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Steven Parrino (American, 1958-2005) was a visual artist who lived and worked in New York City. Born in Brooklyn, he attended the School of Visual Arts. Inspired by Vito Acconci, another Brooklyn-born artist of Italian-American descent, Parrino began showing his work in Manhattan galleries in the early 1980s. He had solo exhibitions with Metro Pictures Gallery, New York and various commercial galleries in Germany and France. He is best known for large scale monochrome paintings of irregular or baggy stretching. He also made drawings and videos and played the bass guitar. He was close friends with many artists of his generation including Cady Noland, Chuck Nanney, Laura Cottingham, Olivier Mosset and others. In the 1990s and early '00s he was represented by Team Gallery, New York. He appears as a Hell's Angel in the art world satire, "The Anita Pallenberg Story," 2000. An avid Harley Davidson motorcyclist, he died in a freak motorcycle accident not far from his Brooklyn home returning home on New Year's Day 2005. A posthumous exhibition of his work was held at the Gagosian Gallery, New York in 2007.