Harrison Steinbuch is a Chicago-based artist, designer, and engineer exploring the relationships between action, observation, and composition. His work incorporates a variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, and design for fabrication, often drawing influence from - and finding balance between - his background in Architecture and interest in Abstract Expressionism.
Harrison's personal work explores how individual actions, materials, and processes accumulate to produce interesting and unexpected outcomes. His Paintings embrace spontaneous experimentation, allowing material and process to inform each composition; his ongoing Action Painting series extends that process as a collaborative performance; and his Wall Fragments series showcases photography and sculptural reliefs that frame fortuitous compositions found within the built environment. Throughout his work, architecture remains a persistent influence, informing an interest in geometry, form, materiality, texture, light, and the relationship between order and disorder.
Harrison’s professional work operates at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and manufacturing, translating design concepts into boutique architectural installations. He received a Master of Architecture with distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 2014 and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2012.