BIOGRAPHY
Born in Chicago, Illinois, from the age of six months old, I spent my summers on my grandparent’s grain farm in North Dakota. There I learned many things including growing vegetables and flowers. This early experience effected my aesthetic interests in landscape and plants. During my entire photographic artist career, landscape or elements that reference landscape have been part of my main aesthetic theme. My interest in art led me to pursue my MFA and eventually teach at the University level.
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Emeritus Professor Ohio State University USA, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2008, MFA Photography, Univ. Iowa.
Solo exhibitions: Weston Art Gallery Cincinnati, OH, USA, Museum der Stadt Dresden DE, Kalanoom Univ. Damascus, Syria, Galerie Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, Dresden DE., McConnell Art Center, OH, USA, A.I.R. Gallery III, Brooklyn, NY USA
Public Collections:
Museen der Stadt Dresden – Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Germany
LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif, USA
STATEMENT
Wabi-sabi…a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. An aesthetic sometimes described as one of beauty that is ”imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. This aesthetic has become important to me and will continue to influence my work no matter the subject in front of my lens.
TRANSITORY STATES references this through the making of images that discover the visual beauty of aging plant material and applies to all stages we humans pass through as we age.
