Stephen Litchfield

Stephen Litchfield earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Kent State University. His work deals with ordinary utilitarian objects and ideas of perception, memory, and function. He transforms common objects into self-contradictory versions of themselves by conflating familiar form characteristics with alterations of the object’s essential dimensions. The result is an altered object that at once evokes and denies its function.

Litchfield’s work has won several awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Artist Fellowship, and three Individual Artist Fellowship/Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council. Litchfield currently serves on the board of directors at SPACES Gallery in Cleveland. He lives and maintains a studio in Ravenna, Ohio.