R JUSTIN STEWART

NEW YORK

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R Justin Stewart was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin in1980. His first foray into art came in high school when he took a ceramics class taught by his football coach, for no other reason than an easy A. After discovering his love of making, he attended the Kansas City Art Institute where he earned his BFA in 2003 followed by the University of Minnesota where he earned an MFA in 2008. He currently lives and works in New York City.

R Justin Stewart is inspired by the evolving interpretation of ideas, he investigates how information is translated, transformed and conveyed across time and space. The complex process of interpretation through which civilizations and individuals alike make sense of information, is deeply rooted in a contextual belief structure. The changing of such structures greatly impacts the resulting understanding of ideas and information. R Justin Stewart work presents the viewer with information that has been translated through an unfamiliar lens of visual display. The disconnect that arises between different presentations of identical information highlights the need for a historical and contextual investigation in order to make sense of the world we live in.