User:Neuralia/Stev´nn Hall

Stev´nn Hall (b. July 19, 1966) is a Canadian contemporary visual artist living in Hamilton, Ontario. His multifaceted artistic expressions include portrait photography, film making on LGBT themes; and multi media pictorial artwork, often made by elaborating on originally photographic takes. Hall's photographic portraiture representing homosexual psychologycal conflicts was reviewed on Vice, and termed "confrontational and seductive" by Canadian writer R.M. Vaughan as published in The Globe and Mail. His satyrical short film "Bondage Television" denounces the abusive nature of male's behavior often present in emblematic Hollywood's action films, as commented in length by the film writer Thomas Waugh. Hall´s pictorial artwork has been featured in noted art blogs including Creative Boom and Colossal, describing the way Hall applies paint media and varnish to distressed photographs to develop his landscapes and still lifes. Hall's pictorial themes have included recreations of Monet´s water lilies; as well as open-field provincial landscapes depicting imposing cloud scenery in a hyperrealistic style.