Steven Specht Solo Exhibition
“Emergence”
April 5 - May 14, 2021

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​Artist Talk
Saturday, May 8th, 1pm
Artist talk will take place in gym (downstairs of 4 Elements Studio).
Participants can also view the exhibition after the artist talk.
​Artist talk will be socially distanced and temperatures will be checked upon entering.
Appropriate face coverings/masks will be required. Maximum of 30 people total.

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​Artist Bio
Steven Specht is a Signature Member of the National Collage Society and has exhibited his artwork regularly in the annual juried exhibits of the National Collage Society, winning the “Excellence in Collage” award in 2012. He has also shown work internationally including the Climate Gallery in New York City and the 17th Annual Salon of Contemporary Collage in Paris, France. He has been awarded “First Place: Mixed Media” at the New York State Fair Art Exhibit and was selected as one of only ten collage artists internationally to participate in “The Power of N” Project in New Zealand in 2011. He has had solo shows at The Other Side in Utica, Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, The Mohawk Valley Community Arts Center in Little Falls and The Black Gryphon in Elizabethtown, PA. He has also contributed articles to Kolaj Magazine, an international contemporary collage journal based in Montreal. Specht lives in New Hartford and is Professor of Psychology at Utica College.

Artist Statement
“Like most collage artists, I am a collector, an explorer, and an experimenter. I sometimes feel like an entomologist collecting rare and beautiful specimens – in this case the paper ephemera which constitute the elements of my collage compositions. I refer to myself as an ‘analog’ collagist as I do no digital manipulation nor photocopying of elements for my original artwork. The materials I use are taken directly from the books, magazines, calendars, posters and maps I find in various auctions and garage sales. My work might be characterized as ‘surreal’. My hope is that my works are evocative; in that I provide some “narrative” elements, but hope that the viewer feels free to bring her/his own personal
interpretation to the piece. In a way, my pieces are like Rorschach inkblots. When someone asks, ‘What is this piece about?’, my response is likely to be ‘What do you think it’s about?’.”
- Steven Specht