Stephen Poleskie

STEPHEN (STEVE) POLESKIE IS AN ARTIST AND WRITER. His artwork is in the collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; The National Collection, Washington, D. C., and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Tate Gallery in London.

Over a career of fifty years Poleskie’s artwork has been widely exhibited. Among the cities he has had his work shown, or done performances, are New York, Boston, Cambridge, Washington D. C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Reading, Toledo, Richmond, Williamsburg, San Antonio, and Miami, in the USA; London, Southampton, Loughborough, and the Isle of Wight in the UK; Rome, Milan, Bologna, Brescia, Como, Trento, Turin, Verona, and Palermo in Italy; Munich, Stuttgart, and Kassel, in Germany; Linz in Austria; Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia; Moscow and Saint Petersburg in Russia; Warsaw, Gdansk, and Lodz, in Poland; Tiblisi in the Republic of Georgia; Vilinus in Lithuania; Freetown in Sierra Leone; Stockholm in Sweden; Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula in Honduras; Barcelona, Madrid, and Cadaque in Spain; Locarno in Switzerland; Varna in Bulgaria, and Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan.

His writing, fiction and art criticism, has appeared in many journals both here and abroad. Among these are American Writing, BookPress, Essays & Fictions, Leonardo, Lightworks, Many Mountains Moving, OE, Pangolin Papers, Satire, Shiny, Skylark, SN Review, Straight, Sulphur River Literary Review, Q, and Wordwrights in the USA, D'Ars, and Spazio Humano in Italy, Himmelschrieber in Germany, and Imago in Australia. He has a short story in the anthology The Book of Love, from W. W. Norton, and has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize award. A handmade book of his poetry, Sky, was printed by Loughborough College of Art in England.

His novel, The Balloonist, The Story of T. S. C. Lowe, Inventor, Scientist, Magician, and Father of the U. S. Air Force, was published by Frederic C. Beil, in 2007. He has since published three other books, The Third Candidate, 2008 a novel, Grater Life, 2009 a novel in stories, and Vigilia's Tempest, 2010 a novel

In addition to the thirty-three years he spent at Cornell University, Poleskie has taught, or been a visiting artist or professor at 26 colleges and art schools throughout the world, including the School of Visual Art in New York and the University of California, Berkeley.

A skilled pilot, Poleskie attained an Air Transport Pilot's rating, and also was active in air show and stunt flying, and was a champion aerobatic pilot.

Stephen Poleskie currently is a professor emeritus at Cornell University. He lives in Ithaca, NY with his wife, the novelist, Jeanne Mackin.

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SOMETIMES OUR BEST ENDEAVORS, most carefully planned and executed, do not work out. What went wrong? Sometimes something casually conceived and virtually "knocked off" is completely successful. Right is often wrong, and wrong right. Why do we love what we are doing, and hate it at the same time? Why do we put our works in public, and suffer both pride and embarrassment? Why do we try to say something about what we are doing, and then realize that we cannot?

Stephen Poleskie

Hildibrand, June (1967) Artists Proof, the Annual of Prints and Printmaking, Pratt Graphics Center, NY, and Barre Publishers, MA Silkscreen Printing by Steve Poleskie, p 78-82, 1 black and white reproduction A Note on Chiron Press, p 83-4

various authors (1968) Artists Proof, the Annual of Prints and Printmaking, Pratt Graphics Center, NY, and Barre Publishers, MA, Poleskie, Steve, tipped in screen print (4 colors) p 7

Biegeleisen, J. I. (1971) Screen Printing, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, ISBN 0-237-44810-6, Poleskie, Steve, p 34, one black and white reproduction

Eichenberg, Fritz (1976) The Art of the Print, Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York, ISBN 0-8109-0103-X, Poleskie, Steve, p 489, 510-11, 578, one page reproduction (color) 542

Eichenberg, Fritz (1978) Lithography and Silkscreen, Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York, ISBN 0-8109-2095-6, Poleskie, Steve, p 123, 152-153, one page reproduction (color) 133

Images of an Era: the American Poster 1945-1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 1976, Poleskie, Steve, one page reproduction, (color) p 98, from MOMA Collection

American Art Directory, 50th Edition, edited by Jaques Cattell Press, R. R. Browker, New York & London, 1984, Poleskie, Steve, p 664

Ackerman, Diane (1985) On Extended Wings, Athenum, New York, ISBN 0-689-11540-7

Zeitlin, Marilyn, (1985) Steve Poleskie, Drawings and Collages, Marilyn Zietlin, introduction; Peter Frank, essay, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, catalog, 11 black and white reproductions

Kimpel, Harald (1986) Himmelsschreiber, Dimensionen Eines Fluchtigen Mediums Jonas Verlag, Marburg, Germany, ISBN 3-922561-50-0, Poleskie, Steve, p 83, 105-114, 10 black and white reproductions

Crispolti, Enrico (1987) Steve Poleskie, Galleria Schneider, Roma, catalog, 1 color, 1 black and white reproduction

Krantz, Les (1987) The New York Art Review, Les Krantz, American References, Chicago, ISBN 0-913756-09-0, Poleskie, Steve, p 1016, reproduction, (black & white) p 1046

Foster, Stephen and Lurie, Alison (1989) Steve Poleskie, Artflyer, John Hansard Gallery, The University of Southampton, UK, 1989, catalog, 8 color reproductions

Meyer, Jon (1989) Steve Poleskie, Artflyer, Clemson University, catalog, 3 color, and 5 black and white reproductions

Dantzic, Cynthis Maris (1990) Design Dimensions, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, ISBN 0-13-199985-0, Poleskie, Steve, p 296 reproduction (black & white)

Who's Who In American Art, 1991 -1992, 19th Edition, R.R. Bowker, New Providence, NJ, Poleskie, Stephen Francis, 884, also 1993, 94, 95, 96, etc.

Rebeschini, Claudio (1994) Crali Aeropittore, Electra, Milano, 1994, Poleskie, Steve, p 255, photograph of Poleskie, (black & white)

Corlett, Mary Lee (1994) The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Hudson Hills Press, New York, ISBN 1-55595-105-8, Poleskie, Stephen, p 25, 80, 81, 82, 257,

Ackerman, Diane and Mackin, Jeanne (1998)The Book of Love, W. W. Norton, New York, ISBN 0-393-04589-7, Poleskie, Stephen F., Love and Janus Zyvka, short story, p 243-246

Mishlove, Jeffery (2000) The PK Man, A True Story of Mind Over Matter, Hampton Roads Publishers, Charlottesville, VA, ISBN 978-1571741837, Poleskie, Stephen, p 33-34

Overview, (2001) University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, Steve Poleskie, p 49, one color reproduction

Pisano, Dominick A. editor (2003) The Airplane in American Culture, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ISBN 0-472-09833-0, Poleskie, Steve, p 283

various authors (2006) Die Sichtbarkeeit Der Schrift, Fink Wilhelm Gmbh + Co.KG, ISBN 978-3770542505, Poleskie, Steve, Artflyer, p 53

Goodwin Susan W. and Whitley, Peggy J. (2007) 99 Jumpstarts for Kids, Libraries Unlimited, ISBN 978-1591584032

Who's Who in the World 2010, Marquis, New Providence, NJ, ISBN 978-0-8379-1143-4

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