Artist Stephen Seemayer has used his own image and the element of fire in his works since beginning his career as a teenager in the 1970s. This work was created in January 2016 at a studio in Downtown Los Angeles in virtual reality, using oil paint and fire brushstrokes.

Here is the video that accompanied Stephen Seemayer’s 2013 “Signs of the Times” exhibit at the District Gallery.

Here is the trailer for “Young Turks,” a feature-length documentary by Stephen Seemayer and Pamela Wilson about artists and life downtown in the 1970s and ’80s.

This is a short documentary about Stephen Seemayer shown during the 18th Street Art Center exhibit “have you seen my privacy.”