Steve DiBenedetto: Exploring Decay and Surreal Landscapes Steve Dibenedetto (born 1958 in Bronx, lives and works in New York) studied at Parsons School of Design alongside Steven Parrino in the 1980s. His practice has evolved over the years from linear geometric abstractions linked (tangentially) to the Neo-Geo movement and characterized by blocks of colour, to thickly layered paintings and drawings populated by organic and mechanic forms, octopi, helicopters, Ferris wheels and, more recently, architecture. His early work embraced a minimalist aesthetic—bold squares and rectangles rendered…