Stephen Talasnik
American,
b. 1954
Originally from Philadelphia, Talasnik is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Tyler School of Art; Rome and Philadelphia campuses. Intrigued with intuitive building as a child, he used toothpicks and Elmer’s glue to recreate scale models of roller coasters from Hershey Park. Attracted to the architecture of space exploration and the aesthetics of aerodynamics he was seduced by black and white images of the early NASA missions that would inform his work over a lifetime of building and drawing.