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Alexey Steele

is an award-winning visual artist with a background of the Russian representational school. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, he began art training at an early age in the studio of his father Leonid Steele, a renowned Soviet Union artist. Alexey attended the prestigious Surikov Art Institute of the Soviet Academy of Arts in Moscow. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990.

Mr. Steele is best known for his large-scale figurative works in oil and on paper, portraiture, andplein-air landscapes. His works have been commissioned, exhibited and recognized throughout California, Europe, and Asia.

He is also the founder of the critically acclaimed “Classical Underground,”a classical music and visual art project and of the Award Wining “Love My Neighbor” project in the difficult and long marginalized neighborhood in the City of Carson, California. In 2019 Alexey Steele had been appointed the first Artist Laureate of Culver City, California.

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Mediums & Genres

Oil Painting

Figure, Portrait, Plein Air Landscape

Works on Paper

Portrait, Figure

Public Art

Sculpture, Installation

Art as Social Action

Social Experiments, Force of the Society, Identity and Branding

WORK

Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper

Projects & Programs

In a collaboration with Artward Initiative non-profit the variety of social action and cultural outreach projects designed and initiated by Alexey Steele have been funded in part and supported by The City of Carson, Culver City, Bank of America, California Arts Counsil, National Endowment For Humanities, California Humanities and Wells Fargo Bank, recognized by California Parks and Recreation Society(CPRS) as well as covered by media including Los Angeles Times and Gramaphone Magazine. Thank you to an amazing civic and philanthropic community that supports art as a tool of the community building.