Equivocal Views

Peeping Tom

EMBARCADERO PHANTASMA

Ironic Ionic , & Screened Fence

Matsushima Bridge

HAPPY HOLIDAYS & Thanks to All of You Who Made My OPEN STUDIO So Successful!

HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIO NOV 24-25 & DEC 1-2

I'LL BE SHOWING NEW WORK AND OFFERING SPECIAL DEALS AT MY HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIO FROM 11:00 TO 5:00 ON SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOV. 24 & 25, & DEC. 1 & 2.

Couple Walking Bryant Park

Shoji Shadow, Lake Kawaguchiko, Japan

Please Visit ProArts EBOS in JUNE!

ProArts East Bay Open Studios 2007


June 2 -3, 9-10 11:00 - 6:00

1173 Sutter Street, Berkeley, CA 94707
(between Eunice & Yolo near the Solano Tunnel; Artist # 38 ProArts map B)
Black & White Prints, Color Prints, and handmade notecards direct from the artist.
Come join me to look at photographs, chat, and perhaps take home a bargain to treasure.

Pro Arts Gallery

Industrial View -- Urban Artifact

Red Light

NYC Street Corner, Morning, 10th Ave.

Exit

Worker On Roof

Restoring The Pont Nuef

Face Lift Pont Neuf

Scaffolded Facade at Night

My open studio was a huge success with lots of traffic
and many satisfied customers.

Since then I have had work accepted into 2 juried shows:

PRO ARTS NEW VISIONS: INTRODUCTIONS 2006
JULY 18 - SEPT 3 2006
GUEST JURORS: DENNIS O'LEARY & GARY SANGSTER

I was honored to be one of 29 artists selected
out of hundreds of applicants for this exhibition.

PROARTS JURIED ANNUAL 2007
Janurary 27 - March 11 2007

Selections by BERIN GOLONU
associate Visual Arts Curator
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA

Berin selected 51 works by 41 different artists.
She selected two pieces from my portfolio which were both from my WING SERIES;

WING SERIES #11 (right) & WING SERIES #35 (left)

ProArts East Bay Open Studios 2006
June 3 -4, 10-11 11:00 - 6:00

1173 Sutter Street, Berkeley, CA 94707
(betw Eunice & Yolo near the Solano Tunnel; E-7 0n ProArts map)
Black & White Prints, Color Prints, and handmade notecards direct from the artist.
Come join me to look at photographs, chat, and perhaps take home a bargain to treasure.

Artist's Statement

For over a third of a century I have been making photographs with the same camera, working in the 35 mm format. I look for beauty, irony, poignancy and metaphor. I am interested in translucency, layers, perforation of surfaces, veiled views, and glimpses of hidden worlds through gaps and tunnels. Frames within frames, doors, windows, gates and mirrors are recurring actors on my visual stage. I am a benign voyeur making up unverifiable stories from snippets of information snatched from an open gate or window.

I am fascinated by photography’s ability to consider and express the passage of time by stopping it or to suggest the past or future in one captured fragment of a second. I am interested in how a photograph may conjure or emphasize a subject by its very absence from the image. The edges of the frame are as important to me as the middle, and what I choose to leave out of the frame is as crucial to the meaning and content as what I choose to leave in. Therefore, I compose very carefully in the camera and always print the full frame.

Ultimately my work is a desire to recognize the unseen. That is, I seek to discover in the mundane a fragment of the world that may have been looked at but not perceived. I want to allow the viewer a moment’s pause to see what is normally so easily missed. My work uses light, texture, gesture, geometry, juxtapositions, and the play of scale and space within the frame. By isolating and combining objects within the frame I can reveal their overlooked importance or suggest new meanings.

The images that I make allow me to pose questions for which there are myriad possible stories. Ideally my work will make the viewer wonder about something instead of knowing it. I suppose this is a more childlike state where less is known and more is questioned. In that sense I find a gentle pleasure in rediscovering the content of my own images and in sharing them.