Buried Treasure
New Mixed Media Paintings
By Kate Steiger
In this series of new mixed media paintings, Steiger explores and transforms the symbols, artifacts and ornaments of ancient cultures. By revealing and then concealing, the artist uses sanding, erasure and reworking to fragment and abstract the motifs. The images are thereby altered into an entirely unique aesthetic vocabulary.
Using the contours of the Amphorae from Crete and Turkey as inspiration, Kate Steiger composes her paintings in layers, assembling archaeological elements from diverse worlds—carved Egyptian panels, Assyrian friezes, Byzantine icons and Asian scrolls, editing and changing the elements to make them her own.
Steiger describes her new work as “part memory and part imagination” and by examining these buried treasures, she brings the past into the present.
Amphorae |
Ancient Promises |
Buried Treasure |
China Trade |
Cultivation |
The Dragon’s Promise |
The Emperor's Garden |
Envoy |
The Forbidden Garden |
Happiness Jar |
Harmony |
Imari Legend |
Marrakesh |
Memories of Pompeii |
Neptune’s Vessel |
Ornament & Artifact |
Phaestus |
Portal |
Precious Cargo |
Recollection |
Reliquary |
Uncovering the Sun |
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Other Mixed Media
China Trade |
Memento Series, Oranges |
Music Memories |
Celebration Series
Celebration #1 |
Celebration #2 |
Celebration #3 |
