KENNETH STEINBACH received his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1986, and his B.A. from Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1983. In addition, he studied printmaking at the University of Minnesota.

KENNETH STEINBACH'S repetitive ink depictions of objects used in everyday life are embedded in layers of resin mounted on sheets of metal. These encapsulated depictions of phones, hammers, bottles and reading glasses—these real and concrete personal items—become ethereal and fleeting when buried in the hazy transparent patina of resin. The colored, semi-translucent layers of resin, when embedded with fragments of drawn imagery, become enshrined as sublime icons.

As if in suspended animation, the objects hold and reflect a magical sense of channeling cultural treasures. These humble, common objects flicker between the tinted layers of resin like apparitions. The translucent depth of the deep sea of color drowns and trades physicality for sensation. STEINBACH'S painterly involvement with the chance formations of the resin enhances the suggestion of illusional space into micro and macro levels of contrast in scale and focus.

STEINBACH'S visionary reference might be the artist's perennial pursuit of altered states of mind that somehow remain grounded in the real, material world.