About the Artist
Steve Bernstein is one of the newer permanent artists at Cove Gallery, joining the member-owned gallery in September 2016. Steve is the first digital artist to show work at Cove Gallery, with his photography-based work representing recognition of a new and fast-growing discipline.
“The wonderful diversity of artists and art at Cove Gallery is what sets the gallery apart from other galleries and what first attracted me to the Cove,” says Steve. “From landscapes to abstract work and watercolors, you don’t get such a wide range of art very often.”
Photography runs in Steve’s veins. His father was an architectural photographer in New York, and his grandparents were also photographers in its infancy.
An accomplished scientist and inventor, Steve’s career has been driven by imagery. His work has ranged from exploring the secrets of marine bioluminescence in deep-sea submersibles to developing and working with robotics and imaging techniques in medical research.
Simple, bold and graphic, with a real emphasis on color, Steve’s work combines two of his major passions – photography and computers. While each of Steve’s pieces begins as a photograph, it is transformed into a work of art using a bewildering array of digital tools and techniques.
Steve’s art is all about delighting the eyes and stimulating the soul. “I feel I have succeeded if I create art that people want in their homes and in their lives every day,” says Steve.
Steve has had an active 2017 so far. With friend and colleague, world-renowned marine biologist Dr Edie Widder, Steve exhibited Illuminating the Deep for three months at the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta, Florida. A collaboration between Steve and Edie, Illuminating the Deep is an exciting exhibition about the mysteries of the deep and the wonderful and bizarre creatures that inhabit the planet’s last frontier, including the Giant Squid. Illuminating the Deep has already had successful seasons at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, Vancouver Aquarium in Canada and the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida. You can see more about Illuminating the Deep at www.facebook.com/IlluminatingTheDeep.
Besides exhibiting at Cove Gallery, Steve’s work resides in private collections in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the offices of the Secretary of State, Florida, and the Official Residence of the New Zealand Consul-General, Los Angeles.
Come meet Steve in person at the June Laguna First Thursday Art Walk Reception on Thursday,
June 1, 2017 from 6 – 9 pm in the Cove Gallery.
About the Cove Gallery
The Cove Gallery is an artist-owned Gallery featuring 12 accomplished artists specializing in a contrast of styles of beautiful original art in the mediums of oils, acrylics, watercolor, mixed media along with 3-D photography and photography-based digital art. They are presented in an ever changing exhibition with the artists there for you to meet and enjoy.
When you buy at Cove Gallery, you are buying original fine art DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST. YOU SAVE because there are no added gallery fees on top of the artists’ work.
We are As of May 8, We are across the street from the Surf & Sand Resort at 1550 South Coast Highway.
Cove Gallery
Current address is: 1492 S. Coast Hwy, #8 in the Art Center.
NEW ADDRESS is: 1550 South Coast Hwy
(NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS beginning 5/8/2017!)
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Phone: (949) 715-7149
Email: info@covegallerylaguna.com
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday through Monday:
Spring/Fall/Winter: 11am to 5pm Summer Hours: 11am to 6pm
