STEPHEN M. BURNS


Stephen Burns has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 22 year ago and in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His influences include the great Abstractionists & the Surrealists including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kankinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini, to name a few. 
Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 7 1/2 years (See Resume). He has been exhibiting digital fine art internationally at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens Gallery in Yokahama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest. 

He is the founder of D5 Digital Visionaries and the current president of the San Diego Photoshop Users Group. Stephen is also the digital lecturer and instructor of the San Diego Natural History Museum, he is the Photoshop instructor for the Shutterbug digital workshops as well as an instructor of photography at UCSD Craft Center Extension. Owner of “Burns Graphics Design,” he makes his living in corporate training and teaching workshops in the use of digital graphics in business applications. Stephen’s expertise also extends into 3D animation and digital video special effects editing on which he also produces educational tapes and DVDs. 

On the fine art level, Stephen has organized exhibitions with galleries and artists from South Africa, Europe, Mexico, and Switzerland. He is currently on a subcommittee for the prestigious Siggraph Convention setting up exhibitions that will include the use of the Internet and traditional venues to house exhibitions in digital art forms.
 

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