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Alexey Steele, born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1967, began his art training at an early age in the studio of his father, the renowned Russian painter, Leonid Steele. He furthered his professional education at the prestigious Surikov Art Institute of the Soviet Academy of Arts in Moscow under internationally acclaimed artist Illia Glazunov. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990.

Known for his large-scale figurative works, Steele’s approach to figure is rooted in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. At the same time, his works possess a modern feel and intensity in their peculiar audacity of grand scale and grand themes.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Shows: Russian Treasures and Two Generations of Artists: Leonid and Alexey Steele at the Fleischer Museum of Art in Scottsdale, Arizona; 2005 Outside Constraints at the Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California.

Group Exhibitions: the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu; Pasadena Historical Museum; Pasadena Museum of California Art; Phippen Museum, Prescott; University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center in Fayetteville; and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles

Commissions

Unique grand-scaled mural commissions The Circle (figurative composition with a diameter of 31 feet), and the slightly smaller allegorical work, The Soul of the Hero

Professional Memberships

Signature Artist Member of the California Art Club

Selected Press

Newspapers & Magazines: Fine Art Connoisseur, American Artist, Southwest Art Magazine

Selected Achievements

2010
Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine Award for Best Painting from the CAC 99th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition

2002
Selected to create “Angel of Unity”, a larger-than-life statue, installed at the Comerica Bank Towers in Downtown Los Angeles as part of A Community of Angeles Art Project in Los Angeles

1994
California Discovery Award

Press and Publications

American Legacy Fine Arts presents Alexey Steele in California Art Club's Newsletter, Summer 2017 Edition

Alexey Steele Featured in California Art Club Newsletter Summer 2017 Edition

Painter Alexey Steele’s entry into the California Art Club’s recent 106th Gold Medal Exhibition was a portrait called “Ricky.” The three-quarter bust shows a raw-boned young man with a defiant …

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Amercian Legacy Fine Arts presents ALFA artists Peter Adams, Tony Peters, Tim Solliday and Alexey Steele in American Art Collector Magazine October 2015 Issue.

ALFA Artists Peter Adams, Tony Peters, Tim Solliday and Alexey Steele featured in American Art Collector Magazine October 2015 Issue

The artists in The External and The Contemplative at American Legacy Fine Arts in Pasadena, California, encourage viewers to enrich their lives through art just as they have done.  

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Bela Bacsi and Alexey Steele Featured in Southwest Art Magazine October 2013 Issue

If everything about the world and ourselves were simple and known, there would be no wondering—and probably no art. But life comes tied with a big bow that invites curiosity, …

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Alexey Steele Featured in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine On-Line January 2013 Issue

Alexey Steele Featured in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine On-Line January 2013 Issue

Alexey Steele in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine On-Line January 2013 Issue

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ALFA at the LA Art Show (January 24 - 27, 2013; and Alexey Steele Presents "The Dawn" & Live Demos
Alexey Steele Featured in American Arts Quarterly Summer 2012 Issue

Alexey Steele Featured in American Arts Quarterly Summer 2012 Issue

Alexey Steele in American Arts Quarterly Summer 2012 Issue

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Jeremy Lipking in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine August 2012 Issue

Alexey Steele in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine August 2012 Issue

Alexey Steele in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine August 2012 Issue

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Alexey Steele Featured in American Artist's Drawing Magazine for the Spring 2012 Issue

Alexey Steele Featured in American Artist’s Drawing Magazine for the Spring 2012 Issue

Alexey Steele Featured in American Artist’s Drawing Magazine for the Spring 2012 Issue

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Jeremy Lipking Featured in American Artist Magazine Summer 2012 Issue

Alexey Steele Featured in American Artist Magazine Summer 2012 issue

Alexey Steele, Featured Cover Artist in American Artist Magazine Summer 2012 Issue

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Daniel W. Pinkham In Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine Februrary 2012

Leonid Steele, Alexey Steele’s Mentor and Father, Featured in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine February 2012

Alexey Steele’s Mentor and Father,Leonid Steele, featured in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine February 2012 Issue

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97th Gold Medal 3rd Collectors Circle Benefit April 25, 2008

Alexey Steele Featured in American Artist’s Workshop Magazine Summer 2010

Summer 2010: Filled with an amazing array of paintings, plaster casts, props, and artifacts, it looks and feels like an Old Master atelier transported into the 21st century. Sponsored by California Art Club Master Artist Workshop. Written by Michael Zakian, Ph.D., Director, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University.

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Alexey Steele at Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco

Alexey Steele Article in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine Jan/ Feb 2010

January/February 2010: "Steele has gone on to make a big impression with his "Russian maximalism", which blends the draftsmanship, ambitious compositions, and symbols of the classical tradition with a cool palette and palpable naturalism derived from the Moscow school."

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Alexey Steele Peace Prize
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Alexey Steele Featured in Los Angeles Times

August 2009: There are no tuxedos, no ushers, no raised stage here -- just a few thrift-store couches, some beach
chairs, a table covered with half-eaten pies and bottles of wine and a dozen nudes and seascapes
leaning against the walls.

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Alexey Steele Drawing Acquired by Carnegie Art Museum
Alexey Steele Featured in American Art Collector Magazine December 2006 Issue

Alexey Steele Featured in American Art Collector Magazine December 2006 Issue

Alexey Steele Featured in American Art Collector Magazine December 2006

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