Steve Pauley

Steve Pauley (1973) is an American multidisciplinary artist, known for his sculpture and photography. Pauley is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

"For Da Bitchez" (2004) is an example of Steve Pauley's sculptural work. The sculpture is a graffitied bathroom stall from Baltimore's Mount Royal Tavern, a local art student hang out. The bathroom stall was subjected to Pauley's sandblasting as he carved graffiti, traced from men's and women's restrooms, into it; one side from the men's room, another from the women's. In this case both the bathroom stall and the graffiti are found objects.

Pauley earned his M.F.A. in 2007 from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his M.A, from Marshall University, West Virginia and B.A, from West Virginia State University (WVSU).

In 2007, the artist's work was included in the Bird Flew Exhibition at the Tribes Gallery as part of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. The New York Times dubbed Pauley's reliefs on absolute black granite to be the "most striking and unorthodox work" in the exhibition. Some of Pauley's other reviews include the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Charleston Daily Mail, and NY Arts Magazine, and his work has been featured on All Things Considered on NPR and on HBO's Boardwalk Empire.

His most recent solo exhibition Transcriptions in 2014 was at the Saint Mary the Virgin Gallery in Times Square, New York City. Other solo exhibitions include The Rock show at the Koenig Gallery in Charleston, WV; Freddy's Backroom in Brooklyn, NY; Crush and High Alert at the Broadway Gallery in New York, NY; Instant Gratification at the Della Brown Taylor Gallery at West Virginia State University; and an at the Amalie Rothschild Gallery in Baltimore, MD. His main body of work consists of low relief sculpture on granite, marble, or found objects.