Stephen Millner
Patience Stone
2014
Mixed media, assemblage photography, sculpture
5" x 7

About the work

The Japanese words Tatemae (do what we pretend to believe so that others will like us) and Honne (do what we truly believe is in our soul) have special relevance for the artist. We are often programmed since childhood toward Tatemae-to be slight in our creative aspirations so as to be popular, rather than insightfully truthful. I was fortunate to have parents who allowed me to create art that was true to my soul (Honne), whether it (or I) was liked or not.

My objective as an artist, then, has been to make art that is true to my creative inspiration, free of artificial value judgments. My mixed media and assemblage work incorporates predominantly recycled items: scraps of wrapping paper, newspaper articles, maps, advertising, photographs, envelopes, signs, stickers, stamps, tags, etc.

About the artist

Stephen Millner graduated from Yale University with a Fine Arts Degree and studied under notable artists as Gabor Peterdi (printmaking), Walker Evans (photography), and John T. Hill (photography). Others were artist Jack Tworkov, art historian Vincent Scully, and cultural icon Buckminster Fuller. He began his art endeavors as a photographer, printmaker, and metal sculptor. His works have been shown in galleries throughout the Mid Atlantic region. Millner was the first President of the Artists of Yardley, serving for five years. His art has been on the cover of such magazines as Prime Number, U. S. 1 Worksheets, and Meadowland Review. The covers of the following books feature his art or art arrangement: Marie Kane's Survivors in the Garden and Beauty, You Drive a Hard Bargain, Israel Halpern's The Way This River Rewinds Itself, and the anthologies The Questions Are Enough, a 2009 collection of poems from Dr. Christopher Bursk's Master Poetry class at Bucks County Community College, and Making Our Own Light, Bucks County Poets Laureate 35th Anniversary issue. Millner has also designed display art for the James A. Michener Art Museum, the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia, the Wildwood International Kite Festival in New Jersey, and the Wright Flight Centennial Kite Festival in North Carolina. Along with his wife, Marie Kane, Millner was the recipient of the Bucks County Muse Award in 2017 for contributions to the Bucks County literary community.

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