Steve Hosch is a printmaker from Gilbert, Iowa, a little bedroom community north of Ames. Other than the two years spent as a frustrated graphic design undergrad, he's a self-trained artist, and a student of the University of Play Around, Make Mistakes & Try Again. Despite that—or perhaps because of that—Steve has managed to exhibit and sell his art around the Midwest.

After years of jumping from medium to medium—everything from carving and hand-painting gourds to assemblage to collage—Steve discovered linocut printmaking in 2016 and fell in love almost immediately with the medium. He takes a certain satisfaction in linoblock printmaking’s lengthy concept-to-artwork process: a sketch is transferred onto linoleum, where the negative space is carved away with hand tools; then the linoleum (aka, the block) is inked and paper is placed atop and pressed; finally the print is pulled, revealing the [hopefully] magic. 

Part of Steve’s attraction to the medium is the graphic, high-contrast, and slightly-varied aesthetic that can be achieved via ink, paper, and pressure. His prints reflect his varied interests and bent sense of humor. At Steve Hosch Art you’ll find everything from cryptids and all things weird-y to the wonders and intricacies of the natural world. Steve works in his not-so-secret underground studio, affectionately called The Art Lair.