Steve Keister's exhibition, Split Level, features mixed-media sculptures reflecting an eight-year exploration of Pre-Columbian art and architecture. The sculptures, made from materials like glazed ceramic and acrylic paint, evoke Mesoamerican designs such as Aztec carvings and Mayan pyramids. Ongoing series like Bio Meso and Masked Figures create deities inspired by Pre-Columbian mythology. Hybrid creatures, including those from North American oral traditions, represent complex belief systems. Keister's distinctive work encompasses wall reliefs, freestanding, and large-scale sculptures, central to which is a focus on human and animal consciousness derived from Central American mythology.
Steve Keister's mixed-media sculptures derive inspiration from Pre-Columbian art and architecture, merging animal-human hybrids with elements of Mesoamerican culture to create unique deities.
Keister's sculptures encompass themes of human and animal consciousness, with works invoking oral histories and beliefs across North American and Central American cultures.
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