Luxe Magazine (Lifestyle) Art + Culture
By Monique Mcintosh
Thanks to synthetic paint, modern-day artists may employ every hue imaginable in their work. Yet creating color proves a far more intimate process for Stephen Arboite, a Miami painter who uses coffee to compose ethereal, fragmented portraits.
Splashed with washes of sepia and delicate layers of collaged tissue paper, his depictions of androgynous figures appear to be made with traditional art supplies instead of everyday materials. Steeped in history, these subjects and their matter relate to the personal narrative of their innovative maker, a New Yorker born to Haitian parents. “My work is inspired by many cultural and social references dealing with my upbringing here in the United States as well as my cultural roots,” he says.
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