Who is Steve Connor?

He was born January 21, 1954 ...

A sense of separation, made him crave a re-union with the Self, or greater beingness, or whatever you want to call it.

He practiced the classical guitar for many hours a day, for many days, and years. His classical guitar teacher's name was Alan Alexander of Albany, NY.

From the ages 15-18, besides the guitar, he practiced Zen meditation and Yoga.

Among the many spiritual and dream experiences he had during this period was, a dream in which he held a very disabled child in his arms, knowing that this cherished being was his responsibility.

After graduation from high school, Steve attended one year at Syracuse University, where he studied with Geoff Dorfman, then transferred to Pratt Institute, where he met his art teacher Alan Fenton ... his consciousness and orientation to the abstract became firmly fixed. The work he did at that time earned a Ford Foundation Grant.

After graduating he spent a brief period in the garment district in Manhattan designing for the fashion industry.

In 1976 he drove across country to California to join the spiritual cult of Da Free John; he left that movement disillusioned.

He met his wife Amy during that period of time. Elana was born in 1978. Steve worked for as a production artists and an art director for an ad agency for 7 years, and also provided creative services for high-tech business in both print media and interactive multimedia.

Menlo Park in the 1980's.

Steve and his family moved to Austin, Texas; this is the invitation for a show there. The photo is from the 1970's by Jonathon Sperling.

In Austin he worked as an Art Director for an online learning company, with a department of 32 artists and writers.

He studies spirituality with Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Sri Shivarudra BalaYogi.

More recently, he has been teaching concept drawing, 3ds Max for modeling and animation, Flash 2D animation, Web design, Photoshop, and Illustrator.