Steve Rossi’s work incorporates sculpture, installations, photography, and video while addressing issues and ideas related to American cultural identity and consumer identity, the hand-made verses the mass-produced, permanence verses ephemerality, and notions of community and shared experience in contemporary culture. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2000 and his MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2006. Working as a welder and machinist in art casting foundries in the Hudson Valley he has been involved in the fabrication of work for artists including Richard Prince, Louise Bourgeois, and Tom Otterness among others. Currently he is a teaching artist in the New York City Public Schools as well as an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz; he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and now lives in Beacon, New York.