J. Steven Manolis, is an American abstract expressionist artist who paints in both watercolors and acryl­ics on paper and canvas. He studied for 30 years under the tutelage of world renown Color Field and Realism master Wolf Kahn (1927-2020). Manolis has been painting for the past 32 years, but his professional painting career began in 2014. Manolis opened Florida’s largest gallery and painting studio, Manolis Projects, in Miami to accommodate the tremendous scale of many of his works. Since becoming a full-time painter in 2014, Manolis has achieved numerous accolades from art critics, such as, Donald Kuspit, who described him as “the successor to the father of global abstract expressionism, Wassily Kandinsky. Manolis is known for his series paintings, which emphasize communication through colors. He, as Hans Hoffman taught, paints what he feels, not what he sees. He employs color-fields, gestures, geometrics, and other symbols to express his perspective of his surroundings. Manolis. is also a well-known philanthropist in the Arts, having served as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the National Academy of Design in New York City and on the Board of Trustees of the Vermont Studio Center.