ARTIST’S STATEMENT

At the beginning of the twentieth century there was a growing dissatisfaction with the photographic establishment. These photo-secessionists rejected trivial detail and employed special printing processes and compositions that lessened the detail of the finished print and highlighted the art of the picture. Critics decried the manipulation of pictures—the hand of the artist obscuring the eye of the artist—preferring to let the process of the eye and the composition show exactly what is present.

Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vast majority of photographs are heavily manipulated through the use of computers. I am exploring the ways that the hand can once again express the vision of the artist in ways that strict adherence to the most current technology obscures—to tame the computer into being a tool.
I am a master of computers and digital imaging, but choose to reject their behavior in favor of minimal equipment and chemistry that was available at the dawn of the industrial age. Several of the cameras that I use have no glass or plastic, including lenses. Less technology frees me to use the tool that I use best—my creativity.

EXHIBITIONS

1978     Museum of Natural History, Greenville, DE
1988     Student / Faculty Show, Newark, DE
1989     Red Show, Newark, DE
1989     Kunstwollen I, Newark, DE
1990     Kunstwollen II, Newark, DE
1991     BFA Senior Show, Newark, DE
1991     Earth Day Performace, Washington, DC
1993     25x25, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1994     25x25, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1995     25x25, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1995     And Bob’s Your Uncle, New York, NY
1996     Mixing Messages, Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY
1997     Public Works, Arts Alliance, Newark, DE
1999     Benner Township Fall Festival, Bellefonte, PA
2002     Memorial Show, Arts Alliance, Newark, DE
2002     Holiday Show, Neuveau, Baltimore, MD
2003     Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN
2003     Krappy Kamera V, Soho Photo, New York, NY
2004     Alternative Process I, Soho Photo, New York, NY
2005     Krappy Kamera VII, Soho Photo, New York, NY
2005     …And Death, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
2006     Mandate: A Postmortem Analysis, Gravity Lounge, Charlottesville, VA
2006     does time stand still? Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY [SOLO SHOW]
2006     Krappy Kamera VIII, Soho Photo, New York, NY
2006     SECCA Art-O-Mat, Winston-Salem, NC
2006     Technogaia Paint & Body, Pittsburgh, PA
2006     does time stand still? Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
2006     does time stand still? Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
TBA      does time stand still? Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE

1999–present  Blue Man Group, Venetian Theater, Las Vegas, NV
2004–present  Art-O-Mat, multiple cities, USA & UK

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1990     Kunstwollen by Nora Mulhern, The Review, Newark, DE
1996     Mixing Messages by Ellen Lupton; ISBN: 1-5689-099-X
1997     Gifts, Time Out New York
1998     Runaway Bride, Paramount Pictures
2005     City Lights by Louis Jacobson, The Washington City Paper
2005     Krappy Kamera VII, Camera Arts Magazine
2005     Pinhole camera article, Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung
2006     Photogravure, Pop•In New York
2006     Cyanotypes, New York Sun
2006     Thank You For Not Smoking, May ArtNews

TEACHING
1990     Photo I, Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1991     Color Photo I, Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2002     Kids & Kameras, YWCA of Greenwich, Greenwich, CT [CANCELLED]

EDUCATION
1991     BFA Photography, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1992     NYU Film Production Course, New York, NY
1992     Intern, Blue Man Group, New York, NY
1993     Intern, Meghan Boody, New York, NY
2004     Photogravure, Lothar Osterburg, New York, NY