Stephen Estrada

” I am intrigued by the American landscape and the intersections where the land meets sea and sky. My work explores nature’s forces, shifting and the ever-changing movements that shape and bend the terrain. Place and time are important to me. Certain spots draw me to them, Half Moon Bay in California, the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, the deserts of the Southwest.”
Stephen Estrada’s paintings come out of his lifelong experiences with the natural environment. Working from his studio in Silver Spring, MD, he creates paintings that evoke movement, light and the changing textures of the land and sea. Estrada grew up in southern California and North Carolina. He attended the Art Institute in Boston and later moved to Washington DC to complete his schooling at the Corcoran School of Art and American University. While continuing his art career Stephen worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. There he encountered artists, such as Albert Pinkham Ryder, Winslow Homer and Abbot Handerson Thayer, who influenced his use of light and painterly approach. He went on to become fabricator and exhibition designer at the American Art Museum, chief of design at the National Air and Spade Museum and later, curator and director of the US Diplomacy Center and Museum at the U.S. Department of State.
Stephen Estrada now devotes full time to his art and has shown in many prestigious solo and group exhibitions on the East Coast. His work is in numerous public and private collections including the Mellon family of Virginia.

After the Storm
After the Storm

Stephen Estrada
Oil on canvas - 72" x 48"
$18,000 read more →

Dawn Light
Dawn Light

Stephen Estrada
Oil on canvas - 24" x 48"
$6,800 read more →

Estrella Mountains
Estrella Mountains

Stephen Estrada
Oil on canvas
Triptych, 18" x 72"
$8,000 read more →

Oasis
Oasis

Stephen Estrada
Oil on canvas - 40" x 30"
$8,000 read more →

Storm Over the Sacramento Mountains
Storm Over the Sacramento Mountains

Stephen Estrada
Oil on canvas - 40" x 30"
$8,000 read more →