Charles Spademan Photography

Charlie Spademan is an artist living in Montclair, NJ. He studied sculpture and painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art for four years from 1974 to 1977, then moved to New York and was part of the East Village music, film and art scene. During this time he appeared in several films in small parts—most notably in Jim Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation, aptly cast as a mental patient. He was the studio assistant and fabricator for artist Chryssa and designed and fabricated systems to display large works on paper by Frank Stella and James Rosenquist. Charlie moved to Montclair NJ in 1995 and focused his practice on hand-forging artistic architectural ironwork which led him to begin creating large scale public artwork. He has shown his painting and photography work and has received numerous sculptural commissions throughout New Jersey and New York. He is currently Artist in Residence at Lackawanna Station / Lackawanna Arts Initiative in Montclair.