I’m an artist, graphic designer and art director in Los Angeles.

My art practice combines photography, design and mixed media. In this moment of techno-optimism, I am inspired to make spectacles from unassuming and unexpected materials. The images generated by the multi-billion dollar James Webb telescope are sublime, but are they anything more?

Using handmade and mechanical processes, I construct images from humble resources. I am drawn to found objects and images (marbles, technical diagrams, aquarium pebbles, stickers, marionette puppets, enamel bowls…) and household items (food coloring, cardboard, terrariums, safety-pins, straw…). I stage these kitchen sink elements then work them with photography and design to speak on the promises of technology and nostalgia.


Isd studio

As a graphic designer and art director, I've worked with a range of businesses including eyewear brands, media agencies, musicians, artists, chefs and cultural institutions.

Most recently I started Questionable Ethics, a journal dedicated to the convergence of psychotherapy/ psychoanalysis and the arts.

I also run an art print studio called Figures on a Landscape.

"Quality Above Everything” is my design ethos, inspired by the legendary Apple Pan restaurant (serving burgers and pies on Los Angeles’ Pico Blvd. since 1947).

 

Contact steinberg.ld@gmail.com

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b. Los Angeles, CA
lives and works, Los Angeles, CA

2013, MFA, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2008, BA, Media Studies, Pitzer College
Claremont, CA

links
questionable ethics journal
figures on a landscape
spectacle magazine
the basement archive/ sming sming books
all the best/ artillery magazine