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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. ==Biography== 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.〔Out of My Mind, Eric Staller pg 8〕 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.〔Out of My Mind, Eric Staller pg74〕 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.〔Out of My Mind, Eric Staller pg89〕 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 (). Eric Staller lived in Amsterdam for fifteen years before moving back to the United States to the city of San Francisco in 2010.〔(Eric Staller Moves Back to USA ) Retrieved 1 August 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Staller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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