1979 Wind Challenge Artist
Originally from Philadelphia, Talasnik is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Tyler School of Art. In addition to major installations at the Storm King Art Center, he executed site specific installations at the Denver Botanic Gardens and Manitoga, the Russel Wright House in Garrison NY. In addition to a permanent all timber frame structure at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, he has built temporary indoor sets for performance at Tippet Rise, Architektur Galerie Berlin, and will create floating structures for the next Curitiba Biennale at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Brazil. His drawings are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY); The Albertina, (Vienna); the Pompedeu (Paris); National Gallery of Art (Washington DC); and the Kupferstichkabinett (Berlin) to name a few.
