Victor White Wolf Stevens
3400 E. Speedway, Suite 118-285
Tucson, AZ 85716
tel 520-322-5762
I am not a genre painter. My vision is humanity. The dark and light. The false and the true. Art is the rainbow in the seed. Art exists in many "isms". Images prompt one to think or feel (i.e., talking paint), moving one to the soul through simple materials. The false reason for buying any piece of fine art is for financial gain. The true reason for buying any piece of fine art is because one connects on one or more levels of their being with the art and the work stirs up what's beneath the surface of every day life.
Often I start by painting a very graphic image of the land - a person - an animal - in other words a picture - then negate the banal, the obvious, to separate, then define and discover, and I mean discover a vision. I don't seek 'cause seeking implies one knows the finished image that is sought. The only thing I know is that it's a landscape - a person, etc. however, sometimes it's a face and then I discover Father Kino - or it's just canvas and paint and then suddenly it's Sedona Vortex. Making art reminds me that wonder is my religion and within that wonder is the seat of my humility and faith in a supreme being.
When is a painting complete? When it talks! Pictures may talk, i.e. "A picture is worth a thousand words", but a painting.... a vision has resonance. It can transport you beyond the every day, even out of your body. I receive all I need for my work by spending time - walking or sitting in the Sonoran, the desert, the mountains, even the Greyhound Bus Depot. It all whispers voices of the past - the future.
I was born Victor Steven Rosenberg. In the past thirty years I have painted under different names i.e., Victor Jason, Victor Blue, Victor Steven Rosenberg, and finally Victor W. W. Stevens (White Wolf). The reason for these name changes (which took me many years to understand) was simply trying to escape an abusive childhood.
