Steve Alpert

M-arch Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Steve Alpert. Focusing on Alpert's abstract and landscape paintings.

Born in Manhattan, Alpert spent thirty years as an award-winning television producer and director before shifting his focus to painting in 1999. Working primarily in oil, he developed a practice rooted in close observation while remaining open to intuition, allowing familiar subjects to become vehicles for sensation, memory, and emotion.

Alpert's paintings move between recognizable imagery and more intuitive explorations of color, form, and gesture. Landscapes, water, and sky frequently serve as points of departure, but the works are less concerned with description than with the experience of looking. Layered surfaces, shifting forms, and expressive brushwork allow atmosphere and feeling to become as important as the subject itself.

Although Alpert is widely recognized for his extensive work honoring members of the Armed Forces, this exhibition focuses on another essential dimension of his practice, where painting becomes a space for contemplation, and the external world is transformed through imagination and feeling.

Alpert's commitment to veterans and military families extends well beyond his paintings. For the last nine years, he has led a painting workshop for veterans through Fordham University's Veterans Initiative, and his charitable donations of artwork have raised nearly half a million dollars for veteran service organizations, including Children of Fallen Patriots and Fisher House. His longstanding dedication to honoring those who serve has also led to his nomination for the Distinguished Citizen Award by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

While this exhibition offers a different perspective on Alpert's work, that same underlying sense of attention and reverence remains present. Whether painting the natural world or creating more intuitive compositions, Alpert approaches his subjects with a belief in painting's capacity to create connection, preserve experience, and invite reflection.