Who Am I?

Derek Stenborg

Is a resident of Ellenville since 2020, and he splits his time living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Derek is a conceptual artist, with roots in theater, film & tv design, painting and music writing and performance.

In 2003, Derek joined United Scenic Artists 829 in the categories of Scene Design and Scenic Art. Derek became the Scenic Charge Artist at The Juilliard School in 2003 and taught scenic painting at Brooklyn College.

Moving into commercial projects 2012, some of Derek’s career highlights include: designing the Macy’s “Pop-Up” Holiday Windows, designing and painting on Broadway shows including Spamalot, painting at the MET Opera and on countless TV shows including SNL.

Derek’s design training sprung the idea of photographing old painted signs aka Ghost Signs. Since the late 1990’s, His travels guided him to the wrong side of the tracks, snapping photographs of faded advertising near train routes and industrial neighborhoods that joined towns across America. The grit and texture of peeling paint on brick, rusty metal and wood, began a connection of wanting to know the history of a place. In turn, tell visual stories using the same treatment. His recent work is influenced by years of photographing these signs but also reflects his time spent in the urban landscape of NYC.

In 2018 Derek began making politically themed stickers and street art. His traffic patterns in NYC brought him to places where walls represented many artists, a community of collage, layers of influence, an accidental history lesson. Derek’s recent work called “History Of Coca-Cola,” is a culmination of all these elements.

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