Profile
As a form of visual autobiography, these images document a journey of internal and external spaces, dreams from nights past or those yet to be had. Dreaming and wakefulness, like transience and vulnerability, reflect the once strong tree whose bark is now sloughing, like skin from bones, among wood and earth. Surrounded by the natural landscape, each work is a personal encounter, somewhere between dream matter and spiritual entity. Begun in 2006, these explorations continue to engage me today.
These images were created in camera with one negative exposed using a large format pinhole camera and Polaroid Type 55 film. The images are hand printed to 11×14 on 16x 20 paper in silver halide and toned. Twenty prints are made from each negative.
All images are untitled, accompanied by the year the corresponding negative was created.
Selected Exhibits & Presentations:
Lehigh Valley Arts Council, Featured Artist for September/October – 2009
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, NEXT: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers, Philadelphia PA, Juror – Ariel Shanberg, The Center for Photography at Woodstock – 2009
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, “Just Look at Yourself”
Baum School of Art;
M.F.A. Recent Graduates Exhibit, Maine Media College; Rockport, ME – 2009
Night for Emerging Photographers Project Basho; presentation; Philadelphia, PA – 2008
Philadelphia Center for the Photographic Image, PHOTO IMAGE ‘07; Philadelphia, PA – Juror: Katherine Ware
Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition, Patrons’ Award, single image; New Hope, PA – 2007
New Arts Program, Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works; Kutztown, PA 2007-2005
Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition; New Hope, PA – Juror: George Tice – 2005
Binney & Smith Gallery, Banana Factory, “Still Life”; Bethlehem, PA – 2005
Philadelphia Sketch Club, PHOTOgraphy 2004; Philadelphia, PA – 2005
Education
Maine Media College; M.F.A. Photography – 2009; Mentor – Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Baum School of Art; Allentown, PA
Cedar Crest College; Allentown, PA
Kutztown University; B.S. – 1995