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Artist Statement:
STATEMENT
In broad terms, I photograph
and write to discover and
understand what I think. More
specifically, my interest is
in making photographs that
stimulate discussion about
human behavior, especially
what I like to call the
complex and common denominator
language of emotion rooted in
our unconscious which is
driving...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Exhibitions
1993 Longwood Gardens, West
Chester, PA
2004 Soho Photo 2004 National
Competition, Juried Exhibit,
Lyle
Rexer, Juror, Soho
Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Borders Books and Music,
New York, NY
2004 Starving Artist Ball,
New York, NY
2005 Los Angeles Center For
Digital Art, Los Angeles,
CA...
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Artist Galleries:
The Bridgeman Art Library, New
York, Paris, London, Berlin
(nonexclusive licensing
Agent)...
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Collections:
Private Collections
1994 Cheryl Carter-Pierce:
Baltimore, MD
1995-7 Ronald Fenstermacher:
West Chester, PA
1997/8 Bart Greenhut: Malibu,
CA
1998/9 Michael and Kathy
Gordon: Los Angeles, CA
2003 Peter and Phyllis Klein:
Fiesole, Italy
2003 Rhoda M. Urman: New York,
NY
2004 Richard and Jane Abrams:
Pacific...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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PRESS RELEASE
New York, New York - At Art Basel Miami Beach, New York Arts Magazine will project a video that includes artist Stephen Spiller's photographs and text rejecting the November 11, 2005 message of Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and Christian Coalition.
Robertson made apocalyptic warnings of God’s wrath to citizens of Dover, Pennsylvania who voted out of office school board members supporting “intelligent design”. On November 11, 2005 Robertson said on his television show, The 700 Club: "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city."
The particular photograph critical of Robertson’s warnings depicts a man staring at young lovers, called transgressors in the artwork, passionately embracing as he walks by. The man is wearing a T-shirt quoting the King James Bible, Chapter 14:6 “ … Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life …”
The artwork’s text calls the man a Crusader, mocking him with words like these: “Despite his steadfast beliefs, oh how he yearns for solid proof that degradation and retribution swing in perfect harmony. Just a glimpse of crispy Sodom would be very reassuring. Or a whiff of Gomorrah’s vapors even better. It’s humiliating how these two transgressors are completely oblivious to his certainty that life’s dance-steps down the high road are so well defined, clear as chalk marks on cement … “
“I think provocative statements like those Robertson makes are no less than a form of terrorism practiced by the leaders of many religious conservative groups to exert control over their memberships and to try and persuade others to accept their views by using irrational, highly charged, emotional statements,” said Stephen Spiller, the artist.
Spiller says he uses spontaneously made “street” photographs and composes text as political and social commentary about contemporary subjects.
Other subjects treated by the artist’s images on the video include sexual “cruising”, divorce and depression. The video will run in the Miami Beach Convention Center at Booth M 17, December 1 - 4 and preview mid-November at www.nyartsmagazine.com.
Contact:Stephen Spiller/srspiller@aol.com
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