Justin David Skye Stenson. That’s the name. No really. A graduate of Wayne State University, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts/Graphic Design, Justin creates powerful, direct images that immediately communicate an idea, yet are layered with multiple meanings.
Having worked at Leo Burnett, TradeFirst.com, Web Litho / Graphics East Printing, and currently at BNP Media as the Art Director for the ACHR News, he is equally at home in print or web, as well as with digital or handmade images, animation or logos, art direction, fine art, illustration, package, information or editorial design.
He also folds a mean origami dinosaur.
Artist Statement:
Justin Stenson explores the dichotomy between interior thoughts and external appearances; how people mask their feelings, particularly negative ones, and how those feelings sometimes force themselves to be expressed. He is also interested in presenting aspects of decay and ruin in traditional aesthetic modes. He finds beauty and humor in darkness. He works in pencil, pen and ink, pastel and oils as well as recently transitioning to digital illustration.
He does oil paintings of crackhouses and makes origami dinosaurs out of Post-It notes.