Way Up Top

Steve Seeley was born in a small town in central Wisconsin in 1979. There he was raised on a steady diet of hash browns, action figures, heavy metal and adventure. He received his BFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point before moving to Columbus where he received his MFA from the Ohio State University. After graduating he moved away from the outer limbs of the midwest right into its heart, Chicago. There he currently resides, nourishing himself on the same diet as his childhood, with the exception of "adventure", which has been replaced by whiskey. His artwork has shown in galleries across the U.S. He is represented by the Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago. 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.