Steve Simmons began his journey as a sculptor in the 1990s, building upon a creative foundation inherited from his parents, who were both accomplished painters. His father, also a businessman, produced the famous Robert Simmons brushes, favored by iconic American artists like Norman Rockwell and Andrew Wyeth. After honing his craft at a sculpture center in New York City followed by Silvermine Arts in Connecticut, Steve developed a style that breathes life and energy into static materials.

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Steve’s sculpting has taken two avenues. In one, he focuses on using various metals to create abstract indoor and outdoor works. The sculptures often shine with primary and secondary colors applied in polychromatic paint. They can be large outdoor ones as tall as nine feet like The Universality of Love and Diamonds to the Sky, and smaller indoor ones, like Circle Red and Suspended in Space. Steve loves to elicit the feeling of movement in these sculptures, even though they are stable. He says, “I like the sculptures to exhibit an energy as one experiences them from different viewpoints. They appear to have movement even though they stand still. Life is energy – and I like that in my sculptures”. In recent years Steve has produced sculptured wall hangings with metal and vibrant colors that exude energy. Thus, Kiss of the Sun shows over 300 hand painted thin steel sunflowers – all with different shapes, colors and heights. And Osprey Circle contains over 200 different colored Osprey at different heights, circling fish in a pond.

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The second avenue Steve has taken is using clay to sculpt animals as well as the human form. The clay pieces are brought to a foundry where using the lost wax process bronze is melted to create a full metal replica of the clay model. Thus, Osprey Catch depicts an Osprey with hundreds of feathers holding a fish in its talons as it flies away. Other bronzes depict an elephant with ears outstretched, a great white shark, and the fluid grace of a dancing ballerina. A number of the pieces are large outdoor installations and others smaller indoor ones.

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Steve resisted selling his sculptures for many years. But with much pressure applied from friends, he had several exhibits at local galleries, and a number were sold immediately. Steve was recently “discovered” by George Berges of the renowned Berges Gallery in Soho New York who fell in love with his work. Steve is now represented by Berges gallery.

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Steve was recently invited to participate in the Venice Biennale 2026. His works will be exhibited in a large space overlooking the Grand Canal in the Palazzo Bembo. In inviting Steve to the Biennale, The European Cultural Centre said, “His skill in giving presence to the living world – whether through anatomically evocative animals or fluid, abstract metal forms – carries both a formal elegance and poetic force ….His sculptures invite contemplation of movement, anatomy, and materiality, prompting viewers to sense the vitality underlying stillness. . . his sensitivity to scale and form promises to engage meaningfully with the spatial and historical character of Venice, offering audiences immersive encounters in a city that is itself a living work of art.”