Bio
I grew up wandering the west as my father followed the oil drilling business. I discovered early, and uncharacteristically for my family, that images and words were my foremost reality. A degree in Film and TV led to a career producing video for corporations, while photography and writing stayed alive on the sidelines. Things began to change when New York City (art capitol of the world!) called me, and led to deeper explorations into my own creative reservoirs. After winning a Writer's Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, I moved to the forests of the Catskills in upstate New York, where I live with my wife, artist and maskmaker Wendy Drolma. Together we run a small literary publishing venture, Bliss Plot Press.My current photographic work evolved as I attempted to express the sensuality and duality of places and things in this strange and fascinating multidimensional world.
Gallery Group Shows:
The Living Room Gallery
927 Royal St., New Orleans, LA 1998 - 2001Holiday Gallery
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY Nov-Dec 1998"In/Visible"
Visual Field, Rhinebeck, NY July-August 1997"Life in Motion"
The Sky's the Limit, Kingston, NY June 1997"A Springtime Festival of Artworks"
Alexa Georges, New Orleans, LA April-May 1997
Juried Gallery Exhibits:
"The Figure Revisited" Dec 1998
Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ"Third All Media Works Exhibit"
eklektikos gallery, Washington, DC Feb-Mar 1998"For Adults Only"
Eleven East Ashland, Phoenix, AZ Jan-Feb 1998
Juried Arts Festivals:
Edgewater Arts Festival, Edgewater, NJ, Sep 2000
(BEST of SHOW Award)
Central Park So. Fine Art & Craft Show, NYC Oct 1998
Hudson River Arts Fest, Poughkeepsie, NY Sep 1998
Excellence 5, Works on Paper, NYC Sep 1998
Crafts at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, NY June 1998
Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, NYC May 1998
Crafts on Columbus, NYC Oct '97, May '98
Artisan's Garden, NYC June '96, '97, '98
Education:
B.A., Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1979: Film and TV, Magna Cum Laude
Artist's Statement:
For the past few years, I have been searching for ways to see the unseen--to capture and to celebrate the duality that is the true nature of the world. I feel compelled by the knowledge that nothing is as it seems. I have explored using handwritten text on the surface of the prints, "mini-stories" meant to explode the boundaries of the frame. I have explored mounting one photo over another, with holes cut through to reveal glimpses of hidden surfaces. Today, I am making pictures that merge two images into one, nudes and portraits in which the human body becomes a sensuous window into alternate realities, or where dreamlike juxtapositions whisper a dark poetic dialogue. Projected images meld with the curve of flesh to confound preconceptions: what is Figure, what is Ground? You can't have One without the Other.
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