Murals by Steve Kuzma for addition detox and treatment center
I just completed seven large murals, including the interior design of a golf clubhouse re-purposed into a drug treatment center, also a bus station converted into a large detox center for Enlightened Solutions.
Enlightened Solutions is a foundation dedicated to helping those struggling with addiction. Although the work is physically and emotionally demanding, it is most fulfilling to see the results.
The golf course and club houses were transformed into beautiful treatment centers that are include the natural surroundings and spa-like. The interiors and murals are expansive, a few measuring 100 ft. long. The beautiful inspired paintings create a space that provide a nurturing aesthetic atmosphere for the residents. Art work was designed and staged for housing converted to help addiction treatment residents here in Atlantic City, My hope is that the healthy atmosphere can help affect change for people coming out of this experience a growing problem in this area. Please look at the murals for the transformed walls and buildings at The Hansen Foundation on my website.
The color and design of the building is treated much like a painting cosidering how light moves throughout the building this helps in bridging the outside and inside creating an aesthetic space conducive to recovery,and the healing process and all that work there.I especially appreciating working with the Hansen family and Bob Kumika ,the contractor for all of the projects!
Steve Kuzma Biography
Steve Kuzma studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and Parsons The New School of Design in New York City. He graduated with honors from Parsons and was awarded fellowships to study overseas in Sienna, Italy and Paris, France. During his 12-year New York City illustration career, art directors were particularly fond of his work as it incorporated a strong sense of color and motion, reflecting Steve’s strong interest in sports and his great love of the outdoors. The New York Times, New York Marathon, and Sport Monday commissioned his artwork and it has been featured in numerous publications including: Harper Collins “Sports Pages” (children book featured on Reading Rainbow) Sport Magazine, Time, Art Direction Magazine, Backpacker, and Boating. Steve’s work has been used internationally to most notably commemorate the Olympics and the 1986 World Cup Soccer events.
In his extensive travels overseas and throughout the continental United States, Steve has developed a growing connection to nature and is profoundly inspired by beauty. This love and appreciation of nature, coupled with his deeply spiritual art, form the foundation of his unique style and sublime message. A strong sense of color and a free-flowing painterly method blend with a masterful use of layering techniques, to provide the depth and dimension inherent to all of his paintings.
Steve works professionally in the areas of illustration, graphic design and advertising. He further accepts commissions and creates murals. Often sought after to lecture on his experimental painting techniques, he conducts various workshops and teaches. Active in many art organizations, Steve continues to show in both group and solo exhibitions. He is represented in permanent private, corporate and museum collections. Steve maintains studios in Ventnor City and Marlton (New Jersey). www.artofkuzma stevekuzma.com
Steve Kuzma Artist Vision Statement
My aspiration as an artist is to connect to positive influences and to share the positive connection, via painting, with the viewer. My background as a New York-trained (Parsons) artist, and within the American contemporary impressionist style, gives me leeway to interpret the world exactly as I see it.
All genres can convey the positive message. In florals, there is joy. In landscapes and seascapes, there is a feeling of openness, or of expansion of consciousness. In sports-related and mystical paintings, there is the dignity and nobility of the human spirit.
My work comes from a place of clarity, simplicity, study, and meditation. Painting becomes an answer to a prayer, or a solution for a creative problem. Maximizing the amount of information and inspiration in the simplest way, with the guidance of meditation, the painting documents my full artistic and spiritual process and leaves grace behind for the viewer to imbibe freely.
