STEVE OHLRICH

About Steve Ohlrich

Steve Ohlrich is an artist from Chicago, IL and currently makes his home with his family in Palm Desert, CA. After receiving a BFA in studio art at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he received a 4-year certificate of completion in academic realism from The School of Representational Art in Chicago, an Art Renewal Center-approved atelier. More recently, he earned a master’s degree in art education from Texas Tech University.

For the past 20-plus years, Steve has worked as a painter and art educator. He is currently represented by Bowersock Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His work explores the whimsical and mystical aspects of life. He draws from intuition, nature, and a love of drawing and storytelling to compose his paintings.

Steve exhibits nationally and internationally and has a digitized version of his painting, “The Passage,” placed in a time capsule on the moon’s surface with 30,000 other creative professionals from around the world. Steve teaches drawing, painting, and AP art, and is the department chair at a private high school in California’s Coachella Valley.