work has been featured in numerous publications around the world.  In 2016, he was honored with a grant by the Arkansas Arts Council.  He was selected as a Regional Artist by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.  In 2019 Spencer created the artwork for the Google Doodle honoring B.B. King. Spencer’s works have been featured in museum exhibits, the National Pastime Museum, the Kellogg Foundation, a handful of boutique hotels and dozens of private collections across the U.S.

Here's a link to the behind-the-scenes video for the Google Doodle:

Behind the scenes video about the Google Doodle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTb4wUZhBRA

Largely self-taught, Steve worked to create a deeply personal style. “I love outsider art,” Spen...

Master of Arts, University of Southern California, School of Cinema / Television.

South Arkansas Art Center Annual Juried Exhibition June - July 2024, El Dorado, Arkansas

Gestalt Projects - Spectrum Gestalt 9 July 2024, Santa Monica

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, May - September 2021

62nd Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, June 19 - August 25, 2020 Little Rock, Arkansas

Permanent & Natural, Carnegie Center for Art and History, featured artist, February 22 - April 18, 2020 New Albany, Indiana

Pop-Up Art Shop: Nov. 7 - 10, 2019, Little Rock, Arkansas

Guest Artist, Google doodle. September 16, 2019, B.B. King.

Behind the scenes video about the Google Doodle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTb4wUZhBRA

Gestalt Projects - Spectrum Gestalt 6 (2019), Santa Monica, California

Clio Art Fair - 550 W. 29th St.,New York (2019)

Gestalt Projects - Spectrum Gestalt 5 (2018) Small Works of a predominent color, Santa Monica, California

Bergino, April - September 2015, New York, NY.

"More Vivid than Real Life." November 2010, Fall Art Show, Little Rock, Arkansas