GO FISH, STEVEN

I live in the beautiful mountains of Utah with my wife, our 2 kids, and a golden fish named Jake–whom we’re pretty sure is immortal. I believe in always being as polite as possible. Education I graduated summa cum laude from Utah Valley University with a bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Communications. I loved every minute of my schooling. It was there that I learned about Mary Blair–a visionary artist who completely changed my ideas about art. Career Professionally, I have a colorful past as a product developer, creative director, and PHP dork. I’ve worked on entertainment projects with Mondo, NBC, IBM, JC Penney, and LAIKA animation studio. Straight out of college, I started a company, BAM POP!, as a creative outlet for myself. We focus on manufacturing arts and crafts supplies for kids of all ages. Our home-grown “night job” business has amazingly flourished into distribution in over 100 retail stores and boutiques in 15 countries. Comics Ever since I was little, one of my most heartfelt pursuits is to make comic books. In 2010, I started a webcomic, LOST in Comics, to help cultivate my drawing and writing skills. My comics have been featured on io9, Comics Alliance, and USAToday! Being a comic that satirizes the television Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. Since October of 2004, Nucleus has strived to be a welcoming gathering place for the art loving community by offering quality art, art-related goods, and rarities. Focusing primarily on gallery exhibits, we have also had benefit auctions, product signings, music events, and artist lectures. After three and a half years, we moved one block east to a much larger and more dynamic space. Still in the heart of quaint downtown Alhambra, we re-opened in March of 2008 with over 2000 square feet of open gallery space, 1000 square feet of shop/boutique, and over 3000 square feet of studio/production space. Having exhibited both local artists and artists from abroad, and catering to an international customer base, we offer an extensive collection of original contemporary, illustrated, graphic, commercial, and narrative art - all of which are carefully catalogued on our website.