Steve Kaufman Lichtenstein

Kaufman's first one-man show was at a bank in the Bronx. The paintings were donated to the Jewish Holocaust Museum of Art in Brooklyn. In 1972, Kaufman was chosen along with nine other students from NYC to participate in a cultural exchange between Japan and the U.S., and was soon awarded a scholarship at Parson's School of Design for fine art and design. Kaufman later enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York and soon met Andy Warhol. Kaufman became Warhol's assistant at The Factory - Warhol's famed fine art publishing studio - Warhol was to have a profound influence over the artist's later work.

The impact of celebrity on contemporary culture intrigued Kaufman, thus famed faces of art, music and film are often the subject of his artwork. Kaufman seeked to discover society's common denominators in his artwork - the elements and individuals who generate an immediate response from the viewer. Kaufman was an artistic journalist commenting on history, both past and present. His dynamic style often combineed images of the world's icons with visual tapestries woven out of landmarks or other related references to their celebrity.