Eric Staller
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| Born | September 14, 1947 Mineola, New York |
| Education | University of Michigan |
| Known for | Mixed Media Art |
Eric Staller is an American artist born September 14, 1947. He uses light and architecture as a medium to create and design works of art.
Eric Staller was born in 1947 in Mineola, New York; he is the oldest of five children. His father is a real estate developer and his mother a homemaker. His father's avocation has been architecture, this inspired Staller to study architecture himself.
1971 Eric Staller completed a Bachelor Degree in Architecture at the University of Michigan. Toward the end of his tenure at the University of Michigan, Staller began to create sculptures and performance arts. Merce Cunningham and John Cage had performed at the university at that time and praised artwork that Staller had created. They were the first professional performers to make Eric Staller realize that he was truly an artist. In the fall of 1971, Staller moved to New York City and lived there until 1991. He had purchased an 1829-vingtage Lutheran Church, located in Lyons, PA. Staller used and renovated the church as a weekend retreat until 1991, then decided to move out of New York to live full-time in Lyons, PA.
Eric Staller had wanted to live in Europe after he had visited Amsterdam in 1988 to show his work at an opening of a gallery show. In September 1994 with his wife and son, Staller moved to Amsterdam. Soon after that Staller went through some personal changes with his family and focused on his work as an artist.
In January 1999, at the Schiphol Airport, he had met and then soon after married a Dutch filmmaker, Sietske Tjallingii [1]. Eric Staller lived in Amsterdam for fifteen years before moving back to the United States to the city of San Francisco in 2010. Staller's Dutch filmmaker wife Sietske is producing a film using roadside attractions as backdrops. She will be traveling around the United States to these roadside locations.
1970s
Staller was invited by the director of the graduate painting department at the Maryland Institute College of Art several times in the 1970s to lecture about his work, as well as to give student critiques. In the winter of 1978, he put his abilities to work to light up the Fox Building as it was in the process of being converted from a factory into a classroom building. With the help of students, he filled all the windows with timer-activated lights, which lit up the entire building. The following year he was artist-in-residence in the undergraduate sculpture department at MICA.
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