Michael Stearns is a contemporary artist whose practice explores fundamental questions of existence, origin, and the forces that animate being. His work operates at the intersection of metaphysical exploration and aesthetic investigation, seeking not only to articulate these questions but also to implicate the viewer in their contemplation.

 

Employing a painterly language of organic forms and heightened chromatic intensity, he constructs visual fields that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, amplifying the phenomenological impact of his thematic concerns. In his sculptural works, Stearns synthesizes natural and industrial materials, generating a dialectic between the primal and the constructed, transforming dissonance into charged, communicative tension.

 

Stearns’ influences are rooted in the luminous color fields of Mark Rothko, the material juxtapositions of Robert Rauschenberg, and the expressive dynamism of the San Francisco figurative school. These artistic precedents converge with the existential inquiries of Nikos Kazantzakis, anchoring his practice within a lineage where visual form and metaphysical contemplation intersect, a tradition preoccupied with the ineffable, the liminal, and the perpetually questioned.