12 Facts About Steve Poleskie

The son of a high school teacher, Poleskie graduated from Wilkes University in 1959 with a degree in Economics.

Steve Poleskie remained in Florida only three months before leaving for the Bahamas and Cuba.

In 1962 Steve Poleskie took a studio on 10th Street in New York City.

Rather than join the ranks of the Abstract Expressionists, Steve Poleskie enrolled in art classes at The New School with the figurative painter Raphael Soyer.

At the time, Steve Poleskie had abandoned his abstract painting and was doing figurative work.

When Steve Poleskie had his first one-person show in New York at Morris Gallery, Soyer bought a painting.

In 1963 Steve Poleskie opened a screen-printing studio in a storefront on East 11th Street.

In 1968, wanting more time to devote to his own art, Steve Poleskie sold Chiron Press and accepted a teaching position at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

Twenty-seven years after he began to fly, in 1998, having reached the age of sixty, and feeling his body could no longer take the excessive G forces imposed on it by the aerobatic maneuvers, Steve Poleskie ceased flying altogether, and sold his airplanes.

Since 1998 Poleskie has been devoting himself mainly to writing fiction, including a biographical novel on the Civil War Balloonist Thaddeus S C Lowe.

In 2004 Steve Poleskie took up digital photography, and had his first show of these images in Ithaca in January 2006.

Additional information on Steve Poleskie can be found in Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World, and on his web site, www.