Steen Kjorlie is an American Figurative artist born and raised in Topeka, Kansas.
Steen began making sculpture in 2000 while working in a Kansas metal yard art shop. Originally using welded skeletal, found object, assemblage technique, his work evolved into complete form metal fabrication. Steen currently employs the lost wax casting method as well as fabrication to create his pieces.
He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006 and began work assembling and finishing bronze sculpture at Art Works Foundry.During his career he has had the opportunity to work with over 50 different accomplished sculptors. He currently resides and works in Richmond, California.
My sculptures are character studies with an open-ended stacked narrative structure. I like to use separated color planes along with graphic anatomical features to catch the viewers attention. The imagery is derived from hammy themes that amuse me at the time of construction. These scenarios range from the indulgence in dysfunction to the identification of stereotypes. I have spent the past few years exploring ' new/age hippie culture' and various religious cults in order to develop my own systematic trance inducing ceremony.