Steve Alpert is a native New Yorker and fine art painter of a wide range of subject matter including land/sea/skyscapes, military, abstract, and portraiture. Alpert best describes himself as a non-conformist who draws from many different moments in his life that have shaped his work. However, it is Alpert’s Contemporary American Military paintings that are the foundation of his collection and what distinguishes him from many of his fellow artists.Alpert’s work has been exhibited at the home of the President (Biden) and fine art galleries across the United States. His military work is part of the permanent collection of the Pentagon, the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico VA, the Naval War College at Newport RI, the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB, Dover DE, and the Institute of World Politics in Washington DC. Through generous donations of his artwork, Alpert has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for causes that support the men and women of our United States Armed Forces and their families including Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation and Fisher Houses. Most recently he was nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s Distinguished Citizen Award.When the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001 Alpert saw it as a personal calling. He started painting military images. These are paintings Alpert feels compelled to make to honor those who serve, to raise consciousness about men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces. They are created as a way for Alpert to give back and the artist has spent more than two decades trying to make a meaningful and emotive connection between civilians and the military through his art.Commenting on his artwork, Alpert says that being an artist is all about perception. What is your perception about this and how do you translate your experience?” Alpert has also been influenced by some of the Master’s, particularly Henri Matisse, but would say that the German visual artist Gerhard Richter, is his personal aspiration. Alpert describes his work as a cross of impressionist and abstract.