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BIO
STEVE VASEY
1939-1998
Steve Vasey was born in Colorado and spent his elementary and junior high years in Iowa City attending Lincoln Elementary and University High School. His father, Wayne Vasey, was Director of the School of Social Work at the University of Iowa from 1949-1954.
Steve exhibited in over twenty major art galleries and had nine one-man shows. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Rutgers University.
Steve was on the cusp between the Beatniks and the Hippies. “I grew up with the Pete Seeger song book,” he liked to explain. “I met Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in the 50's.” He admitted to identifying more with the Beatniks than the Hippies.
His first show in New york City at the Judson Gallery where many of the 1960's innovative artists were exhibiting. Subsequently he showed “uptown” at the posh Howard Wise Gallery during his “fifteen minutes of fame.”
After traveling back to Colorado, Steve joined the artistic “intentional community”of Libre and exhibited in Denver.
Steve later moved to Austin, Texas, where he was a reporter for the Bastop County Times. He also wrote poetry, prose-and created a cartoon character named Lucky Pierre.
Steve looked at painting
as an object. As he put it “My philosophy is summarized by the Popeye saying,
'I am what I am.'”