Following a stint at UCLA studying Art History and English, Steele’s aesthetic project formed beginning in the late sixties, with a studio in Venice, CA circa 1969 and Santa Monica, Ca circa 1973. He moved to downtown LA in 1978 establishing a studio at 800 Traction Ave, amidst the pioneering of artists, galleries, museums, and alternative art spaces. From the social circles of late 1970’s downtown Los Angeles and passing through the legacies of 80’s conceptual practice and the ferment of the “Pictures Generation”, he has never stopped his art practice, working in a variety of mediums, running eleven studios located across Los Angeles through 2017. Mirroring the culture we inhabit at this moment, he sources pictures and forms from his prodigious and idiosyncratic archive, numbering thousands of images he has shot himself, and lifted from books, magazines and the internet. Steele has recently moved and established his studio in Medford, Oregon.
