Steve Brudniak

Steve Brudniak (Born April 9, 1961, Topeka, Kansas) is an American artist known for highly crafted and unusual assemblage sculpture. His art incorporates, often pioneering, unconventional media and scientific elements such as high voltage electricity, Tesla coil technology, magnetic ferrofluid, gyro mechanics, biological preservations, fiber optics, and lasers.

Brudniak incorporates disparate found objects in the construction of his art, however the finished pieces do not resemble collage. His assemblages generally give the appearance of being functional machines or ritualistic objects that are indivisibly "of a piece," albeit of indiscernible origin and purpose. Spirituality, psychology, and biology are common themes in his work.

In 2008 his Astrogeneris Mementos became the first assemblage sculptures in outer space, taken aboard the International Space Station by entrepreneur and astronaut Richard Garriott.

Brudniak spent his elementary and high school years in Houston, Texas. His earliest outlets for artistic expression included writing, acting, music and film projects. In 1981 he opened the Victorian Recording Studio in Houston, recorded and performed in bands, and simultaneously began building his first assemblages. ...