Stephen Livick

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Artist Statement

In our highly materialistic culture, time, money and possessions take precedence over the flow of the spirit. Living lives dominated by ego and the hollow pursuit of success, our collective consciousness is closed and cramped. We cling to this lifestyle and our belief systems confident that we are in control of every aspect of our existence.

And yet underlying this veneer of success is a powerful and creative life force that animates everyone and everything in a generative cycle of becoming. My deep awareness of this vital energy grows daily. I have little glimpses of it, often when I’m concentrating and working in the field. It is as if the veil between this dimension and the next is drawn back, for a split second, and then closes up again. I sense something very powerful beyond.

I am beginning to believe that materiality can be enfolded, and in the future perhaps we will learn how this is possible. Just as I now fold the images on themselves to create, we will learn how to intertwine a tangible reality with an intangible reality. Opening ourselves up to this potentiality is what will truly push mankind on its developmental journey.

Stephen Livick is an internationally recognized visual artist with many solo and group exhibitions in his forty-year fine art career. His work can be found in numerous public collections including the National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.

Livick is considered a master of the demanding and exacting gum bichromate process. He is currently working on a large photographic mural titled "Murdering God".

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