Steve Budington received an MFA in painting and printmaking from the Yale School of Art and a BFA in painting and art history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with additional studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. Budington has shared his work internationally. The artist works as an Associate Professor of Painting at the University of Vermont. Outside of his teaching and studio work, Budington plays improvised music with pantet - a Vermont-based collective, and he designs ecologically-centered landscapes and gardens through his LLC, Steve Budington Studio.
Steve Budington makes work in and about landscapes. Budington’s work emphasizes the physical, symbolic, and optical qualities of paintings; stacked canvases in relief, framing elements, window-like forms, cultural and experiential use of color, signage, and changes in facture and surface. The  abstracted aesthetic framework of his work presents a painted analog to contemporary visual communications; what is physically real and what is illusion? What reveals and what obscures? What’s fixed and what’s in flux? The artist’s work locates an experience of the natural world within these representational and symbolic systems.

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