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Artist Exhibitions:
Lever House,N.Y.-1968
Town of Old Roslyn Outdoor Art
Show-1979
American Crafts Coucil-Martin
Luther King High School,N.Y.-
1997
Washington Square Outdoor Art
Exhibition,N.Y.-1997
Central Park Art
Fair,N.Y.-1998
Firehouse Plaza Art
Gallery-Nassau Community
College, Garden City, L.I.,...
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Artist Galleries:
Representation offered by
Agora
Gallery,Chelsea/Soho,N.Y. 2004
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Private collection of Ms. B.
Frankfurt,N.Y.C
Private collection of Dave and
Susan Rosen,N.Y.C.
Dr. R. Shelton,M.D., N.Y.C....
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Steve Smilen
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Being an addict to something isn't always bad. I am an addict.I don't shoot up, drink, do coke or even pepsi but I am an addict. Do you know what it's like.. to be addicted to something? That came about to grab you very slowly,over time. And viola.. you're hooked.Well, it happened that way to me. Over a period of say 30 years, I tried painting,pen and pencil, paper, graphic design. All well and good. I tried working with wood frames and triptychs. That felt alright too. But one day, after many years of using other mediums to create my art, I evolved.
Like a pupa changing into a butterfly, my art went from working with a pallette of colored paper, canvas of panels of wood to beginning to create with a whole new medium- MOSAICS. No longer is my work in the form of colored PAPER. Instead, I now combine thousands of tiny pieces of glass and stone to create.
All my works are as vivid in their colors and as deep as anything done with paint. I strive to capture the intensity, complexity and inner psyche of the piece.
I show too, the work done in paper mosaic. To show to you the viewer, the evolution that my art has gone through.
I now no longer have the cravings left by unfulfilled creativity. I now am a happily addicted mosacist! I have an awful lot to know in order to master the medium.But I can happily say though, that I have finally found my medium. It's in my blood. I guess it always was.
In addition are samples of my earlier MIRRORED FRAMES which also establishes a progression in the quality and style of my work.Lastly, I've also added a new selection of my color PHOTOGRAPHY.
All my work reflects who I am as an artist and as a person; Intense, stimulating,complex;Very much alive and forever changing.
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