Geoffrey Stein

I paint to find out what I think about the world; to discover the things I do not have words for. I savor the slips of the hand that express one's unconscious feelings. I am interested in the tension between abstraction and realism. I do not want to make an academic copy of the model or a photorealistic illustration. My paintings explore the tension between what needs to be shown and what does not, the seen and the unseen.


Geoffrey Stein is a former lawyer, who has been painting full-time since 2000. He received an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Stein lives and paints in New York City.

Slade School of Fine Art, London, MFA Painting, 2007;
New York Studio School, New York, NY, Certificate in Painting 2004;
Albany Law School, Albany, NY, JD 1986; and
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY BA 1982.