Artist Information:
Stephen Spiller
Long Island City, NY
United States
Member Since: Jan 2004
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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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Artist Reviews:
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...
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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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Stephen Spiller's Premiere Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Stephen Spiller's Portfolio.
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 so much of what we think, say, and do. That language is uniquely available to photography, revealing itself through non-verbal cues, i.e. things we see like clothing, tattoos, idiosyncratic behavior, and more. Such visual cues carry meaning equally significant to verbal ones. A “Freudian slip”, for example, may be a telling remark, but no more so than messages predicated on how we dress, decorate our bodies, etc. In both situations understanding and/or interpretation is required.
Starting with the idea that individuals continuously send and invite verbal and non-verbal messages, I photograph people in public venues, imagining that I’m capturing those messages – encrypted as they may be, but capturing “something” nevertheless. While precise interpretations can be implausible, in fact they are unnecessary and I’ve adjusted my expectations. I accept that certain realities like sadness, sexual desire, anger, shame, etc. are typically hidden; that presentation and... |
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