● portfotolio ● albums of steve loya

Strange Love (Depeche Mode tribute band) with opening act Electric Duke (David Bowie tribute act ), live at State Theatre, Falls Church, Virginia

Solar System series

Slowdive live, Anthem, DC, 11/17/2024

Baltimore art day with Art, Jake, Rafer, and Eric G.

Lake Needwood Hike with Eric, Josh, and Andrez, November 3, 2024

A visit to Ellanor C. Lawrence Park with Sam

Glenstone Museum visit with Sam, 10/27/2024

10/26/2024 Splotch Monster workshop at Faith Chapel Gathering Place

Air, Moon Safari 25th Anniversary concert, the Anthem, DC

Friday night out with Sam

Kensington, MD visit with Sam

Basquiat and Banksy exhibit with Sam at the Hirshhorn

Osgemeos exhibit with Sam, at the Hirshhorn

Connecticut Ave, DC evening with Sam, visiting Politics and Prose bookstore, eating and playing ping pong at Comet Ping Pong, and catching the Eno documentary film at The Avalon Theatre

Howard Jones live at Tally Ho, 9/21/2024

Curious by Nature: Works by Charley & Edie Harper exhibit at the MSV, Winchester

Gardens of Glass: The Art of Craig Mitchell Smith at the MSV, Winchester, Virginia

a visit to RISD

a visit to the Fogg Museum of art, Cambridge, Massachusetts

DC abstract photography session, 7/23/2024

early morning photo session in Leesburg, Virginia with Kent

June 15, 2024 WV visit with Sam

WV Weekend with Sam (Martinsburg, Berkeley Springs, and Shepherdstown)

closing reception for Visible Audio Landscapes at Art Sound Language

Sunny May Saturday with Sam

Sam and I attending the Devo film event and Q&A at AFI Silver Spring, 5/16/2024

Visible Audio Landscapes exhibit opening reception 1, May 11, 2024

May Flowers art reception at King Street Coffee, 5/3/2024

The Toasters, live at Pie Shop DC, 4/20/2024

May Flowers exhibit at King Street Coffee, Leesburg, Virginia, April and May, 2024

Stop and Smell the Flowers exhibit at CRAFT Leesburg, 4/14/2024

A Visit To The Minneapolis Institute Of Art, 4/6/2024

NAEA 2024 Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota

steps to the making of the Splotch Flower Dragon

late March 2024 DC visit

Spring Break Pittsburgh 2024

Visible Audio Landscapes

Splotch Monster Island art opening at BeachKraft Gallery, Olney, Maryland, 3/3/2024

Strangelove, Depeche Mode tribute band at Tally Ho, Leesburg, Virginia, 2/17/2024

Nature Faces

a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1/28/2024

Clouds

Girlfriend In A Coma, live at Tally Ho, 1/20/2024

The Charlatans UK and Ride, live at The Fillmore, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1/17/2024

DC day visit to National Gallery of Art, and Ben’s Chili Bowl with Kent Lewis

Trinidad, December, 2023

VAEA conference, 2023, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Tortoise, with opening band, Basic, live at The Black Cat, November 5th, 2023

Third Annual Novel Expressions contest, keynote speech, Franklin Park Arts Center, 10/28/2023

Morrissey live at The Anthem, DC, 10/18/2023

Splotch Monster workshop at Faith Chapel Gathering Place, 10/15/2023

DC art and food adventure with Maria Amelia, 10/14/2023

Drab Majesty and Slowdive live at The 9:30 Club, 9/30/2023

Tangerine Dream live at Lincoln Theatre, DC, 9/29/2023

Lake Needwood visit, 9/16/2023

Duran Duran live at PPG Paints Arena, 9/9/2023

Tallies and The Ocean Blue live at Howard Theatre, Washington, DC 9/8/2023

POP art exhibit at MSV, 8/3/2023

Nature Connects exhibit at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 8/3/2023

Stop and Smell the Flowers book launch party, 8/25/2023

Kayaking Lake Needwood, and a visit to Analog Market, 8/13/2023

Girlfriend in a Coma, live at Tally Ho, Leesburg, Virginia, 8/11/2023

A visit to Great Falls State Park with Tim and Kira, 8/12/2023

A visit to the Hirshhorn and the Smithsonian American Art Museum with good friend, Kent Lewis, 8/11/2023

Raven Rocks hike, August 9, 2023

A visit to Baltimore with Eric to see the Jim Henson exhibit, August 4, 2023

Clay and Metal Loft art camps, summer, 2023

Joe Hisaishi and his orchestra performing Miyazaki classics at Wolf Trap, 7/15/2023

a very splotchy day in northern VA

Trinidad visit, summer, 2023

Splotch Monster-making workshops through NALIS, Trinidad and Tobago

Love and Rockets (with opening act, Vinasantos) live at The Filmore, Silver Spring, 6/11/2023

A visit to Lake Needwood Trails, 6/4/2023

The Flaming Lips, live at The Anthem, DC 5/25/2023

abstract/urban photo session with Kent Lewis in DC, 5/14/2023

2023 annual Visit Loudoun Tourism Awards ceremony featuring Kris’ artwork

Sky Meadows State Park, 4/29/2023

Skinny Puppy (with opener Lead Into Gold/Paul Barker) “Final Tour” 40th anniversary show at The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD, 4/19/2023

National Art Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2023

John Chumley exhibit at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, April 8, 2023

Glenstone, March, 2023

Pre-Stop And Smell The Flowers Series With Kris

Art Sound Language grand opening day

A visit to the Delaplaine Arts Center, 2/4/2023

Smithsonian American Museum of Art/Portrait Gallery visit, 1/22/2023

National Gallery Of Art Visit 1/21/2023

Trinidad Visit 2022

Cool Spring Battlefield hike with Beth, Randy, and Brandon.

Featured Works 2022 exhibit, Franklin Park Arts Center

Thanksgiving, 2022

December, 2022 visit to Rocket Frog Brewing Co with Eric

Splotch Monster Island artist talk for Loudoun County Magazine, 11/28/2022

Hanging Out With Dave and Eric in Leesburg, Virginia, December 2, 2022

Kris Loya’s Artist Interview For GRUMP Holiday Market, December 3rd, 2014

VMFA visit, 11/2022

Splotch Monster-making Workshop At VAEA 2022

A Visit To The National Gallery Of Art, DC With Nancy And Hajra 10/23/2022

MSV visit, 10/9/2022

A Visit To The Hirshhorn, 8/3/2022

Sunflowers Show at the Glenview Mansion

John Kane exhibit

Carnegie Museums visit, July, 2022

May Flowers art exhibit at Artists & Makers Studios

Kris (Alcantara) Loya’s Celebration of Life

Kris Loya’s Life Celebration art exhibit at the former Tryst Gallery, Leesburg, Virginia

Splotch Monsters for Ukraine

Kris

Kluge-Ruhe visit 2016

Energy Shields

Hickory Museum of Art visit, 2016

North Carolina Museum of Art visit, 2016

Bluemont, Virginia date with Kris, 2008

NYC, January, 2008

from the "utopia, paintings by australian aboriginal artists" show at the space gallery in pittsburgh, pa, 12/2007 (17)

Leesburg, Virginia walks 2007

Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, 2007

Blandly Experimental Farm, July 2007

Carnegie Music of Art, July, 2007

National Gallery of Art, DC, August 2006

Hirshhorn Museum of Art visit, August 2006

Storm King, Mountainville, NY, 7/2005

Crescent Rock, October 2002

Downtown Charlottesville, Virginia

African Museum of Art, Washington, DC visit, 2018

Hirshhorn Museum of Art, Washington, DC visit, 2018

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC visit, 2018

Delaware, October, 2018 visit

A visit to the ginkgo grove at the Blandy Experimental Farm and Virginia State Arboretum with Kris was in order today.

a visit to the Baltimore Museum of Art

a visit to the Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2018

A visit to Oatlands, Leesburg, Virginia, December, 2018

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania visit, spring, 2019

Wintergreen Resort visit, 2019

a visit to the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, July, 2021

Pittsburgh and Pgh suburbs visit, June 2021

May Flowers Splotch Monster collaborative series with Kris Loya

Gisela Colón: “Quantum Shift” exhibit at the Tephra ICA

a visit to the Phillips Collection 100 year anniversary exhibit, 4/24/2021

Ellanor C. Lawrence Park, April 18, 2021

Appalachian Daydream series

Animals Altered art exhibit, Takoma Park community center galleries, 2018

Ascending series

Holiday Season Splotch Monsters, 2020

Funky Face Splotch Monster series, October, 2020

Micro-scapes, ATCs/ACEOs

Stop and Smell The Flowers series

Chromesthesia Chronicles CD

My Personal Art Collection

Tone Poems

DMV4AU

Universal Language solo exhibit

Visual Music exhibit at 868 Estate

Not So Scary Monsters exhibit

Abstract Paintings, 2018 - present

Endangered Kingdom opening reception at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC, 1/26/2018

Endangered Kingdom meets Splotch Monster Island series

Endangered Kingdom series

Thirty-six Views of Trees I've Known

misc photos 2014

sketchbook drawings 2014

misc photos 2013

Flowers and Monsters creative collaborat

JJ Cromer & Steve Loya mail exchange art collaboration

mixed media_web

splotch monsters_web

photos_web

San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2012

misc 2012

LOCO, VA Vineyards and Wineries

sketches_web

splotch monsters

splotch forms

steve's art 2011

steve's art (2010)

steve's art (2009)

steve's art (2008)

steve's art (2007)

steve's artwork (2006 and before 2006)

Selected Collage Works

misc 2011

misc 2010

misc. 2009

misc 2008

misc2007

misc. 2006 and before 2006

concerts/live shows

Steve's concert tix

Concert, club and art show flyers from shows I've attended

Akron, OH 7/2010

Trinidad 2010

Trinidad & Tobago 2011

Trinidad 2008/2009 visit

trinidad 2007

nyc 7/2006

gammera (my pet turtle)

cool kid art

childhood star wars art

old school steve art

creative collaborations

creative diversions_web

exhibits, press, etc.