Biography:

Steven Tabbutt was born in Maine and spent the majority of his childhood on military bases in North & South Carolina. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration (minor in Painting) from the Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia, in 2002. He received his MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2006.

Some of Steven’s awards and honors include Society of Illustrators 50th Annual & Traveling Show, Studio Visit Magazine, HarperCollins’ Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2, Communication Arts Illustration Annual 49, American Illustration 25 (Web site) and 26 & 27 (Annual), Spectrum 13 & 14, CMYK, SILA 41, Juxtapoz, Applied Arts 2001 & 2002, 3x3 ProShow 4 & 5, 3x3 directory, 3x3 student annual 2 & 3 (gold, silver, bronze and merit awards), 3x3 magazine issue #7, showcase, 3x3 new talent Web site, 3x3 Creative Convocation Promotion (gold medal piece used as cover), Creativity magazine new talent contest finalist, Artinfo.com new talent, and SOI 1999 Student Scholarship Annual Show.

Steven’s illustration is represented by Morgan Gaynin Inc. Some of his clients include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Conference Board Review, Mortgage Banking magazine, Out, Hour Detroit magazine, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy® Awards 2007 & 2008), Breakaway, Abelson-Taylor, and Design Press, among others.

Steven has exhibited work with galleries nationally and internationally, in such cities as New York, Paris, London, and Tokyo including regular exhibitions with the Yukiko Kawase Gallery; his piece “Landlocked Blues” was chosen for Yukiko Kawase’s London Art Fair Year07 catalog cover and featured in Miser&Now. Steven has participated in several juried exhibitions and won awards including Best-In-Show and awards of excellence. Additionally, he has been included in two issues of Studio Visit Magazine.

Statement:

Steven Tabbutt's current work combines classical painting with graphic mark making to create a fantasy reality with logic and rules all its own. He draws influences from lexicons of history, folklore, and fairy tales, and mines the invented histories and characters of his past work for self-referential cues.