Steven DaLuz

Steven DaLuz (b. 1953) is  known for figurative works and imagined landscapes,  using  both encaustic, and a process he devised with metal leaf, oil, and mixed media.   Born in Hanford, California, Steve retired from the Air Force after  living 14 years abroad.  He completed a BA degree in Social Psychology, and an MA degree in Management, before earning a BFA from UTSA in 2003.  Identified as a "contemporary Luminist"  in Wikipedia, his work is in private and corporate collections in 36 States and overseas.  He has exhibited internationally, and has been published  in art books, and magazines, such as Art in America, American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, The Huffington Post, Encaustic Art, Professional  Artist, the International Drawing Annual, and  The Artists.  He is a frequent  guest curator for Poets Artists magazine, and digitally-stored copies of some of his work are scheduled to be launched to the surface of the Moon in 2022.  A  finalist for the  2015 Hunting Art Prize,  Best of Show in the Bold Brush painting competition in 2018, and listed in  Buzzfeed's "100 Figurative Oil Painters Working Right Now (2020)",  DaLuz is President of the Board of Directors for the Coppini Academy of Fine Art and he is represented by AnArte Gallery in San Antonio, Texas.

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